Slashdot Poll (27k users so far) on Bitcoin

[sgbett]

Interesting to get a view from outside of this 'slightly biased' forum



A notoriously cynical cohort, the numbers back that up. Interesting that in a 'geek' crowd there are still 12% of people who havent even heard of it!, and a huge 32% just don't even care!

[checkers6676]

sucks for them

[eleuthria]

Considering very little new blood goes to Slashdot these days, I'm not surprised.  That audience went to Digg, then to Reddit.  What you're seeing are the internet equivalents of the average grandparents trying to understand the latest technology.  Oh, and asking you to get off their lawn.

[bitcool]

Considering very little new blood goes to Slashdot these days, I'm not surprised.  That audience went to Digg, then to Reddit.  What you're seeing are the internet equivalents of the average grandparents trying to understand the latest technology.  Oh, and asking you to get off their lawn.

you just offended 1318 people 

[eleuthria]

Considering very little new blood goes to Slashdot these days, I'm not surprised.  That audience went to Digg, then to Reddit.  What you're seeing are the internet equivalents of the average grandparents trying to understand the latest technology.  Oh, and asking you to get off their lawn.

you just offended 1318 people 

Hey, some grandparents can be cool and keep up with the modern world

[oakpacific]

Interesting to get a view from outside of this 'slightly biased' forum



A notoriously cynical cohort, the numbers back that up. Interesting that in a 'geek' crowd there are still 12% of people who havent even heard of it!, and a huge 32% just don't even care!

One interpretation: Those nooby kiddies whose 1337 e-peens are not even half as long as mine(I have been developing on *N*X/PDP-11/VMS ever since ****, you know, you know?) get filthy rich with this fucking bitcoin! So it must be a Ponzi scheme/bunch of scammers!

[Crazy]

Wow thanks for posting this. That's actually quite scary... 44% dislike, or don't know about, Bitcoin. Sniping aside, that's significant.

[Melbustus]

I have a marginal soft-spot for slashdot with regard to bitcoin since that's where I first heard about it.

I'm one of the 4% in that poll. :-)

[MikeH]

I think most would be in the mildly categories here, I mean I don't think many would go all in as an investment due to potential attacks but strongly support it in other ways.

[WishIStartedSooner]

I've read slashdot regularly for a very long time.

Seeing most of the crowds' opinions on bitcoin when an article has popped up in the past couple months however has been making me wonder if perhaps that site might not be becoming a bit too shortsighted for my tastes.

[sounds]

slashdot had a good run, but eventually became a wasteland of posts that are unhelpful, ignorant, me too, or trolling.

digg, reddit, even bitcointalk all struggle with the same "eternal september."

slashdot polls are trolling by the authors. ignore slashdot poll results - vote fraud runs rampant.

[Gabi]

6008 people didn't buy when bitcoin was at 2$ 

[slush]

Well, I consider myself as a bitcoin enthusiast, but I also don't trust Bitcoin as a store of value. I won't bet my life that the price won't fall back to dolars or even cents. Consider the blockchain split few weeks ago; it was managed with an elegance, but some next issue like this might be a huge show stopper. So the poll result doesn't suprise me at all.

[Cluster2k]

/. is the first place I heard about bitcoin (when it passed $1/btc in early 2011).  I see /. as a counter balance to bitcointalk.  /. is populated with many skeptics, while bitcointalk has many users trying to pump the price of bitcoin as high as possible.

[molecular]

Considering very little new blood goes to Slashdot these days, I'm not surprised.  That audience went to Digg, then to Reddit.  What you're seeing are the internet equivalents of the average grandparents trying to understand the latest technology.  Oh, and asking you to get off their lawn.

so true.

[pera]

Considering very little new blood goes to Slashdot these days, I'm not surprised.  That audience went to Digg, then to Reddit.  What you're seeing are the internet equivalents of the average grandparents trying to understand the latest technology.  Oh, and asking you to get off their lawn.

That's not fair: I first heard about Bitcoin in 2010 on Slashdot..

[theowalpott]

I also heard about bitcoin on slashdot, and I'm skeptical about bitcoin as a store of value, definitely wouldn't bet my savings on it!

[Melbustus]

Well, I consider myself as a bitcoin enthusiast, but I also don't trust Bitcoin as a store of value....

What *do* you trust as a store of value?

[Locustus]

The actual URL: http://slashdot.org/poll/2549/re-bitcoin-i-most-strongly-agree-with-the-following

[slush]

What *do* you trust as a store of value?

Real estate, gold. There's little chance that you wake up and your house or gold bars will have zero value. Although it's quite possible with bitcoins.