Anyone else have any updates?
Hehe, I never thought this thread would be resurrected, but I think it's interesting to look at what you posted in the past (if you did it) and see what you were able to accomplish. In my case, on Dec. 29th, 2019, I wrote the following:
I am happy I managed to obtain the Full Member rank in 2019! I'll do my best to reach Senior when the activity will allow me (in April 2020); of course, hoping I will earn the merits needed as well.
I will try to revitalize somehow the Romanian board, which has so few posts lately. I don't know how I can do that, because even 2 merits giveaways I organized there didn't determine users to become active. But I will keep trying.
In the international sections (mostly Beginners & Help) I will keep try to raise awareness about the anarchic concepts behind crypto and about the history of the early crypto anarchists - the Cypherpunks, which are the founding fathers of this phenomena (for example, articles like
this one).
I managed indeed to become Sr. Member in April 2020.
Regarding revamping of Romanian board, although I really tried hard, I can not say I was successful, but it was not my fault. I involved in all possible discussions there, but it seems that excepting a very few regular users (such as 20kevin20, NeuroticFish and, occasionally IonCreanga) and a bunch of newbies posting once or twice per year, nobody else is active in the Romanian board. My two (
two, not one!!!) merit giveaways attracted only 2 users during the entire year. If even merits don't attract users to get involved in being active, I really don't know what could...
Regarding raising awareness about the libertarian and anarchic concepts behind Bitcoin, I can say that I am proud of my work. I believe that articles like the following ones helped the readers and they understood more about Bitcoin fundamental ideas (the last one being also my 1000th post here):
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Governs try to limit access of public to information and freedom since ages-
Phil Zimmermann's thoughts about PGP - We all should read them-
The call for Julian Assange || The WikiLeaks Manifesto - We all should read it-
Bitcoin: The dream of Cypherpunks, libertarians and crypto-anarchists
In the end, I can say that I achieved 2 out of three goals, which is not bad at all