- As far as i know, it'll be permanent. Seen some other badges here too ~"~
How do you know it will be permanent? What other badges do you mean? Could you enclose the picture?
As far as I know, those are the first badges got from forum competition. CMIIW!!!!
A simple google could have answered that but anyway, here's a link which will answer your doubts and also some of mine
: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178608.0 Cheers