Sorry I can't comment a lot on this. I wanna be as lawful as it gets, even though I hate taxes and totally dislike the unfair politics behind it. I can only tell you that since I've got a family, I can't think for my own anymore, I need to think for my kids as well. So, even if you think that I can simply receive payments in an address and live off of it, and even if it's true, I can't do it.

Profits from trading is a completely other story. It's not considered income, but rather investment gain and it has a 15% flat tax for complex assets (like crypto is considered).

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This is a much better (and simpler) answer than my answer above 

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Absolutely! I realize that! I'm talking about the new era of users. Someone who first bought BTC in 2020 can't compare their pockets with someone who bought in 2015, or even more with someone who bought in 2011-12.


Haha, I liked the "gambling" reference and it's sad but it's true. By the way, did you know that in some jurisdictions it's illegal to promote gambling (or betting) websites?

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Hi mate! Yes, that's what I mean. Self-employed is still a form of company in my country.


Exactly, I think in most countries it's illegal not to declare your income.


Yes, in my country you have an income tax which scales depending on the income level and then there's the conversion (profit) tax.

So if I get paid 1000 euros this year (in BTC) and I sell it for 10,000 euros the next year, I will need to pay taxes both for the income (the 1000 euros) and the profit when I sell it. So I need to keep track of the exact amount I was paid in euro every week, because 98,571 sats don't actually mean anything. I need to know how much I was paid in euros and then I need to do the classic FIFO calculation for the profit calculation. It's not trivial, nor is it too difficult. I could live with it if the taxes were lower.

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Yes, personally, I've found myself posting better stuff when I didn't have the anxiety of not meeting my post quota, when I was truly free to write. But, as I said, if you can enjoy the forum and also get paid, it's a blessing.

No. I cannot empty a sea with a spoon.
Of course If I see a clear scam I made a report to moderator or I am ready to tag the user.
Personally, the idea that anyone could leave a trust/comment is really awesome. Of course I try to keep safe but in a certain case it can be a waste of time...
Moreover, if people cant understand that Elon Musk doesn't want double their bitcoin by themself, trust me, its really hard they understand even after many many hours of explanations graphs and so on...

I need to form a legal entity to receive payments, which means I also need to pay some flat taxes. Without boring you with details, it's about 2500-3000 euros per year.

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Yes, I'm in Greece. Believe me... it sucks.


You're one of the few people for whom I don't have any single doubt


This wasn't really my question. I know you're not paid for tagging scammers, but being paid in the forum gives you an extra need to keep it safe, doesn't it?


Thanks for reading the whole post 

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@PrivacyG - good post, you covered all of my questions, I won't quote anything specifically, but good response overall!

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Please read my response to LoyceV above, I believe my question was misunderstood. I was meaning that if you get paid and you need a sustainable payment resource through the forum, you gotta try to keep it safe. No?

After Blomer gave me his advice and after thinking about it all morning, I made a big change. Let's say that it's no longer about quality but about a reputation score.
As you rightly said, quality is difficult to measure; it would require a huge database to process every written text and give it a score.
So I created this BRDb, which is nothing more than the same initial formula but compresses the reputation score result on a scale of 1 to 10. A bit like the IMDb rating.
There are just a few minor things to fix, but I'll do that later!
Honestly, I really like this version! I don't know if everyone will like it or not, but anyone who wants to can download the userscript and try it out as soon as I publish the update on Greasyfork.

Wow *Ace*, it all started from an idea of mine, based on a LoyceV post, but you went down the rabbit hole of Statistical Onanism!
Well, who am I to dispute your hobbies?

I like the result, but I will repeat it every time; only a thorough read of every single post can give the correct assessment of post quality. 

In fact, it was a rhetorical question. It is not possible to find the perfect profile, for various reasons, but I need to have a starting point in order to create an ad hoc rating.


It doesn't give a score of zero but 1.0
At least in an old and now abandoned account

 

Were you expecting winners were not going to get their voucher codes?

When clients get older, when we work with them for months, we starts to understand each others better, we become flexible for each others and sometimes even we give out from our pocket, sometimes they send us upfront even more money that it requires. The financial transactions are based on trust. Bitcoin has created for trustless transactions but in real business you have to have a level of trust. Without trusting an escrow provider people who are new, would not exchange coins with each others.

The event rewards were on voucher form (sending out mainly BTC and other currency format) so I had no option but to wait. However, the signature campaign payments are in BTC so I can settle it even if there are no funds. The unwanted situation of last two months effected the fund receiving too. I have not received fresh funds since two months (after the last refill) but can anyone tell (from signature campaign) that their payments are due? Not a single one so far.

The staff changes from several departments, the contact changes (not the main man M**K who I believe is the owner but the contacts who take cares of funding, bonus code, and communication with me with 1Win PR affairs), the Christmas holidays, the new year holidays - several things were causing all these delay for the bonus codes. I never felt that none were going to be unpaid so it continued - without this FUD created around I would still continue the events because I know none of them were going to get unpaid (we missed several rounds anyway).

The signature campaign continued too (however they were getting paid out of my pocket). Today, I am expecting the debts to be paid which is 0.05094579 BTC plus more $675.00. Am I worried or were worried? No, because there is a connection of trust between me and my clients. It takes time but like I said when a client become long term business partner then this confidence grows automatically.

There were another batch and I am lazy to find the sheet to past.

PS: Apology for any inconvenience caused for the players for this unexpected delay. Thanks OP for creating this thread and my suggestion to you is: You should not join in a FREE contest where you believe you will not get paid and you do not believe the campaign manager (host)

Case close.

I think you really need to step back and think about the issues and how it got solved. Noone said royse stole money or anything close. The issue was 1win allowed some contests and failed to pay them, then instead of being diligent and getting answers or stop promoting the platform, royse only gave updates on his telegram channel and should have at the least updated users here as well, along with stopping contests/promotions til the 1win team took care of their obligations. Had it been handled properly, no thread would have happened.

Sincerely and without mincing words, this topic helped in getting the issue resolved. Probably it motivated Royse to take a more decisive approach in reach 1Win which lead to the case being resolved. But the point I'm making is that it has been. Established that Royse did not scam anyone in this case and it was 1Win that delayed I paying contest winners. It is therefore, necessary for the accuser to retract his statement and end the discussion. Just imagine being called a scammer in a forum with millions of visitors per month, imagine the trauma and the harm it will do to your reputation and imagine.

