Bitcoin Forum

Is it just me or keep new users flooding into the Speculation forum lately?

This is just my impression, but forum stats seem to support my feeling:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats


So hands up! Who is new here and why did you sign up?

I'm new and I signed up because I wanted to start exchanging btc face to face, plus sell anything I can make or source locally. I'm trying to build up some btc balance it's my latest interest.

Oh yeah and the speculation board is definitely one of the most entertaining

Yeah we have cookies and secret rockets.

I'm fairly new... I just picked up bitcoin as a side hobby a few months ago and find all the speculation fun! ^.^

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enjoy your denial

enjoy yours too.  :D


I'm not saying they are all sockpuppets. But if somebody finds his way here after just 10-20 posts that is highly suspicious. Even more so if they appear to have a certain attitude... It just fits well together. People just don't wanna damage the reputation of their main account but they surely make new ones in order to squeeze the last sucker out using shitposting.

I don't see any increase in new users registered - it is the same a little about 1000 users per half month as has been for the last half a year.

Oh look *there's an ignore button too!*

I joined in april/may.  When I first heard about bitcoin during the bubble last year I took a quick glance and while I didn't exactly think "bubble" I knew I had missed the opportunity.  I was getting very afraid about the long term stability of certain fiat currencies and banks.  I am not a doomsayer; I'm not worried about "hyper" inflation... inflation like in the 70's in USA (10-20%) will be bad enough.  But I took a quick look at gold/silver and realized that I'd missed that opportunity :-(.

Then I did not bother to investigate for months because of the SR stigma.  When Scientific American ran a page on it as one of the greatest ideas of the decade or something, I decided to give it another look and was pleasantly surprised to see the price down below 5 bucks, a solid codebase, and a vibrant community.

electicmucus: re sockpuppets -- you are completely missing how the geopolitical climate is causing people to diversify in certain ways.  "sockpuppets" don't have the fiat to cause this rally -- they would have bought already.  Bitcoin is so small that a bunch of people deciding to put .1 to .5% of their net worth into it (just in case) will have a big effect on the price, but essentially no effect on the lifestyles of those people should BTC tank.

if it does tank again, it will give ppl a 3rd chance at being early adopters

So you think the average bitcointalk user grows an interest in speculating on bitcoin price post by post and ends up in this subforum after >100 posts and hours strolling the other subforums on here??

Let me tell you I only made 1 post in the newbe section and was then whitelisted to make my first post in this very speculation forum(>> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=35083.0).

To me speculation or wealth preservance/diversification is one of the major incentives to take a look at bitcoin. So no suprise a good chunk of new users flock to this forum (especially when price goes up).

I'm new. Not a sockpuppet, just enjoy trading during the workday and come here to get a pulse on the current attitude toward bitcoin.

In the past I've done stock market trading and betting on the UFC as my daytime leisure activity. Trading bitcoins is much more accessible and often just as exciting, so that's where most of my attention is these days.

Why?

When I was new some time ago I lurked a lot before I signed up. But when I did I came quickly to speculation to tell Proudhon to take his neegativity elsewhere. Not that he listened

Linear growth at about 2000 users per month over the past 12 months.

It's not really what I'd consider an exciting growth rate, considering it'd take over 40 years to add just 1 Million users at that rate.

Good thing there are a lot of bitcoiners who have never been here, and a lot who have, but never signed up.

Yes, I believe that to be so too - but it's the linear growth which is unexciting. If the forums are growing linearly - then I expect the whole bitcoin ecosystem is also only growing linearly.

This doesn't look very linear and other wallet sites are seeing similar figures:
http://blockchain.info/charts/my-wallet-n-users

Nice.. but a little too early in the life of the blockchain wallet to be drawing much of a conclusion from that pattern I think.
FWIW - I set up over 5 blockchain wallets, but only one bitcointalk account.

I still feel kinda new,but it wasn't really until the gox got above 10 again did I have any interest again and had many variable coins all over.I think if the news started reporting on BTC there would obviously be another flood.

Yes lol... :D

Check out LocalBitcoins.com (https://localbitcoins.com/).

I'm new.

I started buying BTC in June, after a few months of reading. Turned out to be great timing 8) I'd heard about bitcoin before, and loved the idea, but hadn't had the time to do enough research to get involved in any meaningful way.

Since the growth has been so dramatic it's been a bit hard to shut me up about bitcoin lately :D A few of my mates have since bought BTC. Another has started accepting BTC for her jeans.

Pure speculation, but I'm sure there are many like me, and it's being reflected in the price.

Already on there, only 1 enquiry so far in 2 1/2 months :( I guess there's not much demand in my area *shrug*

I'm new, but I've been lurking (off and on) for over 18 months.

At first I said "Duh, there's a 21 million cap, how's this economy s'posed to grow? Sounds like the Great Depression"

Then I checked out the graph of the long term gold price

Then I bought a little cache of coins

Then some more

Now I'm here, and I'm rich! (I think.... I hope......!)

Not new, but haven't been posting recently. Only really got exciting in the last month or so, and here I am. Was mining and trading last year. Bought Crysis with bitcoins to play on my mining rig ;D

Yep, I'm new.  I've been lurking on speculation for quite a while now, but wanted to make my investment before talking it up.  I've now almost fully invested the amount I've allocated for this, so am coming out of the woodwork.  I'm not what you folks call a "big player".  For me it's a significant proportion of my own savings, but still an amount I can afford to lose, of course.  This makes me what you people would call "long", but I can't quite bring myself to use that jargon yet, so I'll just say I've invested in it.

Long means you've bought and expect it to go up. Short means you have sold borrowed coins and hope to rebuy them at a low price to repay them - expecting the price to go down. It's not really jargon. Welcome! :)

Okay.  Would you agree that it's terminology which is especially defined in relationship to a specific activity, though?


Thanks.

Sure, but it extends to the whole world of trading. Although I live in the trading world so I can see how it's as common as bread to me. Silly me thinking everyone knows what it all means. Sorry! :D