I always find your signature very hard to believe
Sigh. Is it so hard to believe that someone may be just telling the plain boring truth, for a change? Perhaps, when everybody is hiding behind a pseudonym, people grow to expect lies by default; but is harder to tell lies when you are using your own name, and you have a job where lying is not as forgivable as it is in finance or politics.
If you have seen enough of my posts, you should know that I *do* try to do serious data analysis, and to understand bitcoin deeper than Antonopoulos-level. I think I have learned a few things about bitcoin that bitcoiners do not seem to be aware of, or try hard to ignore, or deny because they desperately need them to be false. I think that this sort of thing is quite appropriate for a computer scientist to "waste" his time on. (More so than the Fukushima disaster, although even then I did contribute some bits that others found useful.) For example, this plot
that is strong evidence that the Chinese exchanges were leading the Nov/2013 bubble, and quite probably also the Apr/2013 one. (Which, of course, has many unpleasant implications for the future price and the solidity of bitcoin funds.) Or this plot
that shows that the number of deposits per day into BitPay's receiving wallet was quite flat through most of 2014, and increased by a factor of ~3 since mid-2013; whereas this plot
shows that the bitcoin volume of those deposits has been constant at ~1000 BTC/day since Jan/2013. (Explaining these numbers is not trivial, but they definitely contradict the claims of "booming adoption", and are consistent with may other indications that usage for e-payments is stagnant at best.)
And so on. I don't know whether those pokings will yield something that many people will care to know, but, as some famous scientist said, "research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing"...
Ok, just to summarize:
1) Plot based on meaningless volume from china based exchanges
2) Bitpay is the only company in the world dealing with bitcoin or did the inclusion of other data not yield the same output as desired by you?
Do all the drug dealers use bitpay and is the drug market in a collapse?
If I use your research and apply it to the following use case "Yesterday 1 customer paid with bitcoin, today 2 customers paid with bitcoin", therefore worldwide adoption of bitcoin has doubled in a single day.
I suggest you keep you next posts on-topic or go copy/paste your fancy drawings in a brand spanking new post in the correct subforum.
Just to boost your ego a bit, which you obviously need to compensate for something...
Greetings from your personal troll!
PS: It's not our fault that you are stuck in a dead end job waiting for your retirement or death, whatever comes first, surrounded by colleagues that can't stand to watch at your smug face all day.
I already got all the promotions that I could have in my career as teacher/scientist.
There are too many profs here who know me already, so my chances of being elected by accident would be pretty slim.
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