Gold Chain Puzzle || Beautiful Logic Puzzle || 149 links

A gold merchant has a linear gold chain that consists of 149 interlocked links He moves to a different city and finds an apartment for rent. The landlord just has one condition that every week the merchant should pay him one link from his gold chain as the rent for the apartment. The merchant has to stay in the apartment for 149 weeks.. and he realizes that he has to cut the links of the chain several times to pay the weekly rent. Being a smart and logical person, he comes up with an optimized plan to have minimum number of cuts in the chain... while ensuring that he can pay one link at the end of every week. What's the minimum number of cuts the merchant makes in the chain, so that he pays one link at the end of every week ?? Hint: The landlord is not going to spend any link until all 149 weeks are completed. You can share Puzzles, math problems or any suggestions about upcoming videos. I am also planning to make videos on logical concepts. So I would highly appreciate your contribution to this logical community. Facebook and gmail link are below : --------------------------------------------------------- Gmail : [email protected] Facebook(message) :   / mohammmedammar   Also try to solve these rebus puzzles Guess the meaning | REBUS Puzzles Episode #3    • Guess the meaning | REBUS Puzzles Episode #3   REBUS Puzzles Episode #2 || Are you genius to solve these ??    • REBUS Puzzles Episode #2 || Are you a geni...   How many of these can you solve || REBUS Puzzles Episode #1    • How many of these can you solve || REBUS P...