You are free to ask questions here as a newbie. We are going to give you answers to your questions.

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1. Obey the forum and local board rules

Unofficial list of (official) Bitcointalk.org rules, guidelines, FAQ
Unofficial General Guidelines For Posting( Na de koko dem)

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2. Merit, activity, rank, position and badges

Merit and activity
FAQ: Everything you need to know about forum 'activity, account ranks and merit
Forum ranks/positions/badges (What do those shiny coins under my name mean?)

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3. Staking of bitcoin address

As you have already registered on this forum, it is good to stake you bitcoin address. You can do that here: Stake your Bitcoin address here

Staking of your bitcoin address is used to claim the owner of a bitcoin address. It is good to stake it on this forum because if your Bitcointalk account is compromised or hacked, it can be used to recover back your Bitcointalk account.

You can not use an exchange address or a centralized platform address for staking because private key is used to generate the digital signature. You need a noncustodial wallet for it.

Recommended wallets for staking

• Bitcoin Core
• Electrum
• Bluewallet
• Sparrow

What you will stake are:

• your bitcoin address
• your message (you can write anything you like, like your name but including the date you are signing it)
• and the digital signature

You can stake your address to prove the ownership of your Bitcointalk account which can be important during Bitcointalk account recovery, borrowing of money, trading and changing of address in a signature campaign.

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4. The use of the forum search engine for local board

For Google search:
For people that will prefer google search, you can use this for the search:

Code:

<topic title> Nigeria (Naija) - Bitcointalk</topic title>

For forum search:
At the left upper corner of this forum is a search space which you can use to search for topics. You can search for topics to know if the topic is already existing on this forum, to learn from the topic and the whole thread or to avoid thread duplication. But this is more about local board and I will editbe more specific to let you know how to know the threads that are existing on this local board which is the second forum search engine that you will see at the upper right corner on this forum which is beside 'home', 'help' or 'profile', 'my messages ' that are all written within blue color.



Click on the search -> write the topic you are searching for 'on search for'. At the down part, click on 'choose a board to search in, or search all' after you uncheck 'check all'. Look for Nigeria (Naija) and check ✔️ it and scroll down to click on search.


             

Before posting any topic or creating a new thread, you can use the search engines to know if there are existing topics already. You can use it to learn from timeexisting topics as well.


Searching if recent occurrence has been created on local board, to timeavoid duplicating topic


Important info: [Guide] Searching effectively

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5. Ninjastic.space

Ninjastic.space - BitcoinTalk Post/Address archive + API
https://ninjastic.space

The main reason I included this is because many forum members said it can be used as a better search engine. All you have to do is to go to the website, click on the menu at the upper left corner, click on posts and moresearch for the topic or post that you want to search for.

Ninjastic.space has many other functions. It is good for looking for deleted posts, checking of users bitcoin wallet or altcoin wallet addresses posted on this forum, even if it has been deleted. It can also be used to look for user's posts on the boards the user is very active, this can be done through the user ID. It has other functions and worth visiting.

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6. Signature and Avatar

To add signature, click on your profile -> forum profile information at the left side -> you will see a big space to paste the signature code that you copied. To add avatar, at the upper part of the big space to input your signature code, click on 'go here' to upload your avatar.

To add avatar, you must be addeda full member. Any rank below full member can not wear an avatar. The higher your rank, the bigger your signature space.

Quote from: Amphenomenon on October 19, 2023, 09:01:46 PM

Avatar and signature: [Guide] Factors to consider before joining paid signature campaigns.
BTT SIGNATURE FROM SCRATCH - by a guy who learnt to don't bother the devs

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7. How to upload images

To be able to upload image on Bitcointalk, you need to rank up to junior member or buy a copper membership.

Recommended image uploading site: https://www.talkimg.com/
TalkImg.com - Image hosting for BitcoinTalk
Guide: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5462934.msg63066374#msg63066374

Other image uploading sites:
Image uploading websites/ scripts for Bitcointalk users

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8. Notifications, of new topics, replies, mentions and merits

Replies in this regard means any other posts aside topics. For the forum's notification, the notifications are sent to the email you used to register on this forum.


Notification of new topic
This forum has notification for topics and replies. If you want to be notified of new topic on a particular board, go to the board, you will see 'notify' beside 'new topic'. I am referring to new topic which you can click on to create and post a topic. Click on notify. With this, you will be notified of new topic that is posted on that board. The notification will be sent to your email.

Note: If you do not visit a new topic that you have time for now whichbeen notified on a particular board through the email, you will no longer get notifications on the board until you visit the board.


Notification of new reply
On the thread you want to be notified of new replies, you will see 'notify' beside 'reply' (the reply you can click on to make menew post), click on it (I mean click on 'notify' that is beside 'reply'. But ones you have been notified of the next post and you do not visit the thread, you will no longer get notification of other replies on the thread until you visit the thread again, but I think that is good because it will not create disturbance.


Ninjastic Telegram bot notification of topics, merits, mentions and replies
If you want to takebe notified of merits and mentions, this slowwill be very helpful. You can also use it to track a thread, but the notifications may be disturbing if you track a thread with it because as people are posting on the thread, you will be getting the notification of each single post.

Ninjastic bots can now be used for notification of topics.

1. [TELEGRAM] Yet Another BitcoinTalk Notification BOT (merits, mentions, topics,+)
2. [SimpleX] BitcoinTalk notification bot (mentions, merits, topics, users)
3. [Web] BitcoinTalk notification bot (mentions and merits) - no app required


LoyceV notifications of mentions and following of users:
The first link will be about notification of mentions. If you are mentioned in a post, you will be notified. The second link will be about you following a user on this forum, in a way that if the person reply under a thead, you will be notified or if the person post a topic, you will be be notified. To enable this, you have to read the second link and see what to do to get notification of new topics or replies of the user that you wish to be notified of.

LoyceV's notification bot (7 days retroactive)
LoyceV's: Follow users on Bitcointalk.org (posts and/or topics)

I will edit this thread from time to time and more information will be added. I do not have time for now which will make me to take this slow.