376,335 Users registered

[silvestar]

$500,000 a month from managing forums? That'd be amazing, if that's true. Don't think that's realistic though

Where did you find that number?

BitCoin Seller's post? haha. I don't see how they could be making a tenth of that, let alone 500k

According to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=780707.0, the forum has a total income of $285407 in 2013, and an income of 522 btc for Jan-Sept 2014.

[AnonBitCoiner]

$500,000 a month from managing forums? That'd be amazing, if that's true. Don't think that's realistic though

Where did you find that number?

BitCoin Seller's post? haha. I don't see how they could be making a tenth of that, let alone 500k

According to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=780707.0, the forum has a total income of $285407 in 2013, and an income of 522 btc for Jan-Sept 2014.

That's impressive, but the other guy said $500,000 a month haha; $6000000 is quite a bit different from $300000... Six figs is great for managing a forum tho. Very impressed

[freedomno1]

About 20% of all those accounts are probably banned because of spamming & other malicious activities.

Less than that, then again it might be a significant percentage from the last two years
Older accounts possibly joined then forgot their password etc or didn't have a PGP address they could sign with.
Of course theirs inactivity and forgetting accounts still should be closer to 3% on just banning by my guesstimate.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=780707.0
Nice I've never seen the tax sheet always reminds me to check meta at least once every two weeks for changes.

[maurya78]

Has anybody ever plotted new member growth against btc price? Is thre a correlation?

[Loophole]

Has anybody ever plotted new member growth against btc price? Is thre a correlation?

Guess not.
But the number of bitcointalk new members is readily available on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats, it should be very easy to create the plot.


Speaking of the new members stats, any idea why there are so many members in Mar 8 - Mar 10, 2014?
I assume they are created by bot, but did something special happen during that 3 days?

[Gronthaing]

Has anybody ever plotted new member growth against btc price? Is thre a correlation?

Guess not.
But the number of bitcointalk new members is readily available on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats, it should be very easy to create the plot.


Speaking of the new members stats, any idea why there are so many members in Mar 8 - Mar 10, 2014?
I assume they are created by bot, but did something special happen during that 3 days?

Don't know for sure, but it could be related to some signature campaign, or someone creating accounts to sell later. Then again, bitcoin's price was going up towards $700 at that time if I'm not mistaken, so that could have helped.

[BadBear]

Someone was botting to manipulate some dumb altcoin poll. Around 12k accounts were deleted, which why there's a large discrepancy in userid numbers vs registered users.

[ScreamnShout]

Someone was botting to manipulate some dumb altcoin poll. Around 12k accounts were deleted, which why there's a large discrepancy in userid numbers vs registered users.

12 thousand? wow. For some reason it does not surprise me that someone was trying to manipulate altcoins

Why were the accounts not simply banned/nuked?

[AnonBitCoiner]

Someone was botting to manipulate some dumb altcoin poll. Around 12k accounts were deleted, which why there's a large discrepancy in userid numbers vs registered users.

Holy crap. Someone must've REALLY wanted to affect those poll results. Imagine if he had manually created them all, haha. Yay for more registered users!