How many posts per day count towards activity and rank up? Is there a limit?
What is the difference between activity and posts?

I am noticing my posts do not match my activity numbers.

When you make your knowledge-base, be sure to let people know that your rank does not raise over time. I joined over three years ago. I lurked instead of posting for the most part. I recently got tired of being marked Newbie and started posting.

Also, can newbies get merit at all?

I can vouch for swing trading. It's more fun than day trading as you don't have to sit there staring at the screen the entire time, no FOMO for having a life, and it's safer when you're new.

You can do swing trading as low as $100 and still do nicely. In fact, I would suggest starting low so you don't lose much if you make a few mistakes. Once you are profiting regularly then you can go ahead and get more coins to toss into your swing trading. The prices fall around December-February as folks sell off for tax reasons, so you should have a solid grasp on things if you start with $100 right now.

Personally I would suggest a popular alt coin instead of bitcoin or Etherum initially. Staking coins are more stable at the second with things like Ripple and Beancash doing fairly well for Hold and swap alike. Litecoin is a popular non-staking coin as is Doge, though both can be less stable.

When I was day trading I did it sober. I figured if I was getting tired or losing focus it was a sign I needed a break. Get up, walk around, maybe use the restroom or get a snack. The body has ways of telling you what it needs. It's wise to listen to those signs instead of ignoring them. Your health is worth more than a few bucks on a trade.

Wait a few more months. Save up! Bitcoin prices always fall in December-February due to tax season and people selling things off for tax reasons.

I have the opposite problem. Talking about Crypto results in people with inaccurate knowledge driving me batty.

When I talk about crypto either I hit a kool-aid drinker or they turn into a FUDer. The kool-aid drinker is so wild about crypto they can't see straight (typically these folks lose out from being blindly devoted to something) and won't shut up about crypto much to my annoyance. They just DON'T STOP! I enjoy crypto, yes, but it has been three solid hours of you ranting. Can we talk about something else please?

The rest of them look around online, find FUD, and then go FUD-fest on me. This forces me to explain and clarify things I do, why I'm not falling for a scam, and what measures I take to stay careful. Only showing them positive results can make the FUDers stop. If I say anything again, they research again and the FUD train keeps on rolling.

That is the 100% truth. Also adding in that none of the above are fully good or bad. A decline can signal a good time to buy. A raise can mean over-valued and a potential for loss. Stability is dull but nothing bad is happening for the most part even though no new opportunities are appearing, either.

I believe there is no such thing as a bad market. It's all in how you use the market.

Red is a buyer's market. All coins are discounted! Short selling is feasible. Loans become good as now you don't have to pay back as much as you took out thanks to deflating coin prices.

Green is a seller's market. All coins are going up but might be overpriced so buy with caution. Those who bought during the red are now making money. Mining is profitable.

I could not find a clear link to fees and subscription information on the site without signing up. Did I miss the link? Link address?

This information really should be available without signing up.

What are the fees with this platform? I do not see them listed anywhere. Also how much is a subscription?

I prefer to know the fees and subscription prices before I sign up. This helps me decide if a platform is right for me.

I'm glad someone else sees this. Honestly, I expect prices to go a bit lower before correcting. This is because the yearly price shifts for tax reasons have not hit yet and things are still unstable in Asia.

I think the Asian influx really is part of what drove the bubble complete with price manipulators and new uneven trade prices coming in. Laws appearing in Asia is what killed it coupled with the fact that right now most cryptocurrency sees zero actual use outside of investing and gambling.

Actual use cases generally improves the crypto market. I think less manipulation from Asia plus ETH and ETH based tokens being used in actual non-gambling games and various non-betting platforms is why things are starting to improve. As BTC is still the de facto buy and trade currency for most coins, as ETH rises so will BTC. If ETH ever gets one really big breakout platform/game using either ETH or an ETH based token, then the price of crypto in general will soar. It may even flip to ETH being the de facto trade currency!

