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October 27, 2012, 02:02:41 AM
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Help me build up this list...

NEW 29/10/12: I will try to keep updated and organized this initial list as for new readers to jump straight to the last post (last checked #76) and reads there on to add his…

I might not have added all of them (plese PM me if you think yours should have been posted).

By the way, you can post your Bitcoiner Status based on your positive answers as 30/102 (being 102 the amount of actual Whens written on the main list)

You really are a TRUE bitcoiner when...
01.   You read all this thread…
02.   You would love to have at least some freeelance job that pays you in BTC...
03.   You feel you really understand something that others do not...
04.   You think Cryptocurrency is the best Digital Revolution after the internet…
05.   You keep creating situations in social meetings where you can introduce a bitcoin explanation...
06.   Your friends are tired of you mentionning bitcoin, or trying to make them jump into it every time possible…
07.   You are still searching for the perfect explanation under 10 seconds. Always trying different approaches…
08.   You believe that you are helping to change the world...
09.   You memorized the Genesis Block address…
10.   You paid for a year's subscription to Bitcoin Magazine…
11.   You ask each and every cashier at any POS if you can pay in BTC…
12.   You mail site owners you like, asking why they don’t accept donations in Bitcoin...
13.   You email random people on the net, asking if they accept bitcoin payments…
14.   You seriously consider giving people Bitcoins for Christmas and Birthdays…
15.   You welcome every new bitcoiner with open arms and warm words of WARNING…
16.   You get banned from other internet forums for constantly talking about bitcoin...
17.   You meet up with strangers in McDonalds and sell them bitcoins for cash…
18.   You finally had enough and tell the community you're done, then post ten minutes later why you're still leaving and replying to other posters who gave you grief why you're still posting…
19.   You get a lot of sleep deprivation because your addiction to any bit of info, stream of data related to BTC…
20.   Every time you log on your PC to do REAL work you spend some valuable and inexistant spare time to check, the forum, and gox order books…
21.   You joined bitcointalk.org and mine 24/7…
22.   Your family believes you are completely nuts...
23.   You think in giving your wife the 100% of your belongings in exchange of YOU keeping the 100% of "your SHITTY Bitcoins", as she calls them…
24.   You lost your job, wife, ando house because you spend all your time on bitcointalk.org and none of the above bothers you because you have a wallet file with 10 BTC in it and this will "soon" make you rich …
25.   You always think on how to help jobless people by teaching them about bitcoin…
26.   You want to give up your job and your life and become a bitcoin missionary in Africa to evangelise bitcoin to the unconverted…
27.   You dreamed about Bitcoin…
28.   You have about 20 bookmarks to bitcoin sites…
29.   Your phone always suggests Bitcoin for the next word…
30.   Your home pc, work pc, and cell phone has a Bitcoin Wallpaper...
31.   You have at least 1 bitcoin related tab open in my mobile phone's browser at all times…
32.   You assume every QR code is a Bitcoin address…
33.   You been logged into this forum over 20 days…
34.   You buy bitcoins and/or mining equipment instead of buying a new car…
35.   Your country's general populace is oppressed…
36.   You read some ECB analysis document as if it were your favorite mystery novel…
37.   You seriously planned which Maybach model u would buy for 20 BTC in a couple of years…
38.   You think that 1 BTC = USD 50,000 is a pessimistic scenario...
39.   You've never read the do-not-trust-anybody thread...
40.   You get a NSFW tattoo…
41.   You got Zhou-Tonged…
42.   You know who Bruce Wagner is...
43.   You know who Pinkie Pie was…
44.   You know the two words that follow: From the Desk of ...
45.   You've seen Genjix in a dress in RL…
46.   You believe that Zhou Tong is real…
47.   You've memorized all of Atlas's alts...
48.   You know who Phineaus Gage is…
49.   You recogn most/all the names of the bitcoiners who've answered the thread…
50.   If you got at least screwed by one scammer on this forum.
51.   You reply to this thread…

You really are a TRUE Bitcoin Speculator when...
52.   You hate and love Mt Gox at the same time…
53.   You do or keep planning to start an exchange...
54.   You take a look at the price at least 12 times a day...
55.   Your first thing in the morning it to check Bitcoin price…
56.   You're nowhere near a computer but suddenly feel a disturbance at MtGox…
57.   Your speculation only takes into account your final BTC Balance...
58.   You take codeine to spend less time away from your charts.
59.   Your heart beats are the same under plunge situations...
60.   All your wage gets redirected to Mt Gox…
61.   You bought bitcoins in an exchange while driving…
62.   No one understands why you keep smiling when your holdings just decreased by a 30%...
63.   You've watched the price fall by $2 or more, then recoup that value within a day...
64.   You've started a sell order on Mt. Gox just when your asking price becomes one penny too high at the latest sell…
65.   You've started a sell order on Mt. Gox only to see the price plummet.
66.   You've kept fiat at Mt. Gox pending for a price crash.
67.   You remember $2 and were EXCITED!
68.   You get the federal government to authenticate your documents in order to increase the limits on your bitcoin trading account…

