Bitcointalk.org posts by topic, updatedBelow is a breakdown of the 239 recently most active threads in this forum, captured a few hours ago. For comparison, I copied the similar statistics tallied on June/21 and July/25:
2014-06-21 ! 2014-07-25 ! 2014-09-25 !
--------------+---------------+---------------+
Posts ! % ! Posts ! % ! Posts ! % ! Category
------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------------------------------
8 | 6.7 | 14 | 12.6 | 28 | 11.7 | Off-topic
4 | 3.3 | 7 | 6.3 | 15 | 6.3 | Gambling
18 | 15.0 | 12 | 10.8 | 58 | 24.3 | Bitcoin mining
37 | 30.8 | 22 | 19.8 | 23 | 9.6 | Bitcoin non-mining
53 | 44.2 | 56 | 50.5 | 115 | 48.1 | Altcoins (including mining)
------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------------------------------
120 | 100.0 | 111 | 100.0 | 239 | 100.0 | TOTAL
ExplanationTo create the last table, I quickly copied the first 6 pages of
the list of most recent topics posted to, spanning about 1 hour, and manually classified the 240 threads listed there (minus one repeated entry) in the above categories. (This is not quite a sample of the recent
posts, since each thread was counted only once even if it had several posts within that interval. So the most active threads are under-represented.)
CommentsIn all three epochs, about half of the activity seemed to be related to altcoins. Activity about bitcoin proper (mining and non-mining) was 46%, 31% , and 34% in the three samples; the difference was taken over by gambling and other threads unrelated to cryptocoins.
Among the posts about bitcoin proper, the fraction about mining seems to be increasing.
In June, of 37 posts about bitcoin proper, excluding mining, 18 (49%) were in Chinese language. This time, the proportion was 9 out of 49 (16%) only. (However, this proportion is likely to vary a lot along the day. The last sample was taken at about 02:00--03:00 UTC, which is 10:00--11:00 am in China. I did not record the hour of the previous two samples.)
EDIT: Here are the samples of thread headers used to make those tables:
2014-06-212014-07-252014-09-25The headers were edited to remove funny characters and indicate the language (with [CN] or [Chinese], [RU], [DE] etc.). Titles in some foreign languages were translated through Google.
