That's not a source that says Bitcointalk is the biggest influence there is on Bitcoin.
Well you can still look at the correlation of bitcoin price and new forum users, i have thread about that:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1249771.0No I don't admit bitcoin is a ponzi scheme, it isn't. What a ridiculous argument, trying to put words in my mouth. I said that getting a marketing team to promote a cryptocurrency not your personal investment would make it look like a scam (ponzi scheme, pyramid scheme, etc). It's very easy to make an uneducated person think Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme, even though it isn't. And I don't think we need a PR scheme for simply promoting it like the people who use Bitcoin already do.
Ok sorry I didnt mean to put words in your mouth, but your argument surely sounded like how I described it.
However there are some inconsistencies here look:
If Joe promotes Bitcoin to Bill, in whatever fashion. Then you got +1 member if Bill joins. So that is 1->1 promotion.
If you scale it to 100->100, 100 random people promote it to 100 other random people, you got the same.
Now if you have 1 marketing team promoting it to 1,000,000 people, how is that not the same as the 1-1 promotion, it's just only scaled to a higher level.
So you accept that 1->1 ,you accept 100->100, but you don't accept 1->1,000,000 , therefore your logic is inconsistent.
