Three millionth account registered

[TheBeardedBaby]

There's one more "premature" three millionth user > https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2999998
Whoever created those accounts he used most likely a script.
All 3 accounts were created without the user logged in, so Last active stays at : Never. THat's why I think only on person controls those accounts. Let's see if he shows up here. 

[zasad@]

One millionth user
Squad_A
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1000000

Two millionth user
Allahabadialt
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2000000

It is sad that users do not stay on the forum.

Online now 500-600 people
https://bitcointalk.org/SSI.php?ssi_function=whosOnline

[TheBeardedBaby]

One millionth user
Squad_A
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1000000

Two millionth user
Allahabadialt
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2000000

It is sad that users do not stay on the forum.

Online now 500-600 people
https://bitcointalk.org/SSI.php?ssi_function=whosOnline

Those accounts are registered as alts accounts with only meaning to be as trophies not a real genuine users. Maybe they could be sold as collectibles one day,  like they are doing with the accounts with ID  below 10000 now. I remember it was a big competition who was going to registered the 2M account a few years back.

Wait for the ALTSEASON to kick in then you'll see a lot more ppl online.

[Bitcoin_Arena]

Looking at the forum stats, I have a question.

Why is it that at the time of posting, the total number of forum members is 2984753 but at the same time the UID of the latest forum member seems greater (3000758) Daymaaar
I thought the total number of members should be the same as what is shown on the UID of the latest member.

[zasad@]

One millionth user
Squad_A
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1000000

Two millionth user
Allahabadialt
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2000000

It is sad that users do not stay on the forum.

Online now 500-600 people
https://bitcointalk.org/SSI.php?ssi_function=whosOnline

Those accounts are registered as alts accounts with only meaning to be as trophies not a real genuine users. Maybe they could be sold as collectibles one day,  like they are doing with the accounts with ID  below 10000 now. I remember it was a big competition who was going to registered the 2M account a few years back.

Wait for the ALTSEASON to kick in then you'll see a lot more ppl online.

In 2017, the cryptocurrency market was called the Wild West because there was no regulation.
Everyone could issue their tokens and sell wherever they wanted.
Market capitalization grew due to rising prices
shitcoins, which are no longer there or they cost very little.
I think that now this is impossible to repeat, people have become smarter and government agencies have learned to find fraudsters and prosecute.

[tranthidung]

Looking at the forum stats, I have a question.

Why is it that at the time of posting, the total number of forum members is 2984753 but at the same time the UID of the latest forum member seems greater (3000758) Daymaaar
I thought the total number of members should be the same as what is shown on the UID of the latest member.

I don't know but some possible reasons

• Past deleted accounts (in very early time of the forum). Maybe it is the total count for "she does not exist" from https://loyce.club/usernames/usernames.txt. I got troubles to import data recent weeks (again) so I can not check it now.
• Nuked accounts. That stat is subtracted to total nuked accounts. Honestly, it is the reason I thought first but when I checked (see below), it is not.

The post is on 5 July 2020, months ago but total nuked accounts is 65770, that is far higher than 15936 (the gap between 2984822 and 3000758)

• Total Autobanned users: 141917
• Total Nuked users: 65770

[icopress]

The post is on 5 July 2020, months ago but total nuked accounts is 65770, that is far higher than 15936 (the gap between 2984822 and 3000758)

Whatever data is displayed on the statistics page, I am absolutely sure that this gap between the numbers is connected exclusively with deleted accounts, (since the deleted accounts are currently 16,117). And the discrepancy between the numbers presented here and the numbers displayed on bpip.org is another question. Perhaps this is due to the update intervals, given that at the moment, for example, I see that btcnfan's profile has been online for a total of 23184d ...

[TheBeardedBaby]

In 2017, the cryptocurrency market was called the Wild West because there was no regulation.
Everyone could issue their tokens and sell wherever they wanted.
Market capitalization grew due to rising prices
shitcoins, which are no longer there or they cost very little.
I think that now this is impossible to repeat, people have become smarter and government agencies have learned to find fraudsters and prosecute.

Things have changed but not that much, there's always people hungry for $ and back in 2017 there were less restrictions than now it was a lot easier to automate everything and make money from almost nothing.
There are some significant changes in the forum that reduced the amount of "bounty hunters" and put the brake on the spam but they are not gone completely. People still developing and selling accounts, and the sig spammers and bounties hunters will be more and more.

When this happens you'll see the difference .

The post is on 5 July 2020, months ago but total nuked accounts is 65770, that is far higher than 15936 (the gap between 2984822 and 3000758)

Whatever data is displayed on the statistics page, I am absolutely sure that this gap between the numbers is connected exclusively with deleted accounts, (since the deleted accounts are currently 16,117). And the discrepancy between the numbers presented here and the numbers displayed on bpip.org is another question. Perhaps this is due to the update intervals, given that at the moment, for example, I see that btcnfan's profile has been online for a total of 23184d ...

The stats page is not reliable source of info. Many of the stats are wrong, but it's not worth it go waste time on adjust them when you have many other 3rd party projects tracking even more stats.

[icopress]

Can anyone explain such a high activity? We passed the 3 million registration mark literally 4 days ago... And over the past three days, 65,000 accounts have been registered, an average of 20,000 per day, which is much higher than the average statistical values presented by tranthidung, (although activity related to publications remains at the same level).

Edited: I think this is a record ... 37,065 accounts were registered on January 20.

In median of 16 days in January of 2021 (p50 value in the raw result table): there is 1911 new members daily. The max value is 11413.
So if this parameter (new daily members) won't break it record in 2021 at 11413, the forum will need more than 24 hours (~ 1.47 days) to hit the 3th million users.

