Average gross salary ≠ household income. At 4 people per household, that would still be around $22k.

China GDP per capita = $10000

Family = 4 people

Therefore, average family income = $40000/year.

Where do you get $25/year from?

Bitcoin is definitely scalable. The number of transactions is proportional to n², where n is the number of users. n cannot exceed the population of Earth, which is expected to peak at 10 billion. By contrast, storage space grows exponentially (even faster than Moore's Law).

I have more posts than the entire Dutch language forum .

Saluton.

Mi konsentas. Ĉu estas io, kio akceptas Bitmono?

I noticed that we now have 2000000 posts on BitcoinTalk. No celebrations?

I know it isn't straight, but I feel we're overdue for some volatility. I have a feeling it should either be up to ~150 or down to ~100 by next week.

I rewrote the disputed sentence to have a NPOV. WP:UNDUE does not apply here because Bitcoin is commonly, even if incorrectly, associated with illicit transactions.

Original, biased:

New:

Update:

Currencies left

Kuwaiti Dinar	3.513336	31.31
Bahraini Dinar	2.652102	23.63
Omani Rial	2.598415	23.15
Latvian Lat	1.873713	16.70
British Pound	1.544687	13.76
Euro	1.304278	11.62
Swiss Franc	1.054617	9.40
Australian Dollar	1.009119	8.99
United States Dollar	1.000000	8.91
Canadian Dollar	0.993294	8.85
New Zealand Dollar	0.839793	7.48
Bruneian Dollar	0.810875	7.23
Singapore Dollar	0.810875	7.23
Libyan Dinar	0.789266	7.03
Bulgarian Lev	0.668300	5.96
Turkish Lira	0.555934	4.95
Brazilian Real	0.497407	4.43
Lithuanian Litas	0.377745	3.37
Malaysian Ringgit	0.336248	3.00
Polish Zloty	0.315965	2.82
Romanian New Leu	0.301535	2.69
Israeli Shekel	0.281297	2.51
Qatari Riyal	0.274665	2.45
Emirati Dirham	0.272257	2.43
Saudi Arabian Riyal	0.266646	2.38
Argentine Peso	0.191755	1.71
Danish Krone	0.175002	1.56
Norwegian Krone	0.172963	1.54
Croatian Kuna	0.171953	1.53
Chinese Yuan Renminbi	0.163100	1.45
Venezuelan Bolivar	0.159041	1.42
Trinidadian Dollar	0.155767	1.39
Swedish Krona	0.152577	1.36
Hong Kong Dollar	0.128882	1.15
Botswana Pula	0.123400	1.10
Bitmill	0.112220	1.00

Currencies surpassed

Bitmill	0.112220	1.00
South African Rand	0.110838	0.99

To collect better statistics, I have updated my script. It will take the largest threads in Other and assign them to their own languages. Here's the table I am using right now:


Here's the current output:


I also made a chart explaining the changes in languages over the past 4 days. The only noticeable change was Chinese surpassing French.



In the 4 days of data I collected, it seems BitcoinTalk has become more multilingual. English, Italian, Russian, and Hebrew lost usage share. All other languages with subsections gained usage share. Leading the chase was Chinese, followed quite distantly by Spanish, Romanian, and German.

In terms of absolute growth, English outpaced all other languages combined. Of the other languages, Russian and Chinese led absolute growth, with German a close third.

In terms of relative growth, Chinese puts the rest of the languages far into the dust, growing almost 25% in four days. Korean came second, but with few posts to start with. Italian demonstrated the most laggard relative growth of the languages tracked.

I will also retroactively add data for the new languages. Updates for them coming later.

Yesterday, a milestone was reached. The custom hardware section, itself a subforum of the much smaller "Hardware" forum, has just gained its 48264^th post.

This might not seem like anything important. That is, until one considers that that number is greater than the Mining forum—two levels up from the "Custom Hardware" forum.

It is clear that "custom hardware" is no longer the niche it used to be. There are numerous logical solutions:

• Swap "Custom hardware" with "hardware". Call "custom hardware" just "Hardware", and the current "Hardware" will become "Vintage hardware".
• Merge "Custom hardware" into "hardware". This will require some cleanup.
• Split "Custom hardware" from "hardware", relocating it as a subforum of "Mining", and call it "Mining hardware". Rename "Hardware" to "Vintage hardware".
• Vacate the threads in the "Hardware" forum to new "ASIC", "FPGA", and "Vintage" subfora. "Custom Hardware" is relocated to the former two. "Hardware" becomes reserved for discussion about mining hardware in general.

Link?

XBT has meant 1 full bitcoin for a while now (since 2011). I highly doubt we can, or should, change it now. That would just provoke ambiguity.

The standard in Forex is generally 4 decimal digits.

To be honest, I'm appalled that Josh doesn't have the scammer tag. 1000 BTC is a lot of money to default on. The bet wasn't especially formal, but it clearly wasn't a joke. This is in the same ballpark as Matthew's, which got him a scammer tag.

That isn't news. Nothing "new" was covered in the report. Most people already know about Bitcoin, and the report is unlikely to do much.

Plenty of news about Bitcoin, sure. But contrary to popular belief most already know about it. The news does not cover anything big that happened in Bitcoin.

CoinLab's lawsuit was news, and was when I took out my short (and sure enough, CoinLab's news brought price down).

This is the only real good news we've had in a month or so.

There wasn't any real news for a month. This is real news. Price already up 2% in a matter of hours.

Liquidated my short position at $110. This is big and I'm a bull now.

Remember when Bitcoin was just about to reach parity? Actually, I don't. I entered the community past that point.

With the recent initiative to switch to mBTC, I felt it productive to create a new parity thread. We have a few currencies left to break through. So without further ado, let's begin.

Currencies left to cross

Name	Value (USD)	Value (mBTC)
Kuwaiti Dinar	3.513089	31.88
Bahraini Dinar	2.652314	24.07
Omani Rial	2.597065	23.57
Latvian Lat	1.867627	16.95
British Pound	1.548234	14.05
Euro	1.307723	11.87
Swiss Franc	1.063333	9.65
Australian Dollar	1.018428	9.24
Canadian Dollar	0.995402	9.03
New Zealand Dollar	0.844739	7.67
Bruneian Dollar	0.811596	7.36
Singapore Dollar	0.811596	7.36
Libyan Dinar	0.788644	7.16
Bulgarian Lev	0.668706	6.07
Turkish Lira	0.556758	5.05
Brazilian Real	0.498218	4.52
Lithuanian Litas	0.378743	3.44
Malaysian Ringgit	0.335289	3.04
Polish Zloty	0.315840	2.87
Romanian New Leu	0.303151	2.75
Israeli Shekel	0.280880	2.55
Qatari Riyal	0.274665	2.49
Emirati Dirham	0.272257	2.47
Saudi Arabian Riyal	0.266532	2.42
Argentine Peso	0.191939	1.74
Danish Krone	0.175481	1.59
Croatian Kuna	0.172723	1.57
Norwegian Krone	0.171127	1.55
Chinese Yuan Renminbi	0.162491	1.47
Venezuelan Bolivar	0.158884	1.44
Trinidadian Dollar	0.155767	1.41
Swedish Krona	0.153163	1.39
Hong Kong Dollar	0.128857	1.17
Botswana Pula	0.122500	1.11
South African Rand	0.110631	1.00
Bitmill	0.110200	1.00

Maybe the Greeks should get their own forum then. I think a barrier should be set at, say, 500 posts in Other to get a new subforum.