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found some interesting poll on other website, where users were putting their roles in the industry, and it would be interesting to see disposition in Bitcointalk forum, where are you?

- newcomers are mostly new members in the industry, just getting to learn something about the industry (it would be good to describe them as BTC/ETH owners, but most newbies are going for altcoin scams, unfortunately)
- regulars are here and within crypto portals on daily basis, but their investing is limited to ETH, BTC and some top 10 coins
- enthusiasts are trying to improve their earnings with good altcoin projects in their portfolio, within this bull period
- professionals are employees within industry
- project owners are company owners (no matter size)
- Bitcoiner should be seen as it is, as people oriented primarily to Bitcoin
- Fudsters are non-believers
- Shitposters - as the name say
- Influencers have some social media channel to promote cryptocurrencies, no matter size for this voting

and if you indicate that you are a project owner, you can put link to your project here in the topic

I voted for Enthusiast although I could have selected Regular or Professional as well. I am here almost on a daily basis which makes me a regular. I am an Enthusiast, but I am trying to improve my Bitcoin reserves and not my altcoin holdings as it's described in your OP. I provide some off-forum services for bitcoin which would make me a part-time Professional as well. 

interesting point, I could enter Bitcoiner in the list as well, did not thought about it, but yeah, some people in the forum are certainly just want to increase their Bitcoin holdings, not altcoins

and there is a big difference between your description, and myself, but both of us entered as Enthusiast :) , I am here regularly, but trying to acquire altcoins as well, and can hardly tell that could be Professional, since I am not working within any crypto project at the moment, or ever
although, that could change in the future

Enthusiast for me too . It is difficult to define everyone and I certainly crossover into a few of the other definitions as well .

Voted as Bitcoiner, hope to see more votes into that category. Even though I am holding altcoins still the intention of holding altcoins is just to increase my bitcoin holdings by doing bump and dump. And also I am learning more and more about blockchain technically so I may choose a career related to that in future but for now I am just a holder not doing any professional jobs in it other than trading.

Bitcoiner is just added, and it is expected to have more votes, maybe it would have more if it were there from the beginning
nevertheless, it is hard to put so many choices, and ensure that those are not overlapping, so this six should be enough for everyone to find themselves, even if that is what is most appropriate, not only

however, there is a lot of Bitcoiners on the forum, I am sure, and should have that from the beginning

I would like to suggest a change for the description on the regular poll; about holding at least one coin besides top10, coins to invest in is mostly about preference. A lot of veteran users in the cryptocurrency space are all into Bitcoin as they believe it's the most ideal currency.
I would say I'm an enthusiast as I vsist the forum and read on topics everyday.

Most people here in the forum would really fall being an Enthusiasts and I, myself is considering one of it and that's not I think a surprising feat. I think you should at least provide a simple description about the Bitcoiner in the poll at least to get some people know about them especially if there are Newcomers will try to pass by this thread.

I don't know how to define myself in this situation. I am between enthusiast and professional, but sometimes I am just a regular person, become an object for this crypto industry. So, let's called it a "TedMosby". I made my own option, it's unique only to me.

I do what I love about crypto, but sometimes I got a professional contract because of that.
My best of the best achievement so far in this crypto industry is, talking bad things about a crypto project during lunch break at a crypto summit a few years ago.
guess what? I don't know that the guy who sat 45 degrees in front of me is the co-founder of that project. Yes, we are at the same 1m x 1.5m table.

I don't think there's a need to have "Bitcoiner", "enthusiast", and "regular". Since, I'd like to think if you are a regular, you're enthusiastic about Bitcoin, which by every definition probably means you are considered a "Bitcoiner" by everyone outside the industry, and visa versa for all of these.

Personally, I think if you're on this forum you are very much a all of the above. Since, this forum software is rather dated compared to more conventional modern means i.e Reddit is usually the go to place for social media revolving around a project or technology. This forum, usually brings better discussion or at the very least more in depth thought out responses because of the nature, since Reddit is very much catered to short typed out replies.

The demographics I'd be interested in seeing would be;. how many of those that are employed by a Bitcoin project, what percentage of those are paid in Bitcoin, and how many project owners are seeking to employ people with the primary pay being in Bitcoin.

I answered "Enthusiast" but I could go for "Regular" or "Bitcoiner" as well.

There are so many differences in opinion when it comes to what defines a Bitcoiner. And what about Bitcoin miners? Are they professionals?

from my point of view, miners are professionals, they are practically working in the industry
yeah, so choices are similar, but it is hard to put all choices there, and to have them all totally different

just as someone said, we are all unique, and it is hard to made a mold, that all of us find themselves a place in there

I voted for "Bitcoiner" but I do consider myself to be almost all of the above options ^{[yes, that also includes "Newcomer" since I'm still learning new things from time to time]} apart from being a project owner ^[ATM]...

• Results would've been more accurate if we had the option to vote for multiple roles.

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You have a point but my view is more in line with Google's definition of Bitcoiners:

Somewhere on twitter I recently read this definition: "They say bitcoiners live in their moms' basements... What they don't say is who bought her the house."

