Introduce yourself :)

[johannbiermann]

Hello from Utah. Just found out about this bitcoin/cryptocurrency stuff and find it all quite interesting. Been lurking around for a few days now.

[embii]

Am i dumb or is there a way to post here without to click on the quote button?    BTC

[newcoinman]

I just click on the "reply" link.

[indyjo]

Hi, my name is Jonas and I believe that there might be better ways to earn money than mining Bitcoins. See this post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=179723.0

[ksenter]

Hi all,

I'm a long time (well a couple of years anyway) bitcoin user/enthusiast.  But I've never posted on bitcointalk before because I didn't feel like I had anything to say.  But I recently added a bitcoin related widget to the google play store so I wanted to let people know it exists in case anyone is interested. 

I'm not sure, but I think this is probably the only place I can post right now, I'll be looking to see if/when I can create new posts elsewhere soon.  And if/when I can post elsewhere I'll give more details.  But in short I added a free widget to help monitor your p2pool mining from your android phone called p2poolwidget. 

Thanks,
-Ken

[BitcoinBoss]

Hi

I'm new to the forum 

BitcoinBoss

[jamie22]

Hi All :-)

Jamie here frm sunny Australia.. well not to sunny Victoria. I've been mining for a couple of months thanks to the help of some friends..  looking to buy and possibly sell my coins now.. Just not sure how to go about it LOL

[bradford]

Hello,

I'm Brad. I've been a long time lurker here, but finally decided to jump into the pool 

BTC is a revolutionary concept and I hope to discuss more with you all.

Brad

[SeansOutpost]

Howdy,

This is Jason from Sean's Outpost(seansoutpost.com) and <BITHOC>(bithoc.com) Bitcoin Homeless Outreach Center.

Lover of Bitcoin and helping other people. Been feeding homeless people with BTC donations for over a month now.

Figured it was time to stop lurking and join the ranks over here.

Just happy to be here :-)

Jason
Sean's Outpost
<BITHOC>

[Kuiken1991]

Hi there,

I'm new on this forum but not to bitcoin and mining.

I need to post something in the "pools" section but i can only post here.. sucks

[dak501]

hi I'm a smalltime btc miner since 2011, been hoarding bitcoins ever since, I hope for the best with bitcoin's future, although I'm worried about scalability.  Here's to a new world of opportunity afforded by btc!! Cheers!


oh btw, blatant attempt for alms...
12daoeCw2CWboGTY8AzrB4FfEKNcKkuMdx

[JakethePilot]

Hey,
I've been watching Bitcoin prices and reading through this forum a lot recently.
I'm excited to see what Bitcoin will develop into in the future.

[intel]

I am Intel and i threat BTC like a stock

[intel]

Hey I am Marco from Germany. Bought some BTC back in 2011  

Do you still hold them? 

[charleshoskinson]

I'm Charles from the United States. I'm a mathematician

[n1c]

South African checking in.

I like to build things at random and haven't quite figured out where to put some more value in to the BTC ecosystem yet, but I mashed this together for a bit of of fun: http://bitcoinaddressbalance.com.

[MmmmJoel]

This is the only forum I know that requires you to spam in order to allow you to post.

[Stovemaster]

Hi there everyone.

Im from the UK, and finding it difficult to get on the ladder, but I will get there!

[chralash]

Hello,

I am a Bitcoin medium/early adopter, and the purveyor of content for chralash.wordpress.com. Figured it would be be worth getting a bitcointalk account since I've lurked here every day for 2 years.

[gonbo]

Oh the ignominy of it - stuck in the newbie bin after 24 years of internet use, 18 years of linux, 30 years of programming from z80 assembler and up,  debating C++ template semantics with Stroustrupp while I was writing a parallelizing C++ source to source translator (before I evolved into a philosophically an anti-C++ person preferring C), enjoying USENET flame wars in the old days and tittering about newbies ineptitude

So anyway hi I am Adam Back, inventor of hashcash (the bitcoin mining function... all those mining cores and ASICs are grinding away producing hashcash).  So yep I contributed to the environmental crime of so far 40MW continuous mining.  We installed a 3.5kW solar installation but it seems like a small offset :|  I also implemented the opensource library credlib which implements Chaum and Brands ecash.  And actually reinvented offline multiple transfer Brands ecash (turns out someone else already figured it out when I asked Stefan).  I consulted for Nokia on ecash crypto back in 2002.  I worked at Zero-Knowledge Systems from 2000-2003.  So anyway I know a few things about ecash, privacy tech, crypto, distributed systems (my comp sci PhD is in distributed systems) and I guess I was one of the moderately early people to read about and try to comprehend the p2p crypto cleverness that is bitcoin.  In fact I believe it was me who got Wei Dai's b-money reference added to Satoshi's bitcoin paper when he emailed me about hashcash back in 2008.  If like Hal Finney I'd actually tried to run the miner back then, I may too be sitting on some genesis/bootstrap era coins.  Alas I own not a single bitcoin which is kind of ironic as the actual bitcoin mining is basically my hashcash invention.  (The only difference being a double hash for a bit of added design paranoia, the switch from SHA1 to SHA256 and defining fractional bits - hashcash difficulty can only double or halve - just count leading bits - bitcoin variant of hashcash defines the challenge as to find hashes < 2^x where x is the log2(difficulty)+32 in bits which is the same when there is no fractional part).

I am a strong believer in distributed trust models.  I was one of the early and vocal technical voices on the cypherpunks list.  Worked on distributed trust privacy tech and anonymity designs at ZKS (ToR is a newer re-implementation of their freedom network which includes my forward anonymity contribution), understand the risks of centralization, vocalized concerns about the risks of CA model, decade before we saw diginotar and others bring those predictions to fruition with Iranians and other CA operators issuing rogue sub-CA certificates for gmail.  I broke a number of crypto deployed systems most of which under NDA.  I have some concerns about centralization trends and how to avoid them on bitcoin.  Oh yeah I proposed something namecoin like also a decade or so back.

But for now I, just gotta get out of the newbie trap.

Ignominy, my word for the day

Adam

It is great.