I cannot recall the exact details, yet it probably was the case that I sent with fees that were around $1 or less than $1.  Those were fee levels that had been going through at various points earlier.. so I had likely presumed that there might be some downward spikes in which my transaction would get picked up.. .. which we see did not happen.


Sometimes the functionality of the wallet will provide options, and I may well would have had been using the blockchain.info wallet.  For sure, I don't always know or look into the functionality, and I recall some instances where I had used some RBF (replace by fee) functions, and the fees were outrageous and it did not even cause my transaction to go through quickly.   I have had some recent times using RBF that ended up working well and the fees were a bit more reasonable.. even though it still would have had been better to have had transacted with an adequate fee in the first place... but yeah sometimes there can be value in experimenting with various functions to try to learn better how they work - and any of us (including yours truly) might not want to be spending a lot of time learning about certain functions, yet if we get put into a situation that we are trying to accomplish a certain kind of functionality, then we might be forced into trying to learn at a less than convenient time.


Yep. Various kinds of bitcoin adoption does seem to be taking place through transacting with the use of various third-party custodians or not even transacting through bitcoin at all, but instead just holding bitcoin for number go up technology (or price exposure purposes). 

I surely am not opposed to the investment thesis as a use case and/or a principle reason to be in bitcoin, yet it seems to me that if normies are not willing or able to use bitcoin for transacting through directly holding it, then perhaps only the more well-to-do would be using bitcoin for transactions (supposedly large transactions) - which surely overall power and empowerment of bitcoin would tend to not be increased if it were ONLY to be used by the wealthy and/or only for large transactions - since even if someone decides to buy a house or a car or some kind of a BIGGER ticket item, recipients might well be more inclined to accept bitcoin as a means of payment if they are able to directly transact with their bitcoin in a variety of ways rather than having to go through some 3rd party to cash out. 

And sure, some transactions might be mixed with directly controlling the private keys or using third party custodians - even though maybe here and in this thread we had been trying to refer to direct ways of transacting with bitcoin with an open sourced wallet - whether Trezor or perhaps using some other wallets with similar functionality, .. and surely, this thread's reference to the Trezor specifically was meant to highlight Trezor's functionalities (presumptively Trezor suite) - even though Trezor wallets do not tend to be carried around and used like a hot wallet (not that we are necessarily limited to ONLY using Trezor suite with the Trezor)...and we may well have other bitcoin wallets that we use for carrying out those transactions that we are doing in a more mobile way - even though Trezor might also be included at some point in the mix of our transactions to buy/sell products and/or services.. especially in cases in which there might be several hops or even various transactions in order to accomplish the payment in full of the transaction.. like putting down a deposit and then making subsequent payments in various stages..

Unfortunately, that's hardly the case as I see posts accusing others who express contrary opinions of spamming or writing out of point even when it's obvious that they make salient points. In the recent past, it used to be with anyone who shared anything perceived to go against Bitcoin's acceptability or "supremacy". It's fine that things aren't that heated up anymore like before, anyway.

I do understand you perfectly on this and I hope more users who only merit posts that agree with them will see the meriting thing from your angle now.

Something can be seen here:


Then there are references to all his post deletions:

I updated the logic
I left post120 === 0
Merit120 === 0
Inactivity ≥ 2 years

If by chance they receive even a single merit, the tool always labels them as former elite, and in order to return to their real score, there must be a condition that they must post during the reactivation period, i.e. during the last 120 days, the user must post something on the forum on at least 2 separate days.

There are many users doing strange thing.
Symmetrick archived his posts and retained his merits.
Boblawblaw deleted almost his posts and became a newbie again. Then regained his merits.
I am curious to see his score as well, even if his past should be "invisible" now.

Tell me if something like this would work:
Post120 === 0
Merit120 === 0
Inactivity > 2 years

Final score = 0 dormant former elite
Reputation score = score given by the formula

What the hell? The posts are all empty and archived!
How can he have all these Merits?
Unfortunately, however, it is not an error in the formula! It is a borderline and isolated case, I would say.

The formula will penalise him even more if he does not become active again, but it will not bring him down to zero; it will stop at a maximum of 10% of the total.
See satoshi for a better understanding.
It does not seem fair to me to remove all the points. For better or worse, these users have been part of Bitcointalk's history, so I must give them some recognition, even though I do not know either of them. 

There weren't as many tools in late 2017, yet I recall sending like around $10 to a friend in like the first week of December 2017.  I was introducing such friend to direct bitcoin transactions and pointing out how to use a wallet on the phone.  Sure I probably low balled the transaction, and since it had not gone through in around the 3rd week of January, I decided to send the transaction again with a slightly higher fee, and then both of those transactions cleared a few days later. So my friend got double gifts.

There were aspects of bitcoin that I was pushed into learning about and also reconsidering what I had thought to be purposeful attacks on the bitcoin blockchain, so in some sense, I had expectations that the aberrations would get addressed and also that better tools would be developed, and of course, we have had various surprises through the years, and perhaps even contributing to skepticisms in regards to the adequacy of tools to deal with matters and/or how we might try to protect ourselves from getting into similar pickles - since there might be times that we just have to have other options available.

When I travel I will frequently ask merchants if they accept bitcoin, and sometimes my cash situation has not been good, so then I am trying to ask about the various ways that I might be able to pay, besides cash (or I don't want to completely deplete my wallet and/or have to look for an ATM that accepts my card without too many fees), and in the past 6-ish months, I have had a couple of instances in which I paid through Cash App in a location outside of the USA, but the person did not accept bitcoin even thought they had cash app, yet at the same time, the reason that they had ability to accept payments through cash app was because they had a USA bank account even though they were outside of the USA.

