Is there new people coming to Bitcoin?

[leex1528]

So just curious.  I know its almost impossible to tell how many people are actually using Bitcoin in the entire world. Maybe this might be a forum moderator question as well I suppose.  Are new people actively joining this Forum?  Are new people actually coming on to Bitcoin.  I have talked with several of my friends about it and had a couple of them even bite for a bit, but they quickly forget about it and they move on.  I guess I am just curious if Bitcoin trend is growing still or if it is more stable, or at a standstill.

Thoughts?

[European Central Bank]

you can check a lot of forum stats here - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats

looks pretty steady for now.

http://www.bitcoinpulse.com/ - this used to be a lot more informative, but it still has some useful info.

i don't think anything radical is happening right now overall, just the usual slow growth upwards.

[n691309]

We can't say that new people are coming to bitcoin but this number maybe is not increasing rapidly but growing normally because there is nothing that could make people rushing and learn/invest in bitcoin.

[Meuh6879]

Are new people actively joining this Forum?

[n691309]

We can't say that new people are coming to bitcoin but this number maybe is not increasing rapidly but growing normally because there is nothing that could make people rushing and learn/invest in bitcoin.

It can be rapidly increasing or it cannot be. But with what's happening today, bitcoin is rapidly being known by many people and companies who are ready to adopt it. But we don't have statistics for it and we are just basing to the news that are coming out.

Actually we don't know how many people learn/heard bitcoin for the first time but people using it mostly use bitcoin directly or third party apps, and I don't believe that it is rapidly change as there is not "big" news that had affected this.

[MingLee]

So just curious.  I know its almost impossible to tell how many people are actually using Bitcoin in the entire world. Maybe this might be a forum moderator question as well I suppose.  Are new people actively joining this Forum?  Are new people actually coming on to Bitcoin.  I have talked with several of my friends about it and had a couple of them even bite for a bit, but they quickly forget about it and they move on.  I guess I am just curious if Bitcoin trend is growing still or if it is more stable, or at a standstill.

Thoughts?

I would assume the community is growing, although maybe not at a constant and large rate. It could be sporadic; with a ton of new users joining when a big event happens or platonic growth overall. There was some chart I saw a while ago that showed the growth of the forum as per new accounts, it was decent but a lot were probably multi-accounts from existing users.

Community is likely growing, is the forum growing? Probably, but I don't spend enough time looking to know.

[yayayo]

Forum registration statistic are a very bad estimate for new users joining the community. There are many spammers that constantly register new alt accounts. The new posts or page views vs. new members ratio shows extreme variations which almost surely indicates mass registration of alt accounts during certain periods.

Besides, this forum is not the only possible place that draws in new Bitcoiners. New people might chose to seek information from other websites and never visit this forum. After all, the Bitcoin ecosystem has grown significantly in the last years.

I'm sure that there are new people coming to Bitcoin. At least I see increased interest regarding the currency in my personal environment...

ya.ya.yo!

[Clement Kaliyar]

you can check a lot of forum stats here - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats

looks pretty steady for now.

http://www.bitcoinpulse.com/ - this used to be a lot more informative, but it still has some useful info.

i don't think anything radical is happening right now overall, just the usual slow growth upwards.

i am not sure whether there is a relation between the growth of bitcointalk as a forum and bitcoin. if you want to fully understand the growth of bitcoin you have to consider making a click counter when someone downloads a wallet even then there are online wallets and i am sure that people will be using exchanges to store their coins to it is not easy to find the actual growth.

[European Central Bank]

i am not sure whether there is a relation between the growth of bitcointalk as a forum and bitcoin. if you want to fully understand the growth of bitcoin you have to consider making a click counter when someone downloads a wallet even then there are online wallets and i am sure that people will be using exchanges to store their coins to it is not easy to find the actual growth.

it's loose but doesn't hurt as a stat. there are probably 2-3x more lurkers than people actually signing up too.

there's degrees really. how many download a wallet that ends up with some bitcoin in it? maybe 1 in 10, maybe more, maybe alot less. maybe it takes someone a couple of years from hearing the word bitcoin to actually ending up with some.

[leex1528]

All good responses.  Most of that was my thinking as well.  I was sort of trying to see if like the forum Admin's have a better idea of how many people are joining this site, mostly because I am assuming a lot of people have more than 1 account, or possible many accounts on here. 