You really are a TRUE Bitcoin Miner when...
69.   You are forced to sleep in another room because your room is too noisy…
70.   You jump on any half-promising alt-chain in hope to become a rich early adopter…
71.   Nobody can enter your room because there is "to much open mining equipment" laying around...
72.   You simultaneously suffer a heatstroke, frostbite, and asphyxiation while cooling your rigs by dumping liquid nitrogen across your floor…
73.   The window is open and it’s snowing outside…
74.   You helped your friends to get involved in bitcoin and set up their mining machines…
75.   You start a Mining Op…
76.   You relocate a Mining Op to your job's office, storage site, data-hosting company, shed, garage, or somewhere beyond the bedroom / living room / basement…
77.   The cost of running your Mining Op exceeds cost of rent or mortgage or car payment….
78.   When you learn Verilog just so you could develop FPGA miners…
79.   Your browser is constantly opened to a pool of your choice…
80.   You have real-time, text, and/or email alerts for if your miners go down...
81.   You've burned out mining hardware…
82.   Your pets have crashed mining hardware…
83.   You wish a graphics card company could pay you for the three weeks of profit downtime during an RMA…
84.   You've lost some hearing...
85.   The drone of 80+% fanspeeds is now normal to you…
86.   You've run your own 200'+ Internet landlines for a mining op through ceilings…
87.   Friend: "Let's go party tonight!"  You: "Can't, I need to do maintenance on my mining rigs."…
88.   You are envious of your friends when they talk about the great games they have been playing, and you haven't been able to play any of the games you wanted to for over a year…
89.   At LAN parties, you have the best, most powerful PC with the best graphics capabilities, and your friends are pissed at you because all you use it for is minesweeper and solitaire…
90.   You are not afraid to leave thousands of dollars worth of equipment lying in the open without cases...
91.   The sole purpose of your smartphone is to check if your still mining (when your are not home)…
92.   You are getting nervous if you don't have an internet connection on your smartphone for seconds.... to check the hash rate…
93.   You go to a computer shop and ask the workers there how much MH/s that particular GPU has…
94.   You then try to explain to them what you are doing with X HD7970..... (in the shop)…
95.   You start a flame war against NVIDIA Cards because of their low MH/s rate (still in the shop)…
96.   No girl can sleep at your place because it's too noisy and hot there…
97.   if you need to use earplugs (orpax) to get a decent night of sleep (i actually have to do this!)…
98.   The utility company turns you in due to a spike in your electric bill, believing something nefarious must to be going on in your basement when, in fact, there's nothing Nerfario going on…

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99.   You learn all about advanced security practices, SHA-256, and brain wallets to completely eliminate counter-party risk, and then invest in a fund promising 7% returns per week…
100.   After being scammed by some redneck, you engage in the mega-thread choirs…
101.   You're able to put a together a team--one French banker (not named Baker), a photographer, an ex-felon, a foundation guy, a pastel artist living with an urban chicken farmer/photographer, a data center guy who operates a mining pool who happens to live and work near the epicenter of the endeavor, and a Walmart greeter doing assembly, possibly soon operating a piece of equipment purchased off eBay--to produce, in house, the next generation Bitcoin mining equipment, amassing $9M USD in pre-orders, to date, as their noble contribution to the Bitcoin community.
102.   If you just don’t get surprised that the former one turns to be a scam and someone runs away with your btcs (once more).

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October 27, 2012, 04:06:19 AM
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Instead of buying a new car, you buy bitcoins and/or mining equipment.

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You simultaneously suffer a heatstroke, frostbite, and asphyxiation while cooling your rigs by dumping liquid nitrogen across your floor. 
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October 27, 2012, 04:15:15 AM
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the window is open and its snowing outside

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You got Zhou-Tonged http://youtu.be/kdvTkddp1F0
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October 27, 2012, 04:24:37 AM
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You know who Bruce Wagner is.

You memorized the Genesis Block address.

You have butterflies in your belfry and bats in your lab.

The color orange no longer bothers you.

Unremorsefully is part of your vocabulary.

You viewed the After Christmas Christmas Special--TWICE!

You have the image saved on your computer of Rassah's coffee table.

You know who Pinkie Pie was.

You've been banned two times or more for posting off-topic.

You try to bribe theymos to end a ban.

You create an alt who's a bitch, crying like a baby during your ban as a way to interact with your friends.  Grin

You know the two words that follow: From the Desk of ...

You hate and love Mt Gox at the same time.

You've seen Genjix in a dress in RL.