It is nice to have options, even though sometimes there can also be frustration with the experimentations or even concerns about fees that might be charged on the back end if certain kinds of processes are followed. Many times I will pay with a credit card even though there can be extra costs, since so many folks seem to prefer cash, and so surely if I tell them that we can get rid of some of the fees by transacting in bitcoin, they are not set up for it and they are not wanting to get set up for accepting bitcoin.  I have had some say that they could accept bitcoin, but then when we actually went into the process of figuring out how we were going to transact, there were issues with that.. and sometimes it ended up being the case that they were not even capable of carrying out the transaction in bitcoin, even though they had initially said that they could.

I have made some changes to the formula.
Now, new members who have few posts but many Merits are not ranked higher than those who have many posts and many Merits.
Furthermore, the longer a user is inactive, the greater the penalty on their score.
The tool now gives us three pieces of data
Final Rank: this is the overall score that summarises history + recent activity.
Reliability: This is a measure of the user's stability and consistency calculated based on the total number of posts
Profile age (how long the user has been active)
Reputation Score: This is a historical measure of the effectiveness of posts and Merits received, regardless of recent activity.

Maybe there are 3-ish categories (and maybe with subcategories) of recipients..

such as:

1) sending to ourselves in a way that is not urgent - so could arrive within a few days or even a week-ish.. or even be used as an experiment category that is not urgent.

2) sending to a known person like a friend or relative who is not worried about receiving the transaction so that might be within 24-48 hours.

3) sending to an unknown person who wants the transaction confirmed in 10- minutes if possible... .but yeah, might be willing to wait an hour or two, yet will not release merchandize without having at least 1 confirmation - sometimes even wanting more than 1 confirmation.

My preference tends to be to look at the recent transactions on mempool space to figure out what level has been clearing and to mostly send customized transactions that have my own estimation of how long it might take.

In recent times, with costs mostly below 10 sats per vbyte  I am not very worried about costs, even thugh surely if the transaction is very small there could be concerns about the next hops on such small transactions, to the extent that the UTXOs are not being consolidated. .which I don't tend to consolidate very often since I don't tend to keep too many very small transactions, and I even tend to try to keep my change UTXOs, sufficiently large.. . .but yeah, if the transaction goes to a hot wallet or even there are multiple transactions in a hot wallet, then there could end up being several small UTXOs from not being purposeful in controlling the transactions and/or the change amounts.


Sometimes if I had either sent low priority transactions or I had purposefully tried to save fees, I still might start to get anxious if the transaction had not cleared after a few days.. which sometimes happens in those kinds of situations, and surely any of us who have been dealing with these matters for a while have likely ended up in situations of several weeks or more than a month of waiting for a transaction to go through.

it matters somewhat if you have a lot of size to the send.

but if fees end up to be under 1 dollar I generally do not mind.

My sends tend to be few and not a lot of bytes in size.

No matter the disclaimer you put, it will almost certainly be misinterpreted by many.

Gotta be honest, I don't like users being judged by merit earned as things are more complicated than that and as LoyceV said, its going to be very hard to cover all the possible scenarios.

when you have the attention span of a gnat (like myself) sometimes its worth the sats lol

Something that separate a blip on Bitcointalk history and a true legend is the amount of merits received during inactivity.
Merits received by users like Satoshi, Hal or o_e_l_e_o while they were inactive are a testimony of their greatness.
Maybe a merit received while inactive should count more? I am sure some shitposter got merit while inactive as well.


That is for sure, and hopefully is clear to everyone.

You mean once the game has started ? The problem, spoiler alert, is that after the first round, someone will lose a life.
For your idea to work, we would need to start with three lives, but that would make the game longer.
Let's keep it "simple" for now . We will discuss about it at the end of this game. This game is the first version, and I hope there will be others (I am considering a two-player version in the future).

We acknowledge that the Invite Code bug still exists. We are actively working on it, and it will be fixed in the final release patch.

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We've identified an issue with Claim tasks when the same task is claimed on the second day.
This will be fixed as well. It looks like we missed addressing it earlier, even though it was previously reported.

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Thanks, bud, for taking part in testing, we really appreciate your help.

I could impose a penalty based on the length of absence from the forum.
Example: inactivity > 365 days reduces score by 10%.

Your considerations are more than legitimate. The problem is that with the data available, I cannot filter it as you requested. It would require a database from which to draw the data and filter it, a database that unfortunately I do not have and do not know if it is available.

Your observation is correct but difficult to implement! As already mentioned, the tool does not check the content of posts, nor does it check where the posts are written.
Basically, it fetches the user profile page and obtains the data it needs to examine. It also takes the time data from bitlist to see if the user has recent activity or is inactive.
What it returns is a snapshot of what the community thinks of me or you, or of fillippone or LoyceV, babo, etc.
It does not examine quality in the strict sense of the word, but only what each of us has done during our time on this forum.
We wouldn't even need a tool to understand that, on average, I have received 0.8 Merit for each of my posts! But the formula would serve to eliminate false positives as much as possible, not reward shitposters, and understand, for better or worse, how we have behaved on the forum, whether we have been appreciated or not.

As far as you are concerned, I can openly say that vod has created a truly fantastic and impressive tool. It will not replace the Merit system, but rather serve as a different form of "voting" to understand how much we appreciate the contributions of others, without limiting the vote. I don't know if I'm explaining myself well, but in short, to give 1 Merit, I first have to earn 2, which in itself is a limitation.
I'm not saying that the Merit system has problems, but simply that it's not entirely fair!
In my opinion, this is precisely what gives rise to merit abusers.

The idea is interesting, but imho the formula itself needs more work. Maybe merit made more important.

It could also be an idea to also use overall earned merit and overall posts too somewhere. (Of course, also take into account those who didn't post since merit was introduced).

The point is that I think that the current formula may be missing a huge number of old high quality posts (and merits), which could make the results somewhat inconsistent (given that satoshi 14+ score and LoyceV only 0.81)


On the other hand... if you go by everybody's ideas you'll go crazy. So do as you think it fits.

You are absolutely correct. I will consider modifying the formula, perhaps introducing a penalty system if the profile is too young. I will think about it tonight.


If it goes well, this experiment could provide valuable feedback on user quality! But it should not be misinterpreted: the tool does not judge what we write, only the data available.


Help is welcome, thank you, Vod! What would you like to participate in?

