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[karolina]

What the hell is going on with Doge??

doge thinks if paypal accepts bitcoin they will surely accept doge too! RALLY!!

violent pull back in 5...4... anyone wana bet?  3....

Yeah, I bet 1 BTC you're right!

[JayJuanGee]

What the hell is going on with Doge??

doge thinks if paypal accepts bitcoin they will surely accept doge too! RALLY!!

violent pull back in 5...4... anyone wana bet?  3....

Was that a lie?  I saw some information circulated about paypal accepting litecoin and dogecoin... but that may have been misinformation.

[karolina]

It wouldn't surprise me if Doge ends up with a higher market cap than Litecoin. It's hell of a lot more attractive to newcomers/teens etc. than litecoin ever will be.

[adamstgBit]

What the hell is going on with Doge??

doge thinks if paypal accepts bitcoin they will surely accept doge too! RALLY!!

violent pull back in 5...4... anyone wana bet?  3....

Was that a lie?  I saw some information circulated about paypal accepting litecoin and dogecoin... but that may have been misinformation.

just looked it up now...

The inclusion of GoCoin in the arrangement means that merchants can choose to accept litecoin and dogecoin, two other virtual currencies that the processor handles in addition to bitcoin.

fair enough.

[adamstgBit]

buying doge 

[JayJuanGee]

buying doge 

Cut your loose!!!!! 

Buy, buy buy:    doge and litecoin.... 

WTF.........!!!!     YOLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!   GO  ADAM!!!!!!!!!




Meanwhile, I'm gonna stick with BTC, for the moment.       

[adamstgBit]

buying doge  

Cut your loose!!!!!  

Buy, buy buy:    doge and litecoin....  

WTF.........!!!!     YOLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!   GO  ADAM!!!!!!!!!




Meanwhile, I'm gonna stick with BTC, for the moment.        

there i'm now 100% doge

much potential
very up Up UP
Wow!

this is a joke...

[criptix]

buying doge  

Cut your loose!!!!!  

Buy, buy buy:    doge and litecoin....  

WTF.........!!!!     YOLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!   GO  ADAM!!!!!!!!!




Meanwhile, I'm gonna stick with BTC, for the moment.        

there i'm now 100% doge

much potential
very up Up UP
Wow!

this is a joke...

i told you so yesterday 

[adamstgBit]

[JayJuanGee]

buying doge  

Cut your loose!!!!!  

Buy, buy buy:    doge and litecoin....  

WTF.........!!!!     YOLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!   GO  ADAM!!!!!!!!!




Meanwhile, I'm gonna stick with BTC, for the moment.        

there i'm now 100% doge

much potential
very up Up UP
Wow!

this is a joke...

MUCH      Cut your loose!!!!! 

VERY        Buy, buy, bye, bye!!!!     

SO         WTF.........!!!!     


 

[adamstgBit]

LMAO!

[adamstgBit]

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation

[MrPiggles]

http://www.askmen.com/money/investing/ripple-the-next-big-cryptocurrency.html

...
Real men use Ripple.
...

Jesus christ, he sure spends a lot of time trying to convince us no one cares about bitcoin considering he really believes no one cares about bitcoin.

Surely thats the kind of thing you don't need to point out?

To use an often cited example, no one gives a fuck about beanie babies anymore. Why are the investment experts not harping on about how beanie babies should be ignored?

[JorgeStolfi]

Bitcointalk.org posts by topic, updated

Below is a breakdown of the 239 recently most active threads in this forum, captured a few hours ago.  For comparison, I copied the similar statistics for June/21 and July/25:

2014-06-21    ! 2014-07-25    ! 2014-09-25    !
--------------+---------------+---------------+
Posts !     % ! Posts !     % ! Posts !     % ! Category                       
------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------------------------------
    8 |   6.7 |    14 |  12.6 |    28 |  11.7 | Off-topic                      
    4 |   3.3 |     7 |   6.3 |    15 |   6.3 | Gambling                       
   18 |  15.0 |    12 |  10.8 |    58 |  24.3 | Bitcoin mining                 
   37 |  30.8 |    22 |  19.8 |    23 |   9.6 | Bitcoin non-mining             
   53 |  44.2 |    56 |  50.5 |   115 |  48.1 | Altcoins (including mining)    
------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------------------------------
  120 | 100.0 |   111 | 100.0 |   239 | 100.0 | TOTAL                          

Explanation

To create the last table, I copied the first 6 pages of the list of most recent topics posted to, spanning about 1 hour, and manually classified the threads in the above categories. (This is not quite a sample of the recent posts, since each thread was counted only once even if it had several posts within that interval.  So the most active threads are under-represented.)

