Quote from: tranthidung on April 06, 2019, 03:31:01 PM

With the cost of $15 per merit, it means that a Member need to spend $1350 for more 90 merits to become a Full Member. <..>

Well the sellers portafolio sell that type of accounts for way less, in the upper two digit zone. Not surprisingly, the reviews on the profile state "good delivery" ... rings a bell ...

Quote from: AdolfinWolf on April 06, 2019, 01:52:43 PM

<>Also, each merit given has to come from somewhere. With the airdropped merits become less and less every day, this "merit" selling thing from account farmers will naturally become scarcer and scarcer to observe.

I still think there is still a large potential aggregate stashed out there though:

Quote from: DdmrDdmr on March 31, 2019, 01:16:03 PM

If we update the figures Ive drawn-up in the pastconcerning sMerit circulation, we get:

600.000 sMerits Initial Airdrop
-350.129 sent sMerits (Merit Sources and regular forum members)
+175.065 Min estimate generated (first halving taken to its maximum theoretical degree, and not accounting for all the other halvings which I cannot estimate)
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424.936 Total unsent sMerits (aprox. *)

(*) Not all is really sendable really, due to inactive users, banned users, and so forth.

Now Merit Source pool is currently of 20.855 sMerits per 30 days. Being conservative, and taking into account that the pool size has varies over time, lets say a bare minimum average of 12k has been sent each month since the beginning of the Merit System. That would mean that at least 180.000 of the sent sMerits were originated by Merit Sources .The remaining 170.129 (350.129 180.000) would come from the Initial Airdrop and halvings.

So even in the best case scenario (no halvings), there are around 600.000 170.129 = 429.871 airdropped sMerits in user accounts (*).

After 15 months of the Merit System, I dont know how likely they are to come into the scene, but they also constitute a risk for merit trading. I would think that, after 15 months on non-usage, they should be withdrawn from the accounts on the basis of avoiding risks and not being into the Merit game anyway.