I am all chill not even angry about it, I was laughing out loud because you keep on just fishing for red flags?
You haven’t contributed with any single productive feedback towards this thread and only kept harassing and being negative towards my project, As if you have a sixth sense of whether I have a good or bad intention with my project? That’s what I call bullshit my man.

And for the record, I have no problem about being transparent and setting up multi sig wallets for any cofounders coming onboard, And definitely no problem to make this project decentralised as it is my end up after improving the UI.

It is very much possible, and we already have the information public, I saw somewhere on the bitcointalk from Loycev and if I came across that post then I will list them here.

No, finding the number of users is not possible, only the number of total bitcoin addresses with value is possible.

First of all, Looking for investors does not necessarily mean "Money" but expertise as well.
Technically saying, I am investing my time in replying to your bullshit comments as well.

And as I clearly and previously said, I was occupied with other projects that were time consuming.
Quite a productive feedback from your end lol.
If you want to provide any advice, or any improvements to be made, that would be much better.

Even though you may be writing in terms that seem not understandable clearly what you mean, I still understand you and it’s quite unfortunate that abusers broke the glass used in holding vulnerable heart but then it gets to be an effect on both people who would have deserved it in the very future which is now but however, the fact remains abusers will always abuse eve if you shut the door.

Oh.  You know what else is broken?  Those brake pads between my ears that used to, and still ought to, slow me down enough to read things thoroughly.  And when I say broken, I mean smashed to atoms and buried deep in a landfill by used condoms and other disgusting entropy.

Ahem.  I offer my apologies to that poster whom I might have besmirched inadvertently. 

LoyceV, you didn't get to be 5th most recognized on BPIP and wind up with the most earned merit on the whole forum for nothing.  I bow before your grandeur (after I'm done with Foxpup, of course).

You're not lazy, but I already know where you're going with this! These are extreme cases, but to be fair, I'll show them to you anyway. 

 

Fair question. Looking for co-founders/investors isn’t something bad, it just helps build faster and better (security, support, dispute handling, ops).
Also, would you drop the same question for yourself in that manner if you just opened your platform? “Looking for money”?
It is quite a rude comment/question my mate and not productive in any way.

EscrowMyCoins has been a long-term goal that I am now fully dedicated to finalizing, with a significantly improved version currently in development. I recognize that reputation is a cumulative process, and I am committed to proving this platform's value over time. To accelerate this vision, I am looking for co-founders and investors to join the team. This partnership will allow me to concentrate on technical excellence while we build our market presence together.

​@LoyceV
> If you don't look at the keyboard, it doesn't matter what it says on the keys smiley

​You are absolutely right regarding the alphabet (A-Z). If I touch-type "password", my fingers hit the same physical switches regardless of the labels.
​The real panic comes with special characters.
My passphrase includes symbols. On a standard US layout, @ is Shift+2. On a German QWERTZ, it is AltGr+Q. On a UK layout, " and @ are swapped.
If I am on a borrowed laptop and instinctively look down to find the symbol on the keys, that is where the "User Error" trap springs if the OS layout doesn't match the physical labels.
​So yes, I now explicitly check/set the Keyboard Layout in the Tails Greeter every time to match the hardware I am using.

I have the same problem as LoyceV. When I visit my referral link, I have to visit the same link twice for the invite code to appear.




This works perfectly

Task claiming works perfectly too, I have no problem with that



This is what I received in the email notification, I will try other things later 

Thank you for this, Zwei, and welcome back to us!

Please add also the AOBT banner at the bottom of your translation.

Besides, I also announced LoyceV about it.

You don't go too far to make a narrative, just answer my question according to the quote above, don't answer what I didn't ask you.

In the previous post, I made three quoted sections, so you only need to answer the top question.
Peanutswar has said that there is an attack, so how can the USDT be delivered to your address? Is it you who do it?

I don't really believe when there is an account connected, being on a different local board. Because some of the cases that I have revealed have shown that pattern.

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Now you just need to answer my question and answer the one in the quote below.

Those are rhetoric questions.

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User: DonaldCryptoTalk1

Additional information (optional):
* This user received at least 2 accusation of spamming with AI/chatbot. See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5456516.msg65778439#msg65778439 and https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5456516.msg65581422#msg65581422.
* This user already received 3 feedback due to spamming with AI/chatbot.
* I reported some of his post, but he continue to spam.

List of post:


1. He quoted entire d5000 thread which have about 9 thousand character.
2. Most of his post simply summarize and rephrase d5000 thread.

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User: hmbdofficial

Additional information (optional):
* I suspect this user use AI/chatbot.

List of post:


1. As stated by other user on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5569700.msg66287462#msg66287462, this explanation isn't easy/clear to understand.
2. Claim of legacy TX consume more storage is wrong, since raw bytes of P2PKH (legacy address) and P2WPKH (native segwit address) isn't that different. Here's example calculation from https://jlopp.github.io/bitcoin-transaction-size-calculator/



1. Actually there are some wallet software that let you create wallet seedphrase, such as Electrum and Bitcoin Core.
2. While it's possible to get raw pass key and manage it manually, usually it's managed by OS or certain application you use.

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User: Tinubu

Additional information (optional):
* I suspect this user use AI/chatbot.

List of post:


All suggestion on this post already mentioned by other member.


1. While it's not user-friendly approach, other user already mention it's actually possible to prune by date. See https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5568319.msg66170419#msg66170419.
2. Suggesting to use block explorer isn't helpful, since the one who asked question already mentioned his goal is to learn about pruning system.


Another user explain what's wrong with this post.

I'm thinking of setting everything up on the same server.

Now I just need to get organized to make this adventure/investment a reality. 

The LoyceV and TryNinja tools are too sophisticated to be lied to. Even if a post has been deleted, the archive will remain.
So who created this archived post?
https://loyce.club/archive/posts/6229/62297785.html
https://bitlist.co/address/TWN2BYmN1cmoGQmNaAVjzYLUX12As4zTrX

You don't admit that this TWN2BYmN1cmoGQmNaAVjzYLUX12As4zTrX is not your wallet, then who posted it then?
Not player, it was PAYEER.

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If I make an accusation, I will prepare complete evidence. I only responded to the link shared by lovesmayfamilis, which turned out to lead to your account. I then checked the wallet and found that there was a connection. After that I noticed a similar pattern, which is borrowing quite a large amount of money. That’s the point.