Comments

As in the previous samples, about half of the activity seems to be related to altcoins.  Activity about bitcoin (mining and non-mining) was 46%, 31% , and 34% in the three samples; the difference was taken over by gambling and other threads unrelated to cryptocoins.  

Among the posts about bitcoin proper, there seems to be an increasing fraction about mining.

This time, 9 of the 58 posts about bitcoin (15.5%) were in Chinese.  (This proportion may vary along the day; the sample was taken at about 02:00--03:00 UTC, which is 10:00--11:00 am in China.)


EDIT: Here are the samples of thread headers used to make those tables: 2014-06-21 2014-07-25 2014-09-25 .  The headers were edited to remove funny characters and indicate the language (with [CN] or [Chinese], [RU], [DE] etc.).  Titles in some foreign languages were translated through Google.

[ChartBuddy]

Explanation

[mooncake]

Bitcointalk.org posts by topic, updated

Below is a breakdown of the 239 recently most active threads in this forum, captured a few hours ago.  For comparison, I copied the similar statistics for June/21 and July/25:

2014-06-21    ! 2014-07-25    ! 2014-09-25    !
--------------+---------------+---------------+
Posts !     % ! Posts !     % ! Posts !     % ! Category                       
------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------------------------------
    8 |   6.7 |    14 |  12.6 |    28 |  11.7 | Off-topic                      
    4 |   3.3 |     7 |   6.3 |    15 |   6.3 | Gambling                       
   18 |  15.0 |    12 |  10.8 |    58 |  24.3 | Bitcoin mining                 
   37 |  30.8 |    22 |  19.8 |    23 |   9.6 | Bitcoin non-mining             
   53 |  44.2 |    56 |  50.5 |   115 |  48.1 | Altcoins (including mining)    
------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------------------------------
  120 | 100.0 |   111 | 100.0 |   239 | 100.0 | TOTAL                          

Explanation

To create the last table, I copied the first 6 pages of the list of most recent topics posted to, spanning about 1 hour, and manually classified the threads in the above categories. (This is not quite a sample of the recent posts, since each thread was counted only once even if it had several posts within that interval.  So the most active threads are under-represented.)

Comments

As in the previous samples, about half of the activity seems to be related to altcoins.  Activity about bitcoin (mining and non-mining) was 46%, 31% , and 34% in the three samples; the difference was taken over by gambling and other threads unrelated to cryptocoins. 

Among the posts about bitcoin proper, there seems to be an increasing fraction about mining.

This time, 9 of the 58 posts about bitcoin (15.5%) were in Chinese.  (This proportion may vary along the day; the sample was taken at about 02:00--03:00 UTC, which is 10:00--11:00 am in China.)

You will need to mention the limitation in your research. For instance, many of the posts are created from troll accounts. Most of them do not offer meaningful comments. Look no further than this thread.

[JorgeStolfi]

You will need to mention the limitation in your research. For instance, many of the posts are created from troll accounts. Most of them do not offer meaningful comments. Look no further than this thread.

Surely... but the distortion caused by trolls should be somewhat lessened by counting recently active threads rather than recent posts.  (A trollpost may cause some low-activity thread to show up as active in the sampling window.  However,  a thread that is heavily "infested" by trolls will still be counted only once.)

It can be argued also that even trollposts are evidence of public interest on some broad topic.

Anyway, if the proportion of trollposts to good posts in each category is about the same, they will not have much effect on the percentages.

[MrPiggles]

You will need to mention the limitation in your research. For instance, many of the posts are created from troll accounts. Most of them do not offer meaningful comments. Look no further than this thread.

Surely... but the distortion caused by trolls should be somewhat lessened by counting recently active threads rather than recent posts.  (A trollpost may cause some low-activity thread to show up as active in the sampling window.  However,  a thread that is heavily "infested" by trolls will still be counted only once.)

It can be argued also that even trollposts are evidence of public interest on some broad topic.

Anyway, if the proportion of trollposts to good posts in each category is about the same, they will not have much effect on the percentages.

Whats the point you're trying to get across with those figures?

[JorgeStolfi]

Whats the point you're trying to get across with those figures?

They are the figures I got as described.  I have no point to get across.  You can draw your own conclusions, or not.