you can check here which are online https://merit.disifi.com/pools

now only dev pool is working as far as I know

I read other posts in topic I missed. First of all, it's not begging when you ask your inviter for more invites. Invites are here and yes it depends on a) mining b) CGS. So I am getting more invites with wallet that invited many people and has some balance and do some mining than for example you. It's hard to tell who should get invites in decentralized way, and this seems to me pretty good solution. And we, people, community, are here to compensate it. There's nothing wrong asking someone higher in your ambassador tree for invites, I did it before too and that's the point of community. Even someone outside your tree will likely send you couple of as KAMO mentioned. I sent you 5 more invites and if wallet invited by you will need invites just let me know and I will send them too. It's not about begging it's just about letting me know, so invites will be spread the best way they can be.

Also there are more ways to get invites but if your inviter has some (in your case me) or someone upper in a tree, there's no reason avoiding to ask. As was mostly mentioned:
1. you can get it from centralized pools, starting with Parachute is great, but you need to wait until end of the month, it's similar, you have to ask for them via form (not begging!)
2. try to get 20 MRT to your wallet and you'll be qualified for Proof of Growth rewards, it's not true only whales get it, you'll get couple rewards in a month even with 20 MRT wallet you have also a chance to get invite from blockchain this way, check your rank here https://merit.disifi.com/wallet/Roberto
3. last but not least, invites are not so expensive nowadays, motivation to create fake wallets disappeared with PoG3 and I guess you would get invites starting at 2 MRT on Discord, it's worth it if you're going to invite some real wallets it will be returned in growth rewards pretty soon

Have you tried this procedure? https://merit.disifi.com/wiki/unavailable-gpus

1. Update your graphics drivers
2. Save and record your 12 word passphrase somewhere safe
3. Click on "Settings" in the left hand menu of the wallet
4. MAKE SURE YOU HAVE COMPLETED STEP 2. Click on the red button at the bottom to "Clear data and logout".
5. Reload your wallet using your 12 word passphrase
6. Happy mining!

core team is fixing that right now, should be back soon, there seems to be a bug in the getblocktemplate rpc call

Hello Mike, I understand you're just hunting posts, but either way, Merit is not token, it's coin. Also it was without ICO, so no reason to official registration. Have a nice day!

I'm trying to collect also info about invites distribution and it's available here https://merit.disifi.com/pools

There is actually signature campaign you can join if you meet the criteria https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5015102.0

There actually were some articles around the web, also Adil had some speaking, check jayk306's post on first page, he summarized some. But as far as I know it wasn't (and still not) pushed very hard, firstly the product should be great to use, then promote it.

No, it's not, all depends on how active user you will be able to invite with that invite

Speaking "us" was quote from FAQ, but, I am also not member of core team and I like to use term "us" as Merit community, whole project is community targeted, so join "us" and feel free to speaking as "us"

Small addition to awesome KAMO response about centralized wallets - actually there is also full node wallet, not only centralized. You can run full node for yourself. https://www.merit.me/technology/#get-core-client

No, it's not in plan. Here invites are not to restrict access to project, exactly the opposite, it's supposed to make it grow. Algorithm for generating invites are dynamic so there won't be out of stock - if more invites are used, more invites will be distributed.

It definitely will, from FAQ:

We have not talked to any third-party exchanges yet, but we plan to reach out to them soon.  We followed this strategy for many reasons.

The short version is that Merit has been successful so far in onboarding many new users who have never used crypto before.  We are extraordinarily proud of this.
And most exchanges are "Expert Mode" with 100s of currency pairs and very complex "daytrader" interfaces.

We wanted to be sure that we provided a remarkably simple and easy way for new users to Merit (and crypto in general) to get their hands on Merit.

Additionally, because Merit is invite only, exchanges will have to do a little extra work in order to list MRT.  We have several ways to facilitate this process, but in the short term we will continue to support the Market.

Well that dashboard was not supposed to be publicly announced yet, there are some things to be done and dev team wants to make things to some proper state before publishing (as you can see with announcing whole project). But too late I think

It's on page 10, part 4.5, really complex thing.

In short, it's as I posted earlier:
- get as much Merits as possible and hold (it matures, 50% after 7 days, fully after 30 days)
- invite as much people as you can with as much Merits as possible
- teach them to do those two things above, so your network will be growing

Lottery is based on two types of "community growth scores" equally CGS and subCGS (5 MRT and 5 MRT each block). It's combination of your balance with your activity in inviting new people, growing your network. To make your scores bigger, easiest explanation would be:
- get as much Merits as possible
- invite as much people as you can with as much Merits as possible
- teach them to do those two things above, so your network will be growing

No ICO no caps

You can see some current stats on https://merit.disifi.com

Yes it's built into blockchain, part of consensus.

People with higher CGS usually use most of the invite tokens, so it's fair to distribute it to them based on that key. Anyway, algorithm for generating invites are dynamic so there won't be situation when no invites will be left, if more invites are spent, more are distributed. It can be hard in short-time when many invites are used, but next days also many invites will be airdropped.

To clarify responses of others. Invite distribution is decentralized and how algorithm decides who will get one is lottery. Invites are distributed:

- 1 of 10 blocks for PoG miners
- from the rest:
      - 50% awarded based on your CGS (community growth score).
      - 40% awarded to new addresses (Max 1 per address).
      - 10% awarded to random addresses.
- Minimum of 144 invites airdropped per day. Grows as needed.
- Number Airdropped based on overall growth, more growth means more invites generated.


About a development, as someone mentioned it's from fall of 2017 as far as I know, those 30k commits are not all from dev team, there's accounted also commits from project it was based on. They are super fast but not as much I guess it's around 2k commits since then.

It's in main blockchain, wallet needs to be beaconed before use, otherwise it's not possible to transfer Merits there.