However you haven’t provided any valid evidence regarding the connected wallet. You only mentioned it as a minor help. If that’s all the explanation given, it can easily be copied or used by others later.

So if you can prove what the help conversation actually looked like, then maybe the help status could be considered valid.

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Yes I have read it. If that is really how it happened, are you aware that the address sent USDT to an address that Woodie had previously posted? Indirectly, don’t you feel suspicious of Woodie?

Thanks for testing, mate!
Originally, we decided to allow password changes only through the Password Reset flow for security reasons.
After the release, we will run a poll and discuss with the community whether to add a direct password change option in the Security tab or keep the current approach.

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Hey LoyceV, glad to see you again.
Thanks for your testing, we really appreciate it. It looks like the Invite Code bug is still present. We will investigate it and get it fixed within a day or two.

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Noted. This will be corrected.

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Unfortunately, that's the reality of current standards.

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This was implemented for security reasons. That said, no worries we will refine the flow and make the overall process more user-friendly soon.

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You can find your referral count on the Profile page under the Account Statistics tab.

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Guys, we've also created several Claim tasks. If you have a few minutes to test them, that would be great as well.

Thank you all for being such a great community and for helping us shape Bridgoro.

Nice catch!
It's strange that only ICQ ia affected with this and not AIM, MSN and YIM.
If theymos is going to remove something I would suggest him to remove all of them, not just ICQ, and maybe replace them with blanks fields, if people want to add something new like telegram accounts.

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المؤلف: LoyceV
الموضوع الاصلي:  How to lose your Bitcoins with CTRL-C CTRL-V

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رايت للتو ضحية اخرى لبرمجيات خبيثة تقوم بتغيير معلومات النسخ واللصق (clipboard hijacker malware).

كيف يعمل
1. تنسخ عنوان البيتكوين عن طريق Ctrl+C.
2. تقوم البرمجية الخبيثة باستبدال العنوان بعنوان المخترق/المحتال.
3. تلصق العنوان عن طريق Ctrl+V و تفقد اي عملات ارسلتها.
حتى لو تحققت من جزء من عنوان البتكوين الملصوق، فمن المرجح ان الاحرف الاولى ستكون متطابقة للعنوان الاصلي، ولن تلاحظ ان العنوان قد تغير.

كيفية الوقاية من هذا
1. لا تستخدم نظام ويندوز، لكننا نعلم جيدا انك لن تقوم بتغيره.
2. تحقق من العنوان بالكامل بعد النسخ واللصق، وليس فقط من اول او اخر بضعة احرف. تحقق ايضا من بعض الاحرف في المنتصف. هذا يتطلب جهدا، لذا من المرجح انك لن تفعل ذلك ايضا.
3. فكرت في شيء اخر: لا تنسخ عنوان البيتكوين بالكامل، انسخ قسما فقط واكتب يدويا الاحرف الاخيرة. حتى لو قامت البرمجيات الخبيثة باستبدال الجزء المنسوخ بعنوان اخر، فلن تقبل محفظتك العنوان (غير صالح) اذا كتبت الاحرف الاخيرة بنفسك.
ستظل بحاجة الى اتباع الخطوة 2: تحقق من العنوان!
4. استخدم النسخ/اللصق للتحقق من جزء من العنوان. لنفترض انك تريد ارسال عملات الى العنوان 1PjpEgknyKxQKXtMcYFDym8odkfohFGkui بعد النسخ/اللصق، حدد الجزء "yKxQKXtMc" من العنوان الذي تم لصقه، تم اضغط CTRL+C. بعد ذلك، استخدم CTRL+F تم CTRL+V لمعرفة ما اذا كان هذا الجزء من العنوان يطابق العنوان الاصلي. وتاكد دائما من المصدر، فحتى عناوين البريد الالكتروني يمكن تزويرها.
5. ساضيف هنا اقتراح o_e_l_e_o:

كن يقظا
تحقق، تم تحقق مرة اخرى، تم تحقق للمرة التالتة قبل ارسال اي عملات!

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Yes, that's it.

I was thinking of something like this:

I've been probing to mount a node on a server.
I think I've asked before, but based on these months of use, what are the features that you consider good for a node/explorer?

Well, it's not really a controversial statement, but service presence of mixers on the forum is still not allowed. You know, think of it like the mixer using Bitcointalk as the official place for making announcements. It's obvious Theymos wants nothing to do about that, and we can't really complain about it.

The official stance of the forum towards mixers has softened a bit, so perhaps those who promote them have more credit than was the case before. On the other hand, maybe the mod who handled the reports was one of those who think he needs a little more time to understand what's allowed and what's not.

Kf you mean active users, I can agree with you, bit if you mean general, I do not agree with you. These are the list of most recognized people that have account on Bitcointalk that I think are most recognized:

Satoshi Nakamoto
Sirius
Laszlo Hanyecz
Theymos
Hal Finney

Fir active user, I will choose

Theymos
LoyceV
Cyrus
DdmrDdmr

Most of us have been in the forum three, four and six years but we don't know the top (4) or top (10) recognised users of the forum, Talk more of knowing the statistics of the total numbers of Registered users and ban and daily active user of the forum, i know that many people will feel less concern to know this, and many will say that knowing all this i mentioned, it will not add values to their profile

But for me it's important to know about the existence of forum and also how many people that is in forum, both weekly and monthly and annually, i think this will help to know if some of the forum numbers is reducing or increasing, but I know that everyday forum numbers of users get increased, I know that some people will think that what I have mentioned here it suppose to be work of the staffs, but I think that is not the truth.

 Here come the statistics of total numbers of Bitcointalk user in 2026, Total numbers of Ban users, And total numbers of Daily active users

•Total numbers of Registered users = 3.7 million

• Total numbers of Banned users, approximately = 3 million

• Total numbers of Non banned users, approximately = 700,000

•  Total numbers of Daily active users, approximately = 300,000 and above

• Total numbers of users who visit the forum monthly, approximately =  1.6 million

This is a research i carried out to evaluate the statistics of Bitcointalk user Source    

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According to my research using bpip.org to identify the top most recognised users of Bitcointalk, from the day Bitcointalk was launched till date, here come to the results of my first research.