I kind of liked this version. :D

Probably everyone who visits this forum daily will be enthusiasts. We have an interest in cryptocurrencies, some have a penchant for bitcoin or alternative coins. But I can relate myself to both beginners and ordinary ones, since there is more and more information every day, and we are constantly learning something new.
But if we talk about the preferences of coins, then this is of course bitcoin.

this is really true, crypto is really dynamic industry and things are going on a fast track, that brings a lot of innovations, but also hacks and scams with it
you should be a constant learner to be up-to-date with industry developments

nevertheless, most of innovations are happening outside from core Bitcoin, in my opinion

Enthusiast is as far as I'm likely ever to go in the crypto space, and that's fine by me.  I'm happy just watching what bitcoin does and how it's slowly being adopted worldwide. 

I don't exactly read bitcoin news every day or even every week (outside of this forum), but I do get a lot of information out of bitcointalk.  Usually when something big in the bitcoin world happens, there are at least one or two threads about it.  I'm not sure how much the "mainstream" crypto news sites can be trusted; they kind of seem to me like gold/silver websites like kitco--there's a huge bias toward gold/silver and the reporting isn't really objective.

Bitcoiner only.. None of the other categories describe me..
Oh, well I guess I own some xcp, but they are bitcoins too..

I don’t read about new projects often, really don’t much care..
Don’t work in crypto.. Don’t own any projects..

Just a Bitcoin idealist.. HODL

I prefer to identify as a different category - Bitcoin OG

since I added Bitcoiner as an option, there is a competition between Enthusiast and Bitcoiner option
maybe Bitcoiner would be without competition if was there from the start

nevertheless, interesting enough that there is no project owners, or they do not want to declare as such

I do agree with your point since I don't see any difference when categorizing yourself in one of the 3 as you can be all of them. If someone can said that he is a "regular" then he probably had reads projects on a daily basis and news about cryptocurrencies which he can be called as an "enthusiast" as well.

With that being said @OP I think you have left out some roles that are already existing in the industry and these are:

-Bitcoin Maximalist
-"Influencers"
-Fudsters/Nocoiners (which I doubt that someone will admit to this but obviously we know who they are in the forum)

I think that I belong to this point, but not reading about cryptocurrencies and projects every day  ;D
COmmonly I will be interested in some new projects that have been listed in top exchanges and see for the fundamentals and also the progress.
I have some altcoins that are not into the top 10 and I love them for short-term investment and also preparation for the altcoin season.
Although sometimes, I always think that it may be risky, this is the way, I only will take the risks that I can afford.

you need to add another option for peeps like me: shitposter

since that option doesnt (yet?) exist i voted bitcoiner as thats the closest i guess

edit: ive mined btc (on gpus/fpgas back in the day) and alts currently (to sell for btc) and read here most every day. but thats about it.

I'm halfway from being a regular but I am not a newcomer at the same time. I am holding cryptocurrencies but it is just limited popular coins like BTC and ETH.

I am not regular here but I do read sometime when I have free time to keep myself updated.

I Choose Enthusiast, Because every day I only read about news on cointelegraphs and other crypto news sites and look for good start-up projects.

I Hope One Day I Can Work in the Blockchain / Cryptocurrency Industry.

Hidden Gems is my life beside of Bitcoin...

will added Influencers and Fudsters, do not you think that Bitcoiner and Bitcoin Maximalist are pretty much the same?
there are claims that Regular and Enthusiast are the same as well, and for me, Regular is more like a Investor, and Enthusiast a more technical guy that follow trends, maybe I am wrong


will add shitposter, for the matter to see will someone state that he is a shit-poster :)

It's difficult to quantify.  HODLer and part-time FUD-buster, I guess.  Not sure how else to describe my "role".  Supporter?  Ideological proselytiser?  My contributions here probably lean more towards philosophical than technical, but I can verbally kerb-stomp some trolls in my spare time, so hopefully that's helpful in some small way.  I suppose Bitcoiner is the closest match in the list.

It's up to you because this is your poll, If I have suggested something that is already in your poll it's because some of your options don't have any description when I have posted my suggestion. Also if you think that being an Enthusiast is about the technical points of cryptocurrencies I think you should edit your description for it as "I read about cryptocurrencies and projects every day" doesn't really help differentiate it from being a regular guy in the crypto industry at least that's how I look at things.

Enthusiast, In my opinion, this is the most appropriate choice to define myself in this industry although I can still be categorized into 5-6 other choice. Almost everyone involved in this industry has been considered a bitcoiner by people outside the forum even though in essence they are just acting as an altcoiner. Maybe bitcoiners are a fitting assumption considering we continue to be involved in bitcoin forum. I just wanted to say that you are all is sathosi simply because you are all part of the implementation of the satoshi idea of ​​a decentralized payment system called "bitcoin".

It was quite difficult to choose option to vote because few of them fits for me and only 1 vote is allowed. Both Enthusiast and Regular fits for me. But in the ende, I decided to go with Bitcoiner - really like this word and I think it reflect me best.

Bitcoiner? What is the difference with enthusiast? Maybe much better OP to complete or add complete name for a typical choice.

Cause I consider myself as a crupto enthusiast by I am more on the side of the altcoin rather than bitcoin. But Don't get me wrong I love bitcoin, but I like more altcoins when it comes to new discovery and applications.

Cause if you summarize it every user here is bitcoiners for using bitcoin.

for the matter of this topic, I consider Bitcoiner as someone oriented to Bitcoin primarily, and Enthusiast is oriented to more crypto currencies, not just Bitcoin, following all news and developments on daily level
from your explanation, I would tell that you are more Enthusiast than Bitcoiner

nevertheless, it would be hard to put enough options to fit all members, so everyone decide for himself regarding most appropriate option