With the new 36 sources of merit, I think it will not be so difficult to get merit, I have always tried to maintain the quality of my post, but there are pretty good bounties that ask for too many posts and that increase the chance of making a low quality one, it is also something that can be reviewed. Local boards I think can be improved too, like allocating a weekly resource of merit there for quality posters.

I have never received merit for the post that I've made and I have always tried to be useful or give an opinion if the creator of the post wants one, let's see how this new forum mechanism enhance the forum dynamics

If you want to start earning you can start with airdrops since many of them accept newbies and the usually is a bit less, but you are also gaining experience as a bounty hunter without having to do many weekly posts.

Although it is not advisable to try to predict what may happen in this market, it is always important to realize that cryptos saw a rise in Q4 the last year, so I think that happens because the number of people who receive extra money and intend to spend them on bitcoin or other cryptos of their preference.

I think that ETH would be better for you if you are just going to hodl the next few months and ripple would be something for the long-term, since ETH will undoubtedly remain a very important currency in the next few years, but right now the price of ripple makes it a very attractive investment as it can explode at any time.

I think you have to have a lot of patience, I do not think we see such a big explosion in price as we saw in December, but also remember that the supply of coins is limited, so the more the circulation increases the higher the price will be, if at the end of the year if reaches 10k bitcoin, for me it would be enough.

NEO is a currency that is still passing under the radar, although its price does not impress much at the moment, I think it has a lot of potential, especially if as many say, becomes a serious competition for ethereum, that would bring a ton of innovation to the market and that can be very beneficial.

Until the money keeps flowing and ICOs come out every day, what can happen is that bounty managers get stricter with the rules, we all want to be paid more for the campaigns, but that means creating better content too, although there are fewer ICOs that come out now they usually are really good projects.

I think ETH is down enough, and in fact, we are already seeing a readjustment of the market, prices are back around $200 so we can say we are recovering, it would not be a bad time to invest if you have not already done so.

I think it's going to increase, but I don't see that increase in these next few years, remember that ripple wants to be implemented as a favorite currency by banks and that can take quite some time, from 2 to 3 years, so if you invest in ripple it's a long-term investment.

I think the only reasonable fear we can have is that the main objective of cryptos will be diverted and we will end up following the money alone, no matter what technology and what you wanted to achieve, let's just be guided by money and end up without the philosophy that started it all.

We still see too much volume to even think that could happen, there are many markets that have periods of decline like this, but they always recover, probably within 3 years we will not have the currencies we have now, but the market is always evolving constantly, so the next will be better.

It depends on how much they rely on the ETH platform to make their transactions, there are many ec-20 tokens that are very tied to ETH and without a doubt their value will fall with ethereum, but there are also others that are worthwhile and work independently, those do not think they will affect much, although this bear market affects us all.

I think this is the first thing we recommend to the people who enter the market, do not be carried away by the FUD, do not be carried away by the FOMO and always make decisions with a cold mind, so you have to divide the emotions of business because they never end well.

I think that if you don't want to risk a lot. the best thing you can do is buy coins at a good price and do hodl, for example, everyone knows that there are coins that will go up in price as ETH, that's why you buy it when it's worth $250 and sell it in December when it's probably worth $500, you can also try to trade, buying bitcoin and some alts that fluctuate a lot in a week, you can try to generate profit if you predict the market well.

I wouldn't say it's better, both aims to different markets, ETH is a very good development platform and aims more to be a software company and bitcoin serves very well to make transactions and to serve as a long-term investment, both are very good in their environment and work quite well, if you want to invest the best is 50/50 so you can diversify your portfolio.

So far I have had a moderate success with bounties, they almost always pay at the end, even if the tokens lose value quickly, you can still get some benefit, with airdrops if I have not had very good experience, because after each week the price falls to a value that is not worth the time.

very interesting as in 2015 they called ethereum a shitcoin, and look where we are now, that puts things in perspective, I think if you would have told someone that ETH would be worth at least $250 now they would have called you crazy and laughed in your face, that shows how unpredictable this market is.

I think that as long as it is not ATH it is a good time to invest, since bitcoin is still a very solid currency, and with the implementation of the lighting network almost all the problems of the past were solved, so you can still trust that it will last a few more years as the first one.

I think most of the investors are being very careful because of the bear market, so we don't see as much money flow as before, personally I don't care if a currency lowers the price after being listed on an exchange, because if it is a really good currency, the price always goes up when the project continues to develop.