This challenge aims to help reduce spam and shitposting on the forum by rewarding members who create quality content and make meaningful contributions to bitcointalk.
🏆 Share your knowledge, contribute to discussions, and get rewarded for quality posting!
Welcome to the bitcoindata Challenge!
Five winners will receive the following prizes:
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🥇 First Place
$15 (
) 15 Merits
sponsored by tabas ($10) and rdluffy ($5).
🥈 Second Place
$10 (
) 10 Merits
sponsored by stepwilli.
🥉 Third Place
$5 (
) 5 Merits
Cash prize: sponsored by bitwalhr
🎖️ Consolation Prizes (2 winners)
(Only available to Newbies and Jr. Members.)
5 Merits each
Challenge RulesThe challenge has up to five winners each week: First Place, Second Place, Third Place, and two Consolation Prize winners.
Winners are selected on Mondays. Participants may win multiple times throughout the challenge, but cannot win First Place in two consecutive weeks.
1. How do I enter the challenge?- The challenge is open to all English-speaking bitcointalk members, from Newbie to Legendary. I will try to translate some local boards posts other than Portuguese board.
- You must not wear a signature belonging to any paid signature campaign.
- Wearing the optional bitcoindata signature (provided in the following post) is encouraged but not required.
- You may wear other free signatures if you choose not to wear the optional bitcoindata signature.
- You cannot apply to paid signature campaigns while actively participating in this challenge. You will be disqualified.
- Alt accounts: You may not enter the same round with more than one account.
2. When do rounds start and end?Each round lasts
7 days. Posts are counted from
00:00 UTC on Monday through 23:59 UTC on Sunday.
This will be a test round at first. If it works well, I will make another rounds.
3. What is the application deadline?You must submit your application by
Monday at 23:59 UTC to participate in that week's round.
4. How do I win?The goal is simple: write the most substantial and valuable posts during the week.
- You must make at least 7 qualifying posts per week. This minimum helps ensure regular activity, but you do not need to post every day.
- There is no maximum post count. Although you will lose points of even be disqualified if you are shitposting or spamming.
- There is no minimum character count.
- Posts may be made on any English-language board, provided they contribute meaningfully to the discussion.
All boards are eligible. Off-topic? Gambling? Micro Earnings? Ivory Tower? Altcoin Discussion? Wall Observer? Go ahead!
What matters is the
quality of your contributions, not which board you post on. Knowledgeable, thoughtful, well-supported posts that move a discussion forward will earn points.
5. How are posts scored?You weekly activity will be evaluated using four criteria. All of them will be decided by me.
- 1 Board distribution (2.5 points): Posts are distributed across multiple boards rather than concentrated in a single board.
- 2 Contribution to the discussion (2.5 points): Posts are substantial, relevant, and non-repetitive. They add value to the thread instead of merely repeating what others have said.
- 3 Research and documentation (2.5 points): Posts are well-researched and well-documented, with appropriate references and sources where applicable.
- 4 Formatting and readability (2.5 points): Posts are easy to read, use BBCode effectively, and avoid text walls, excessive formatting, and other readability annoyances.
I will review each participant's post history for the week and evaluate their contributions using these criteria. The goal is to reward genuine effort, useful information, and quality discussion.
6. What about AI-generated content? Copy-pasting AI-generated posts is not allowed. This challenge rewards your own knowledge, thinking, research, and contributions to the community.
You may use AI as a tool to research a topic, understand complex concepts, check grammar, generate code, improve readability, or organize your thoughts. However, your posts must reflect your own understanding and contribution.
📝 Application
To enter, submit the following information:
Username:
BTC Address (bech32):
IMPORTANT: Applications until monday October 26th.Round starts on Monday 26th at 00:00 (UTC) and ends October 31st 23:59📊 View the Challenge Spreadsheet
Looking for a
sponsor for the cash prize.
This challenge was inspired by
Joe's Signatureless Challenge, which was a great incentive for me when I was a Jr. Member.