Top(4) recognised Bitcointalk users from total numbers of 3.7 million Registered users  
 
(1) Theymos
(2) OgNasty
(3) Philipma1957
(4) LoyceV

1• Theymos is the first recognised user of Bitcointalk and first active user of Bitcointalk, but is not the most merited user, that is to show us how transparent and lenient is forum and it's principles, this is another indication to let us know that Bitcointalk data formation remains unchanged and it can't  be manipulate, Here come the bpip image..




2. OgNasty, according the research it appears that OgNasty is the second most recognised users of Bitcointalk, and i don't think everyone will be aware of this if not this research, and people that will be aware that is the 2nd most recognised user, people will not know him as most recognised user, but is not most merited or most trusted..Here come the bpip image...




3.Philipma1957, This is a clear evidence to let us know that Bitcointalk information doesn't die, Philipma1957 is the 3rd user in bitcointalk that is being recognised and without bpip image don't think so many of us would have know this information, without making this research, I do think that after Theymos the next user in line is LoyceV, but not knowing that OgNasty come second for Bitcointalk recognition and third by Philipma1957.Here come the bpip image




4. LoyceV, This is the one I had in mind that would have being the second after Theymos, but bpip.org proved me wrong, so times you need to conclude with your instincts, without this research I won't have know that they are other users Bitcointalk recognised first before LoyceV, the functions of LoyceV in bitcointalk made some of us to rate him higher than others, and we are going to be rating him higher because of his activities, in bitcointalk, his the 4th most recognised user and 2nd most earned merits and 34th most trusted...Here come the bpip image

 

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I don't know if I would have obtain permission before posting a users bpip.org profile, I'm pleading if it's against the rules and regulations of bitcointalk i ask for forgiveness, I made this thread for reference purposes, for people who dont know about the volume of people that registered in the bitcointalk annually and the top 4 most recognised bitcointalk users to know...I also urge anyone who have time to make a research to list most top 6, from 6 to 10 most recognised users of Bitcointalk.

Well done, mate, I'm glad I've been an inspiration to you.
The report is practically identical to the structure of my report. Are you using my tool?
Keep it up and you'll encourage your fellow countrymen to be more productive on this board.
I think Fillippone would say the same thing.

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Timeframe: 12/01/2025 to 12/31/2025
Boards included: Pilipinas (+4 child boards)


Insights:

• There is a noticeable drop in the total number of posts (~22%), which is likely an effect of the holiday season. It's possible that users spent less time engaging with the forum in general.
• There's also a drop in merited posts written in December (41) vs. November (64), which is proportionally larger than the drop in total posts.
• We see a significant decrease (~30%) in merit distribution. It looks like majority of users were more conservative in sending their sMerits, at least in our local board. This can be clearly seen if we look at our Top 10 Merit Senders.

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Quote Board   Posts (Dec 2025)   Posts (Nov 2025)   Difference Pilipinas 677 904 -227 Pamilihan 58 61 -3 Others (Pilipinas) 26 24 +2 Altcoins (Pilipinas) 17 8 +9 Altcoin Announcements (Pilipinas) 0 0 0

Insights:

• The post drop in Pilipinas main board (-227) accounts for more than 100% of the total post drop from November to December (-219), but it's still the most active board by far.
• Activity in the child boards are almost still the same, apart from Altcoins (Pilipinas) which more than doubled its post count.
• Despite the lower volume of posts, the overall activity of our local board remains at a healthy level.

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Quote from: November 2025 Pos.   User   Number of posts 1. blockman 55 2. gunhell16 52 2. tech30338 52 4. cryptoaddictchie 40 5. arwin100 31 6. finaleshot2016 29 7. julerz12 27 8. GreatArkansas 24 9. PX-Z 22 9. Questat 22

Quote from: December 2025 Pos.   Change   User   Posts 1. ▲(4) arwin100 29 1. ▲(3) cryptoaddictchie 29 3. ▼(1) gunhell16 28 3. NEW Peanutswar 28 5. NEW lionheart78 24 6. NEW Fredomago 23 6. NEW bhadz 23 6. ▼(4) tech30338 23 9. NEW xLays 22 9. ▼(2) julerz12 22

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Quote from: November 2025 Pos.   User   Merits sent 1. cryptoaddictchie 38 2. tech30338 9 3. Mr. Magkaisa 8 4. arwin100 6 4. bettercrypto 6 6. TypoTonic 5 6. crwth 5 8. Peanutswar 4 8. hugeblack 4 10. LogitechMouse 3

Quote from: December 2025 Pos.   Change   User   Merit 1. = cryptoaddictchie 51 2. NEW LoyceV 6 3. NEW SFR10 5 4. NEW julerz12 3 5. NEW Beparanf 2 5. NEW DdmrDdmr 2 5. ▲(3) Peanutswar 2 5. ▲(1) TypoTonic 2 5. ▼(1) arwin100 2 5. NEW bhadz 2

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Quote from: November 2025 No.   User   Merits received 1. tech30338 24 2. julerz12 16 3. TypoTonic 8 4. cryptoaddictchie 7 5. crwth 6 6. SFR10 5 6. Viscore 5 6. arwin100 5 9. Rufsilf 4 10. Russlenat 3

Quote from: December 2025 Pos.   Change   User   Merit 1. NEW coinrifft 13 2. NEW Peanutswar 10 3. = TypoTonic 8 4. ▼(2) julerz12 6 4. ▼(3) tech30338 6 6. = arwin100 5 7. ▼(1) SFR10 4 8. NEW blockman 3 8. ▼(4) cryptoaddictchie 3 10. NEW PX-Z 2

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Quote Pos.   User   Posts   Merit   Ratio 1.   bitcoindusts   1   1   1.00 1.   Cointxz   1   1   1.00 3.   TypoTonic   13   8   0.62 4.   coinrifft   22   13   0.59 5.   Peanutswar   28   10   0.36 6.   julerz12   22   6   0.27 6.   SFR10   15   4   0.27 8.   tech30338   23   6   0.26 9.   Wapfika   4   1   0.25 9.   Maslate   4   1   0.25