You believe that Zhou Tong is real.
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October 27, 2012, 04:38:40 AM
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Help me build up this list... (for speculators and global bitcoiners)

You really are a TRUE bitcoiner when...
01. Your speculation only takes into account your final BTC Balance...
02. Your heart beats are the same under plunge situations...
03. Your family believes you are completely nuts...
04. Nowone understands why you keep smiling when your holdings decreased by a 30%...
05. You feel you really understande something that others do not...
06. You would love to have at least some freeelance job that pays you in BTC...
07. You believe that you are helping to change the world...
08. You keep creating situations in social meetings where you can introduce a bitcoin explanation...
09. You take a look at the price at least 12 times a day...
10. You bitcoin is the first thing you check in the morning...

All of these apply to me except #3. Nice job!

Edit: I take that back. A few probably do.

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October 27, 2012, 05:34:44 AM
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You read all this thread.

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October 27, 2012, 05:38:35 AM
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I stopped following the bitcoin exchange rate actively after a while, I think it doesn't matter that much. However I still check everything bitcoin related all the time Cheesy

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October 27, 2012, 05:45:05 AM
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You know who Bruce Wagner is.

You memorized the Genesis Block address.

You have butterflies in your belfry and bats in your lab.

The color orange no longer bothers you.

Unremorsefully is part of your vocabulary.

You viewed the After Christmas Christmas Special--TWICE!

You have the image saved on your computer of Rassah's coffee table.

You know who Pinkie Pie was.

You've been banned two times or more for posting off-topic.

You try to bribe theymos to end a ban.

You create an alt who's a bitch, crying like a baby during your ban as a way to interact with your friends.  Grin

You know the two words that follow: From the Desk of ...

You hate and love Mt Gox at the same time.

You've seen Genjix in a dress in RL.

You believe that Zhou Tong is real.

Good GOD Bruno, you have been a member of this forum one month longer than I have and I only know of or was involved in about one quarter of your list. You really do need a full time job dude. LOL

Buying and selling barn wood around the Chicagoland area is a full time job. The time I spend on here is when I'm on the shitter for an extended period of time or in the office between orchestrating deliveries and shipments. And at night prior to going to bed, like now.

Another one(s) for the list:

You've memorized all of Atlas's alts.

You paid for a year's subscription to Bitcoin Magazine.

You get a NSFW tattoo.

You've never read the do-not-trust-anybody thread.

I stopped following the bitcoin exchange rate actively after a while, I think it doesn't matter that much. However I still check everything bitcoin related all the time Cheesy

Same here. I hope it's still somewhere between 9 and 12, but it doesn't matter like it used to.
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October 27, 2012, 05:45:38 AM
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You know who Bruce Wagner is.
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Fuuuuuuu..... I know every single one of those things. I think I've been spending way too much time on here  Undecided
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October 27, 2012, 05:49:08 AM
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You know who Bruce Wagner is.
......

Fuuuuuuu..... I know every single one of those things. I think I've been spending way too much time on here  Undecided

Don't you have to go to Lowes and buy some plywood and batteries? And bubble wrap to protect that precious coffee table of yours?



And another one:

You look out for your fellow Bitcoiner.
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October 27, 2012, 06:01:36 AM
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you helped your friends to get involved in bitcoin and set up their mining machines.

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October 27, 2012, 06:23:22 AM
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You look out for your fellow Bitcoiner. You think "F you, got mine" is a perfectly fine view to hold.

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October 27, 2012, 06:38:06 AM
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your RL friend are tired of you mentionning bitcoin every time possible, or trying to make them bet, in bitcoin

you ask each and every cashier at any POS if you can pay in BTC

you get a lot of sleep depravation because your adicted to any bit of info, stream of data related to BTC

you reply to this thread
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October 27, 2012, 07:14:46 AM
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Help me build up this list... (for speculators and global bitcoiners)

...If u seriously planned which Maybach model u would buy for 20 BTC in a couple of years.
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October 27, 2012, 07:22:16 AM
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You know who Phinnaeus Gage is.



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October 27, 2012, 08:40:43 AM
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you welcome every new bitcoiner with open arms and warm words of warning

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October 27, 2012, 10:42:33 AM
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- You email random people on the net, asking if they accept bitcoin payments.

- You get banned from other internet forums for constantly talking about bitcoin.

- You meet up with strangers in McDonalds and sell them bitcoins for cash.

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October 27, 2012, 11:04:30 AM
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- You get banned from other internet forums for constantly talking about bitcoin.

This has happened to me. Multiple times. Although it's more because I've advertised my own site too much, not simply because I talk about Bitcoin.

Great thread in general, most of the points in the OP apply to me and many of the newer ones as well.

The most effective marketing method for us is to simply ask merchants to accept bitcoins once you buy something from them. Always ask. This will add up eventually.

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