[Halab]

Can anyone explain such a high activity?

Hoho, that probably means that MindlessElectron (Mitchell's bot) is going to have a lot of work soon. It smells like preparation for a spam/SEO attack.
I don't understand the point of attacking Bitcointalk, it must be one of the places where there are the most geeks per pixel².

[notblox1]

This is crazy and at this pace we are going to hit 4 million soon, most of this new accounts will be bots and maybe we need to add more protection at registration with some extra steps.
Maybe we can't stop them but we can slow them down.

[Welsh]

This is crazy and at this pace we are going to hit 4 million soon, most of this new accounts will be bots and maybe we need to add more protection at registration with some extra steps.
Maybe we can't stop them but we can slow them down.

In these instances its not possible to stop bots from registering without it having a negative effect on legitimate new users, so to be able to slow down attacks we would need to come up with a solution which addresses the issue at hand, while also not effecting normal usage. A quick brain storm probably brings up a sort of "quiz" which has randomly generated questions, and in a randomized order. This could serve as a way of a "tutorial" to using Bitcointalk, very much like the newbie welcome messages that's been mentioned in the past. However, this would likely still be too intrusive, versus its effectiveness.

We can't expect people to revise to enter the forum, at the same time we can't expect new users to be familiar with the forum software or Bitcoin. The latter especially, since that's probably the reason they're registering in the first place.

[Stedsm]

Can anyone explain such a high activity?

Maybe not spam attack as Halab mentioned here but I think all these are either bots or are just registering for the sake of signature campaigns or bounties because BTC's spike caught eyes of even those who were talking shit about it ^yesterday^ and now licking it as a lollipop ^today^, so maybe those who were not aware about it, got told by someone that "you can earn fortunes at Bitcointalk" and they came here. 

Btw @LoyceV, is that you experimenting something with the forum?  /jk

[LoyceV]

Btw @LoyceV, is that you experimenting something with the forum?  /jk

Nope. But thanks for summoning me, I now saw my list of Bitcointalk usernames is 3 days behind.

[tranthidung]

Can anyone explain such a high activity?

Edited: I think this is a record ... 37,065 accounts were registered on January 20.

In median of 16 days in January of 2021 (p50 value in the raw result table): there is 1911 new members daily. The max value is 11413.

A new record for daily new users after many months, about 3 times of the past record at 11413.

Reasons: I am thinking of some possible reasons:

• Bounties: new bounties from shit altcoins. It is the most likely reason as bounties are very easy in rules and accept newbie accounts. I did neigher visit nor follow the bounties board for so long so I don't know what has been happening in the child board recent weeks.
• Possible checks
  
  • Checks and compares total posts in bounties past 1 to 4 weeks and previous few months
• Real new users joined the forum: I don't believe it is the case, especially with such a spike. Honestly, I did not create the account on the forum since the first day I knew it. I only read as a guest.
• SEO-attacks, again: I don't think it is a reason as recent days, I did not saw shit posts with dozens of hyperlinks like back in December 2020.

[Halab]

SEO-attacks, again: I don't think it is a reason as recent days, I did not saw shit posts with dozens of hyperlinks like back in December 2020.

The "attack" is in preparation.

Look at random profiles :
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3060000
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3060000
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3060050
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3060070
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3060170
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3060450
...
All registered in a few seconds/minutes.
Last Active:   Never

And I don't think you can see it, but they're all proxybanned.

[JeromeTash]

And I don't think you can see it, but they're all proxybanned.

You are right, I do have a profile it tried to register through Tor browser but on trying to log in, it was proxy banned and there was a message displayed on it directing me to pay some fees in order to use it. it's last active displays as Never

[lovesmayfamilis]

At this rate, the number of accounts will grow dramatically every week. Probably the forum likes it since there is such an opportunity to register thousands of accounts for one person. The goals here are different, with the growth of bitcoin, the number of spammers and cheaters will grow. Today I see advertising of various ICO on the bounty boards again. Thus, there will be at least 10 accounts per person. Hence, we can assume the real number of living people who visit the forum every day. And this figure, unfortunately, is very far from 3 million.
Probably it would be possible to restrict registrations, at least using IP.

[FIFA worldcup]

At this rate, the number of accounts will grow dramatically every week. Probably the forum likes it since there is such an opportunity to register thousands of accounts for one person. The goals here are different, with the growth of bitcoin, the number of spammers and cheaters will grow. Today I see advertising of various ICO on the bounty boards again. Thus, there will be at least 10 accounts per person. Hence, we can assume the real number of living people who visit the forum every day. And this figure, unfortunately, is very far from 3 million.
Probably it would be possible to restrict registrations, at least using IP.

The total number of accounts registered could have been 4-5 million by now if there were no merit system implemented. Since the introduction of merit system, the account farming is no more profitable and also there is no incentive for making multiple accounts for a single person. It better to make a single account and rank it up, rather than having 10 newbies accounts.

[Daniel91]

At this rate, the number of accounts will grow dramatically every week. Probably the forum likes it since there is such an opportunity to register thousands of accounts for one person. The goals here are different, with the growth of bitcoin, the number of spammers and cheaters will grow. Today I see advertising of various ICO on the bounty boards again. Thus, there will be at least 10 accounts per person. Hence, we can assume the real number of living people who visit the forum every day. And this figure, unfortunately, is very far from 3 million.
Probably it would be possible to restrict registrations, at least using IP.

Admins already restricted registrations with ''evil fees'' for suspicious IP.
I'm not sure the forum really benefits so much from a lot of registered accounts but no one can be prohibited from registering here.
Still, the newbie account doesn't really have much value here and that's a good thing.