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Quote Pos.   Topic   Author   Replies 1.   Flood Control? Crypto Again?   Asuspawer09   40 2.   Binance babalik sa Pinas?   coinrifft   34 2.   Electrum wallet for long term hold   coinrifft   34 4.   Mag-Ingat sa mga ganitong ad sa Facebook   coinrifft   33 5.   Ba't di natututo ang pinoy sa mga rug pull scams?   arwin100   32 6.   Coins.ph nais maging isang all-in-one na financial app...crypto   Rufsilf   31 7.   Bakit hindi ito magawa ng gobyerno natin?   arwin100   28 8.   5 billion launder into crypto?   tech30338   27 8.   Found An Old Bitcoin wallet   aioc   27 8.   50 not licensed trading platforms blinock ng NTC   bhadz   27

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Quote Pos.   Title   Author   Merit 1.   Paano maaring ma-wala ang Bitcoin mo gamit lang ang CTRL-C CTRL-V   Peanutswar   8 2.   $50 Million worth Dahil sa address poisoning   tech30338   5 3.   Pilipinas Local Board Statistics (Brief Monthly Overview)   TypoTonic   4 3.   Mag-Ingat sa mga ganitong ad sa Facebook   coinrifft   4 5.   Electrum wallet for long term hold   coinrifft   3 5.   Privacy vs Anonymity   coinrifft   3 7.   Proof of Authentication Local Community PH   cryptoaddictchie   2 7.   GoTyme GO Crypto meron na!   blockman   2 7.   Ba't di natututo ang pinoy sa mga rug pull scams?   arwin100   2 7.   Re: $50 Million worth Dahil sa address poisoning   TypoTonic   2

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• December experienced a slowdown in terms of engagement, indicated by the reduced number of posts and merits.
• Community participation remains healthy, but focuses more on news-driven discussions.
• Merit distribution was a lot more centralized, relying heavily on our local merit source.
• Post quality seemed to have lowered slightly, as shown by the lower merit/post ratios, and fewer merited posts.

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Data reference:

• BitList - all in one BitcoinTalk archive by TryNinja
• Bitcointalk Merit Dashboard by DdmrDdmr

Inspired by:

• [CHARTS] Brief monthly overview of the local boards activity by Rikafip
• [Meta] Italian Section Trends: December 2025 by fillippone
• Bitcointalk Italian Board Monthly Analysis – December 2025 by *Ace*

grazie per gli aggiornamenti, mi sono riletto le regole e bisogna aver guadagnato negli ultimi 120 giorni 10 meriti.
io ne ho guadagnati 11 quindi dai, provo a votare non so se riuscirò a farlo bene o per tempo, non avevo riflettuto su chi voltare.
Di sicuro ammiro icopress per tutto l'impegno che ci mette a gestirlo, ma anche LoyceV fa veramente tanto.

I personally won't do it, without other stronger reason. But i don't disagree with other member who decide to leave negative feedback.




I have few questions,
1. Does that mean tag from Satofan44 is correct / appropriate ?
2. Why do you falsely accuse AuchanX?

You could use these elements
Post
Post_120d
Merit
Merit_120d
Profile age
Create a logarithmic formula where inactivity is not penalised.

I don't know, could this be a feasible idea?

Have you played with the config or just using the defaults?

Because it's weird that it has to use more resources than the default "worker_threads" config has detected (0 = auto-detect CPU cores)
You may set a lower value than your VPS' CPU cores if you want to prevent CPU stealing.

While you're at it, like Bitcoin Core, it has a "txhash_cache" option to potentially make it more responsive if your system has enough memory.
The 128MB default is too low for your VPS' memory.

Haha LoyceV.

This one is interesting but it is not a new discovery in the forum, at least one forum member discovered years ago. The user is actmyname, I believe you knew him too. 

I only picked a random topic from my quick check, it's in 2019 but maybe actmyname knew about this interesing posting style before 2019.

My idea was something like:

An indicator trying to determine the strength of the momentum of the “good post” like the MACD in technical analysis.

Unfortunately, I don't have access to all the Merit data, so I used what I could find and use, so airdropped Merits will obviously be counted in the total Merits earned.

Yes, unfortunately, if a user is inactive, their score is reset to zero using this formula.
The third point, however, is not entirely accurate. It increases if posts are deleted, but the main factor is determined by the Merits earned in 120 days.

However, I would like to reiterate that this is obviously a trial. Perhaps something similar could be implemented directly in the forum without the need for extensions or scripts.

I have created a formula, which is quite simple.
I take the Merits earned in the last 120 days and multiply them by the total Merits earned over time, then divide the product by the number of posts written in the forum.

(Merit120 * Merit) / Total_posts = Quality score

This is the result that is displayed in user profile page.







fillippone, LoyceV, was this something that interested you? Obviously, this is a test! And if it works, I'll share it with everyone.

I will look at both of you, ABCbits and AuchanX, separately.

ABCbits,lovesmayfamilis,AuchanX,LoyceV

You four have deliberately tagged me using false information and false accusations against me. You will be judged, and that will happen very soon. You are not good people.

He is again spreading fake posts generated by AI on the technical board. I have submitted all the details in the AI ​​Spam Report Reference Thread.Almost a year after getting the tag from you, he has woken up and started generating posts generated by AI again.

A junior member is spamming the technical board with AI generated posts. I am submitting all the details here. He has already been tagged by @LoyceV and @ABCbits. But now I feel his false fake posts need to be deleted.

User: Assiduous

Copyleaks: 100% AI
Sapling: 99% AI
Quillbot: 38% AI
Stealthwriter: 100% AI
Originality: 100% AI

Copyleaks: 100% AI
Sapling: 99% AI
Quillbot: 89% AI
Stealthwriter: 94% AI
Originality: 100% AI

Copyleaks: 100% AI
Sapling: 99% AI
Quillbot: No AI Detected
Stealthwriter: 100% AI
Originality: 100% AI

Maybe these are cases where we need some Satofan44's to wake up in us and leave red tags. It is obviously account farming, and only red trust can devalue that business.
By merit, this account is a member rank. The moment he reaches a rank that is acceptable in the signature campaign, he will appear here with an appeal to remove the current neutral 'spammer' tags.

