Quote from: kxwhalexk on Today at 10:03:08 AM

Last month, I was addicted to bitcointalk. I kept posting 5-7 articles every day. A lot of time on the forum every day.

Initially, my goal was to become a Hero Member/Legend Member as soon as possible.I even asked the stupid question of whether merit can be bought or sold.

After that, I get merit as much as possible according to my goal, such as
1.Participate in some reward topics
[Merit] Help newbies and those who have a little left to the next rank
[Merit] Hey Bitcoiners! Can You Send Encrypted Messages?

2.Publish some knowledge I just learned to get merit, even though I didn’t fully understand it myself
Asymmetric encryption（signature）--DSA（A novice explanation）
Asymmetric encryption--RSA（A novice explanation）
It may be difficult to understand this knowledge without programming skills. I just published this knowledge simply by performing mathematical calculations.

As I read more and more posts in bitcointalk, the more I feel that I know very little and the more knowledge I need to learn.

In the past month, I spent 8 days and 10 hours on the forum.In other words, in addition to sleeping and eating, most of my time is spent on forums.I read a lot of posts, and sometimes I even check someone’s historical posts for a long time.

This is really interesting. This forum has a history of 10 years. There are a lot of stories and love, hate waiting for me to discover.I really like this time to look through old posts.

So what I want to tell newbies is, read more and then reply.

Only in this way can we better understand and integrate into the forum.

Taking this opportunity to thank those who have helped me and corrected my mistakes.

（Special thanks to DdmrDdmr's statistics website：Bitcointalk Merit Dashboard）

I am very grateful to those who affirmed me:@The Pharmacist,@DdmrDdmr,@Ratimov,@LoyceV,@Welsh,@lovesmayfamilis etc.

At the same time, thanks to everyone in the forum for their dedication and contribution！

Yeah it does make sense. Most of the newbies and beginners here on Bitcointalk are just focusing on the topic title and replied immediately without actually reading the whole thing. It’s really important for us to understand the whole topic first before replying to the thread. By the way, you’re doing great in this forum. Keep it up and bring more value to the community!