OP, who exactly are you accusing of giving merits to their "friends"? From what I've seen, it's mostly the shitposting bounty hunter families that do that, and a lot of those idiots have been tagged. Those people wouldn't dream of giving merits to people who make posts that deserve them.
How do you know who merit sources are "friends" with anyway?
He doesn't. He's just one of those 'the rich keep getting richer' idiots who wants to have a whinge because nobody is going to merit his half-assed posts.
Since the introduction of this merit policy, I have been following how people with merit source award the merit. One thing I have observed per the given out of this precious merit is that most people award this merit on the basis of "whom you know or who knows you". Just a few people are going by the actual brain or principle behind the institution of this merit policy. A lot of people with the merit source just share the merit among themselves forgetting about the intended purpose. At times, you could see that a certain post deserves to be rewarded because of its importance to the forum members but the otherwise happened. Now my question is "Is the merit really rewarded based on merit or whom you know?
Please I need your observations on this merit policy and its distribution.
Yes, this is how it works and we don't like people muscling in on our patch trying to take away our precious merits.
You haven't got any merits because you're a bounty hunter making average-to-shit posts. You're also plagiarising content:
Blockchain is a shared public ledger on which the entire Bitcoin network relies. All confirmed transactions are included in the block chain. It allows Bitcoin wallets to calculate their spendable balance so that new transactions can be verified thereby ensuring they're actually owned by the spender.
https://bitcoin.org/en/how-it-works