Yeah. Looking at past few months, it seems whoever doing this keep creating new account once they receive tag/trust feedback. I agree it feels pointless these days, but i simply hate so much seeing  spam on certain board i visit.

Does your family know that you own bitcoin and how they will recover it in case something happens to you? It isn't clear from the way you constructed the above sentence. Will they find your seed accidentally or do they know where to look? If they already know what they are supposed to do and where to look, then teach them about the passphrase in advance as well. Make multiple copies of it and tell them where they are. These are all things that should be handled while you are alive, healthy, and sane.


You should try entering a seed phrase or a long and complex passphrase on a Blockstream Jade, which has left/right navigational buttons to navigate through the letters of the alphabet, numbers, and symbols. It's a lot of fun.


I would even go one step further and send a small test transaction to the restored wallet. After that, send it back out again to ensure that it's working properly. That gives me greater peace of mind.

Do you already have a formula in mind?
I would be very curious to see it in action and give you some feedback on it. Determining whether a post is of high quality or not is very difficult, so how could you do that simply by using this data? In my opinion, it could generate false positives.
But if it can help distinguish between those who only post for signature campaigns and those who are actually trying to contribute to this forum, then the script could still be useful.

Hello! I have been messing around with VanitySearch a lot lately, and I would like to get acquainted with the split-key functionality. Instead of making addresses for myself that I won't use, I figured others may be able to benefit from the GPU resources — and I can learn in the process. This idea is entirely inspired by LoyceV, so full credit goes to them and their previous display of generosity.

Notes and constraints

• Addresses will be legacy/compressed
• 3-5 case-sensitive character prefixes can be completed almost instantly
• 6-7 case-sensitive character prefixes are a bit more work but are still possible in a very reasonable time frame
• 8+ case-sensitive character prefixes would take much more time and may not be feasible
• For case-insensitive prefixes: I haven't played around with the probabilities relative to my mkey/s numbers enough to find out what my limit is, but I'm willing to experiment

Original thread: Pretty Addy Giveaway - part 2

Not convinced until I am able to post some moving text



Now imagine what you post there moving across from left to right. That would be quite a mess, wouldn't it? 

On a serious note, I wonder why the moving texts were disabled. Were they so annoying?

Work in progress...

A native bitcointalk user. You know when you see someone's username and avatar, and you just think they have been here forever? Few members give me this impression, and condoras was one of them. Rest in peace...

A singular asset for the bitcointalk community. Do I need to say more?
Like the legend says "and those without whom Bitcointalk is unimaginable."
No other name comes close, and not because the others aren't good enough, but because Loyce sets the bar very high.

Ask a technical question, you'll probably see one of those guys throwing high quality replies. I can't imagine how many newbies they have helped, maybe many people would have given up on bitcoin if not for those guys spending their time helping everybody.


I would honestly put BitList here, but I don't know if it's weird for me to basically vote on myself (). Still thinking...

I have received many PMs from him asking for help to gather data for his local board analysis. I love seeing the forum through numbers and charts and I think *Ace* shares the same feeling. I would say he is me, but italian.

PowerGlove is theymos on steroids. From the unknown security flaws disclosed, to the many QoL improvements... he made the forum better to everyone. The same could be said about Mitchell and his nuking-capable bot. I've seen what the scam bots can do to this forum (rip my notifications), and he is the first line of defense against the hordes that would break the forum for everyone.

I can't think of anyone that uses the bitlist archive (previously called ninjastic) for spam busting as much as lovesmayfamilis. My notifications speak for themselves.

sabotag3x is the name that always come to mind when thinking of the Portuguese board. He has been here since forever and is a real community member. He lead the work to create the first portuguese BIP39 word list, from start to finish, here on bitcointalk, and has reached all of the participants to share an airdrop (~$1000+ for each). joker_josue is omniscient, even before talkimg he was participating in every topic, without a single spammy post. There is no portuguese board without our friend from Portugal.

The only confirmed women on the Portuguese board. I don't know if there are any other hidden ones, but Mindyspace is the one that comes to mind to break a bit the uniqueness of our board.

Hmmm, I did not think of that.  For extreme privacy, I will download their controls to my web server.You can't really ignore AI anymore.  Last year Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama announced the appointment of an AI named Diella (meaning "Sun") as the new Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence.  It's primary purpose is to oversee and manage public tenders and procurement processes. (to eliminate corruption, bias, and nepotism from these systems by having an impartial AI handle decision-making for state contracts)

I totally agreed to what you said..
There is what we calls individual "dichotomy" which anyone is subjected to how quality a thing could be to them, I may value a post very well and give merits to it while others may see it and scroll away of it. This doesn't mean that they don't value but they are not touched to merit that post as they don't have it something that helps them, whereas, anyone whom the post helps can actually gives merits to the post without them missing it. There people who gives merits based on that someone else already given it so they may also want to appreciate it as what others did without knowing they must give it merits.

I was checking the forum to see how to find certain data. My idea was to use fetch via JS and take the data directly from the DOM of forum, without using external services.
In this case, I wanted to use four important pieces of data:
1. Total posts
2. Total merits received
3. Total merits received in the last 120 days
4. Profile age

And create an ad hoc formula to determine the user's quality rating

For example
>100 = Legend
>80 <100 = top contributor
>50 <80 = good poster
>20 <50 = normal user
<=20 shitposter

This is just an example, the main problem would be assigning this score.
The formula to use, and whether it is reliable as a formula!
Let's say it's a fairly complex idea! I would like to hear your thoughts on this.

That would be my idea, as suggested by LoyceV analysis. Two ratio: merit/post since registration (something that should be easily achievable by parsing the very same informations already displayed, and the merit/posts ratio of the last 120 days.
I have no clue which trickery you could use for this last ratio.

Here I am, Fillippone! I've read part of the thread, not all of it to be honest. But what exactly would you like to see included in a userscript or web browser extension?
Let's see if I can be of help or if it's something complicated.
Unfortunately, evaluating a post is always subjective! What I might label as a quality post, you might label as useless or not very useful.

I was thinking of adding a figure under each user profile that calculates the total average of Merits received based on the posts written. Could that be useful?