For now, though, I am worried about the number of junk tokens appearing on ETH that don't actually do anything. They aren't part of a game, platform, or service. They aren't used by anyone. This may tank ETH if it keeps up. Those use cases are always, ALWAYS important!

Here's a simple solution for cryptocurrency woes: use what you buy.

When stuff is just there to be there it doesn't have a value outside of people hoping to sell it. This means nobody but investors will buy it, so as soon as the coin isn't shiny and new anymore it's worthless. When stuff does have a use, people will want to buy it. This causes the market to grow.

Only buy coins you yourself actually use for things that aren't investing. "Normal people" uses are best. Things like, say, paying for your web hosting: not gambling or anything involving TOR!

If enough people use cryptocurrency as an actual currency then the market naturally will improve. Be the change you want to see.

I'm in the camp that tried day trading and didn't like it. You have to be there ALWAYS or you will miss out. If you want a life and don't bot, you're sunk.  

And then there's the fact that the best way to do day trading is with a lot of coins so even small ups can net a profit. Of course large amounts on the line also makes it even riskier.

I short term hodl, reassessing two or three times a month. This allows me to react to changes and gain money without having to have a ton of time tied up in something super risky. I also have some longer term hodl that is reassessed every six months. This lets me have a cushion just in case something goes wrong.

Many people really underestimate low liquidity. A coin can be so hard to trade it's unusable, so easy to inflate/deflate it's basically a scam waiting to happen, or even just die out and turn worthless. It's very, VERY dangerous!

Another warning: the harder people are promoting it, the more risky it becomes. Pump and Dump is everywhere, especially on newer coins or ones with lower liquidity. Usually it starts with a lot of astroturfing about how awesome a coin is and/or how it's "going to moon" and ends in a lot of broke people.

Honestly, I'd tred carefully with anything under two years old, especially if it has low liquidity. CoinGecko is a good place to check this stuff.

Lastly, doing the research can be a problem in and of itself. The astroturfing can get pretty bad and whitepapers don't make for newbie friendly reading. Unfortunately the research is needed for a wise investment...

Whoever you are, you aren't from Minds' staff. You're clearly a Steemit user and trying to use Minds to make money. Frankly, Minds is not supposed to be like Steemit and encouraging people to turn it into another commercial mess like Steemit won't help anything.

1) The tokens are a token (riding on ETH no less) with a specific use in mind, not a generalized crypto currency.

2) They aren't made to be resold. You can't even resell tokens you get from activity. It was literally against the TOS up until this month and now the TOS warns against trying it.

3) Steemit culture is all about making money. Minds is about spreading info. When you try to make Minds into Steemit you lose what made Minds special. If you want steemit, stay on Steemit.

Last I looked it was visa only or bank transfers, so you're not alone there.   On the bright side they are VERY reliable!

Everyone knows about Cryptsy the exchange and a few people know about their cloud mining service, Mintsy (currently in beta).

About a month ago I set up a worker, gave Mintsy my Cryptsy address for automatic coin transfers, and rented two rigs with an average of over 5 THS. I split my worker between UNB and BTC and waited. With both rigs running for 12 hours I got only .00000002 BTC on my account and nothing else. The mining calculator said I should have gotten around .028 in BTC alone from the 4.5 THS mining BTC. I checked my Cryptsy account and saw no transfers in so I knew my balances aren't ending up there- everything had been rejected.  I alerted the company and pretty much got a reply of"we know there's an issue and are working on fixing it before we get out of Beta" and that was all.

Well, seeing that things were borked, I didn't put any more money in and didn't aim anything at my worker. I figured that if they were aware of this bug and NOT warning people it was a shady signal and to keep away until it's launched if I return at all. A couple days ago coins started coming in to my Cryptsy account as if I was mining. I have received no messages that explain what this is. My account says some of it is a refund, but not all!

So here I am, mining with no miner on Mintsy and somehow making coins with a 100% reject rate. Is anyone else seeing weirdness like this?
Do you think it's a bug, Mintsy finally repaying me for the lost time, or a red flag of pyramid scam?

