Bitcoin Forum

...there was much discussion on this forum about how many bitcoin users there were, and many doubters questioned whether there were, or would ever be, more than 10K people who used or cared about bitcoin at all.

At this time, this forum alone has over 68K registered members.  While that's certainly a far cry from a 'critical mass' of users, the number of people discovering Bitcoin each day is rising exponetially.

this is a great comment.

and very positive. sometimes I feel that in the Bitcoin forum, the percentage of people being negative and complaining about everything is 80%. it should be the opposite.
people trying to see the positive and work jointly on ways to make it grow

60,000 of those are Atlas' accounts.  Another 7,000 belong to goons.  Subtracting scammers and their related sock puppet accounts, bitcoin has 5 legitimate users.  Last year there were four, though; so at this rate it will only be about 43.5 years before there are 68,000 legitimate users. 

^ This was ruined by below and is a perfect example

That's actually funny.

I SECOND THIS

Just keep in mind that many people may have and use Bitcoin and not be a registered member of this forum. I for example joined this forum over two months after I bought my first Bitcoin.

about a year ago this forum already had >30k users and the network had way more nodes than it has now....

in terms of good news regarding adoption i value torrentleech and ogrr using bitcoin much higher. the >1000 registered merchants bitpay has is nothing to sneeze at either.

Email users vs email servers. Ignore nodes when contemplating bitcoin users.

the bad news: the official punishment for not reading what you quote is being hanged by the balls.
the good news: ignoring half of what you quote only gets you hanged by your left ball.

Maybe it was two years ago.  I'm old, so a year, give or take, isn't all that much anymore.

In your calculations, did you take into consideration the increase in difficulty due to Atlas procreating?

Someone actually thought that?

Yes, we had a great many hecklers on this forum in the first year at least.  Some are still around, I think.

Pictures or it didn't happen.  I'm not sure I'd believe it with pictures.

thirded. :D

Any metrics on daily/weekly unique users logging in? (ie active users).

Yes

In the Auction forum the "Advertise on this forum" threads, e.g:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=121372.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=121372.0)

there is a link to the ad stats https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adstats (https://bitcointalk.org/adrotate.php?adstats), which gives some relevant stats for the period the ad was running, typically ~1 week.

http://www.trafficestimate.com/www.bitcointalk.org (http://www.trafficestimate.com/www.bitcointalk.org)
Www.bitcointalk.org has received an estimated 1,189,000 visits over the last 30 days.

http://www.quantcast.com/www.bitcointalk.org (http://www.quantcast.com/www.bitcointalk.org)
This site reaches approximately 15,351 U.S. monthly people.
Thats US.
Note: Due to a small data sample, estimates are rough.

http://www.cubestat.com/www.bitcointalk.org (http://www.cubestat.com/www.bitcointalk.org)
Website Worth: $38,653.50
Daily Pageviews: 17,650

Fourthed. (Of course, these have all just been different Atlas accounts.  :D)

How would a dude from other side of town know how many people visited your house through a secret underground passage? Cubestat reports site age of 2 months, nuff said.

Number of registered accounts isn't reliable neither, as typically 80-90% of forum visitors does not register.

I hope you are not serious with relying on such websites to provide info

That would require Atlas to have sex.  My calculations are correct.   :)

It would be funny if it were not so sad. Seriously, there are at most maybe 5.25 legitimate users. So the ECB has nothing to see here and should just continue ignoring Bitcoin.

That would likely cause the end of the world as we know it.

China has more than 10K bitcoiners, and merely visit this forum.