My guess is Bitcoin is standing nearly still, with a few people here and there joining the cause, but I was just hoping for a definite answer

Thanks

[torontobitcoinmanager]

I am new!!
I also explained the whole idea to my friends and within 2 months I helped purchasing over 130 bitcoins. Also buying s9s

[European Central Bank]

there's a lot of people, both positive and negative for bitcoin, who'd pay alot of money for definitive information about bitcoin user numbers. no one will ever know for sure.

as for this site, if it's 900,000 or so users, then when we throw in account farmers, alts accounts and troll spammers, maybe there are 1-200,000 'real' users and that's from minute one so alot will have stopped posting.

[romero121]

New people getting into bitcoin is continuing gradually. Every user can't be seen in our forum, there are a lot of users who are using bitcoin but use other sources for bitcoin related information. When there is good, something negative too exists. There are people who doesn't have proper knowledge on these coins, fear of decentralization and stay out. This needs to change.

[groll]

New people getting into bitcoin is continuing gradually. Every user can't be seen in our forum, there are a lot of users who are using bitcoin but use other sources for bitcoin related information. When there is good, something negative too exists. There are people who doesn't have proper knowledge on these coins, fear of decentralization and stay out. This needs to change.

I think there is no need to have a change in the decentralization of bitcoin. Since this feature makes it unique from other currencies, we don't have to change it  into a centralized form. All we need to do is to inform the rookies about all the good things in bitcoin. Feed them with proper knowledge about bitcoin so the negative ideas will be replaced by positive ones. Continuing to promote bitcoin and its strengths will encourage many people to join the community.

[mrcash02]

there's a lot of people, both positive and negative for bitcoin, who'd pay alot of money for definitive information about bitcoin user numbers. no one will ever know for sure.

as for this site, if it's 900,000 or so users, then when we throw in account farmers, alts accounts and troll spammers, maybe there are 1-200,000 'real' users and that's from minute one so alot will have stopped posting.

I think it's +/- this amount of real users on forum and most of this number (100.000-200.000) inactives. Many Bitcoin users aren't or don't want to be connected with the crypto-currencies community, they just want to buy some BTCs, hold it and make profit. I see many people on social medias talking, but they aren't here on forum.

But I'm sure more people start using Bitcoins each new day, even if they don't use online forums.

[Doms]

A friend of mine recently got interested in bitcoin again, mainly due to gambling. He has been asking me a lot of questions lately and it is good that his interest is there again. Another friend of mine also bought a few bitcoins along with his brother and said that he has been holding it and just waiting for the price to increase.

[outatime1]

I assume that there are gradually more and more people learning about bitcoin and trying it out. I think there will be a growing acceptance but it will take time.

[The_Dark_Knight]

There is no way to measure the number of people coming to bitcoin, there are some stats like the amount of wallets or the amount of users here, personally I prefer to use price as the indicator, bitcoin has ups and down but right now is in the 700+ and it seems its going to keep there that means that enough people are coming to bitcoin to hold such price.

[~Bitcoin~]

Looking at stats of this forum here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats
It seems fewer people are registering but this can't give correct number of new people who are getting interested in bitcoin and for sure it is really high number than this 300+ on average per day.

Only few of those newbie came to know about bitcointalk or think about joining this forum on starting days. Most of them will just register on web wallets and trading platform to just buy bitcoin and store for future. Blockchain.info wallet have recently announced they have 8 million+ wallets and also number have been increased dramatically recently, which could be enough to figure out really high numbers of new people are joining bitcoin trend.

[Juggy777]

So just curious.  I know its almost impossible to tell how many people are actually using Bitcoin in the entire world. Maybe this might be a forum moderator question as well I suppose.  Are new people actively joining this Forum?  Are new people actually coming on to Bitcoin.  I have talked with several of my friends about it and had a couple of them even bite for a bit, but they quickly forget about it and they move on.  I guess I am just curious if Bitcoin trend is growing still or if it is more stable, or at a standstill.

Thoughts?

Intresting question op. The thing is it difficult to say whether new people would be coming in or not, as it's difficult to gauge the number of people coming in or not. Yes new people remember Bitcoin and then they forget it also. But I feel the trend is new people are coming to Bitcoin and sooner or later every one shall mostly be using just Bitcoin only