Screencaps for proof below. I edited them for space reasons and to help highlight information.
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The following was only edited to add the black line showing the month cutoff and to note what is old and what is new.
I didn't remove or add anything else.
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Many people bought in before launch when they couldn't see the code. On top of it, GAW didn't warn them that things weren't going to be 100% ready at launch and that the launch was actually an unmarked open Beta instead of a fully-finished product. The hype made it sound like everything was going to be at least basically functional within a month of launch and that there were real partners backing the coin. Nobody knew it was all fake and just assumed that they just didn't know all the details and that there would be clear info at launch (which is pretty common when a site is being released, actually).

The rage from GAW fans when they saw that they were misled was very real which led to the heavy censorship GAW is infamous for.  If not angry, they were confused and kept hoping they hadn't been hoodwinked and that it was just a "rough launch". The first month was full of dealing with the fallout from the bad launch. Even worse, a month or two after launch the TOS changed to absolve GAW of any responsibility in the coin and GAW didn't warn anyone that they changed it. Anyone who didn't cut and run within the first month pretty much was screwed.

As scams go, it preyed upon previous goodwill from looking like it was doing good work. Zencloud (mining owned by GAW) looked legit from the outside and people were making money slowly but surely from mining there. Everything was working as it said it would, so when the reliable-seeming GAW was making a coin of it's own and then started pumping hype in a lot of publications, naturally people got excited and wanted on board.

Can you blame people for wanting to jump on board what sounds like a good deal from a company that had not previously ripped you off? After all, people keep going to Walmart because they are "happy" with that they bought and don't care/believe that the company itself is a little shady even though Walmart has been known to sell counterfeit goods, abuse welfare while dodging taxes, and treat their workers badly.  How could a company that has made them happy and is respected by their friends/family be bad? Same principal with GAW.

It's just a case of people choosing money over ethics (on both sides!) or just plain not knowing/believing GAW had any shadiness because GAW had been good to them. In short, humanity isn't that dumb, however, it is selfish and tends to trust those who have been good to them over strangers. It's sad that common human survival instincts are a scammer's best friend.

They already are. The value has dropped today from almost a dollar to about 15 cents and falling. Unless it's a massive dump and grab (not unlikely considering this coin's track record) people have finally wised up.

I'd like to second multicoin support. It would be amazing if you could choose any coin you want that uses a similar wallet. I know UnbreakableCoin, for example, uses a similar wallet.

The ability to use a "blank" version to add your own CSS.

Code in clearly-labled chunks with tons of comments to make reading and using it easier. I hate when people don't notate their code!

Ability to only have the faucet appear once user completes a task. For example, click and drag an icon, watch the short ad video, get a multiple-choice question correct, or click three links (waiting between clicks) to make the faucet appear.

Have SweetCaptcha as an alternate captcha to the Google Re:Captcha.

Option to hide the faucet if adblock is on.

Randomized payouts for a "game" feel. Be able to choose how often (in percents) that the user gets each reward. The system adds up and will not let the user save the settings unless all percentages equal 100. For example, the visitor might win 100 (70%), 500 (25%), or 1000 (5%) Satoshis at random.

The option of having a timer between payouts. The timer will show up on the main page when the user visits to let them know when they can get more.

Set minimum withdraw in order to prevent everything from being eaten by fees. Also ability to set minium withdraw limit and a toggle whether the user or the site owner pays sending fees. Users can select a higher withdraw limit if they want.

Ability to "remember" a user's faucet address so they don't have to input it every time.

Option to have users make accounts so they can play on multiple computers. Also encourages loyalty and enables things like being able to send a newsletter to users or have different user tiers with different prizes.

Different user tiers with different prizes. Potential qualifications for higher tiers could be: how often they visit in a day, how high their balance is before they withdraw, how many times they have withdrawn, what country they are from (let's face it: USA ad clicks pay more!), how high their withdraw limit is and if they have chosen to pay from their balance to "upgrade" for a little while.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I hope it helps!