I've read this Medium post entirely and it is very interesting. It is called social engineering scam. Good to know all tricks these scammers are up to. If they are doing that it means a lot of people are falling in these traps, so every warning is very welcome.

Exactly, a new fork coin would be totally hilarious unless someone would build up the infrastructure to provide the same storage facility as SIA. People get so much lost into the crypto casino that they totally forget the reasons of the various coins to exist - at least they should remember that for the coins which actually have have a well defined reason to exist.

Well, I would add the suggestion to avoid buying an altcoin when it has already surged 10X or 100x since then the risk to buy the top is too high, as well as to avoid selling an altcoin after that it has already lost 90%-99% since you would likely be selling the bottom.

Did you want Far West? That was Satoshi's view by the way. And Far West you get.
People often forget that freedom is actually freedom, which mean also scammers and gamblers are free to play their cards.

That is actually a quite interesting analysis. Mining echosystems are getting more and more complex and it is a big challenge to discover the industry's best practice. The alternative in some cases could be to see the whole project fail, so I think such an analysis is welcome.

That's great! It means buying now ensures a 10X over investment as soon as NEO achieves again ATH. And unless the project fails and or the whole crypto world collapses or the world will be hit by an asteroid or a solar flair or all these things together - that will happen one day for sure. So better relax and invest.

I too would much appreciate a page which I could check now and then for keeping up with the updates without having to lose too much time - as following BCT threads or telegram chats implies.

OK, I thought I had seen all in this forum but THIS...
Until now I have been generally positive about the merit system - even though it is not very favourable for me personally, but I can live with that - I thought it would really help the forum by separating quality from garbage.
But then... you have posted this.

Well, a message with zero words is really minimalistic indeed. I wonder if there are other gifs with zero words which which have got merited. We may discover that saying something is possibly NOT the best strategy to raise in rank If confirmed, that could be a terrific discovery for all those shitposters who cannot write in English but they do post nevertheless in abbundance. Suddenly they may chose to adopt this strategy which doesn't require being able to communicate with words and sentences.
Let's get ready for a tsumani of GIFs on the forum - Lol

This is a quite terrible story. You supposedly made the mistake to buy at the top of the market. It happens. The only mistake that you have to avoid now is to sell everything at the bottom. This would be the final catastrophe. Now you just have to patience for the day where the market will go up again. It wost likely will, in some months or in some years. And then you will have your money back. And possible more.

Is it really necessary to pimp the name of Bitcoin to give a better image to your new coin? I mean, there are so many different names one can invent by combining the letters of the alphabet. To use the word Bitcoin is deceiving, since I understand that Bitcoin Supreme is not a fork of Bitcoin. I'd be thinkimg at a rebranding in your place.

I'm fully endorsing the new change, which I have always thought should have been introduced even earlier. There are really too many spamming accounts and the lowest level spam has actually risen in the past months. I'm speaking about those posts which have NOTHING to do with the threads they are posted in - and they are probably made by the way of bots and they pollute every thread.
I don't care if I'm becoming a Newbie again. My posts are probably too average to get merited, but that's it, I take it easy and I'm quite indifferent to rank. It would be much much worse to see all those herds of shitposters saying nothing often out of place and in a broken English ranking up to Legendary status and thus turning this whole rank system into a total farce.

Bitcoin is of course the safest option, but it won't give you 100X as the right alts could give if you are able to pick the right ones. Some coins like DeepOnion have lost almost 99% from ATH, they could be an exciting gamble.

Everyone sooner or later has gone through the stage of being a panic seller - as well as a FOMO buyer. But intelligent people learn from their mistakes.

Fashion pays a big role in this. New coins/tokens trigger phantasies in investors and opportunities in speculators, and so they can easily get pumped. But sooner or later they get eventually dumped. And older coins - the good ones - will strike back

These sort of options have been already discussed and the conclusion is that they make no sense. The merit system as it is has a lot of problems, but without it the problems for the forum would be even bigger, and random changes to the system would also only make things worse. Not an easy problem to deal with.

I agree, the article has too much missing info. Of course for speculators it could be seen as scary scary to see such big amounts of BTC been moved around, but isn't Bitcoin supposed to be a currency, ie money that people should freely move around? It is paradoxical that this is creating fear in the community instead of joy

Less than one page of thread after almost 2 months? Not a rocking start I would say. Does the BigTangle project still stand?

The problem of trading merit is not only due to the people eager to buy it, but also to some of the high ranking people who got a lot of smerits to start with which they would have never managed to get by the way of their REAL merit. The low quality of some of these people is now confirmed by the fact that they are selling those smerits which they didn't deserve at all. They would never sell them if they had earned them by the way of good posting.

Sorry, but the old guy in the road is only using cash, his Brother is deep into EOS and the neighbor is just piling up little gold bars.
The real issue is adoption and without adoption you don't exist. To use the "brand" of Bitcoin, just adding a "real" won't help. IMHO.