The reason people join bitcointalk forum

[AakZaki]

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Tell me, why is a beginner who is interested in knowledge, merits, and ranks? But we regularly see those who teach from the first day, create "useful" topics, and seek merit. These people very foolishly decipher themselves and pretend to be sincerely seeking knowledge at a time when their motives are far from learning.
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I think most of them think Bitcointalk is a moneymaker with crypto. So far I have predated it, this is due to the doctrine of the members in new people. But so far I think there is a purely true seek knowledge regarding crypto. As far as I know this Forum, the development is very good, since the service system applies this forum looks more organized. So if they feel like being useful actually it doesn't matter, because indeed the forum educates them to be like that. After that there will certainly be bonuses from their efforts, (Signatures, bounty etc),I think it is a motive because the higher the rank and the quality of their posts is good then they will get that bonus.

[Stalker22]

Unfortunately, in recent years, many bounty hunters have joined only for money and not for knowledge. Sometimes, I wonder if all these bounty hunters are real people or just automated bots that fill out bounty reports? We have already uncovered a number of account farms, but I find it difficult to imagine that anyone would do all of this by hand when we know that the financial benefit is almost nonexistent.

[ololajulo]

when the genuine thread discussion on trending topic and project declines due to signature campaign, unfortunately the campaign does not reward as earlier done because members dont participate in crowdfund as before.

[Darker45]

I can't for the life of me understand how a lot of people still join Bitcointalk solely for "bounty hunting" a.k.a. spamming on social media despite the fact that it's pretty much a total waste of time now. I'd understand if it was in 2017 where every obvious crap token pumped, but today? Nah.

That's probably the reason why compared to 2017, there's definitely much fewer bounty hunters today. I am not so sure, but it appears so. The incentive factor itself is enough reason why the 2017 bounty hunters would stop doing their old thing now. However, we can understand why some are still interested. In the first place, bots are used. So there's not much effort required in terms of the menial social media jobs and the reporting requirement here. They can afford to risk and join a lot of campaigns and probably be happy if there's 2 or 3 projects that ended up paying tokens that are not worthless.

[mk4]

You have to look at it from the point of view of someone who has no skills, has no clue really about crypto,(other than moving tokens around) most likely comes from the country with low income and it's here solely for the purpose of making money. After all, bounty hunting is very low effort kind of "work" so why not, if you don't have any skills and you have some free time on your hands. And who knows, maybe they hit the mother lode, as they probably heard stories of some bounty hunters getting rich.

There are other far better things to do that doesn't require bachelor-levels of knowledge though; some only requires a decent amount of computer knowledge — probably like virtual assistants and customer support.

But I guess social media spamming is something that literally has almost zero barrier to entry compared to the things I've mentioned that requires people to apply for jobs. That's another topic, I guess.

[dezoel]

Waaaay back when I first joined, my main reason was to ask questions, participate in discussions, and learn stuff. It has worked out pretty well because it did allow me to get a lot better in the end. It is not an easy task so I have to say it would take a while before you can feel relax about writing here.

There are days when I do not want to participate, and there are weeks where I can't stop participating, so it is not really a one stop deal but at the same time everything about crypto that I learned, I first saw here which is a great deal. This is a great situation to be in for any crypto enthusiast because it allows you be in the center of crypto world.

[Kasabus]

Some more numbers of people join bitcointalk forum for one or two reasons, to gain knowledge or for both the money and the knowledge. The zeal to make money

As said, many will join only for money not for "money and knowledge", not realizing that without knowledge they'll mostly hunt for empty promises, wasting their time and earning nothing.

Even more, even the previous post has missed one more category: those hunting for money to be earned outside of the forum, spamming with links to various weak news sites or blogs, ref links to various platforms (most of them being scam).

Unfortunately the new ones seeking knowledge - with or without the added money - are fewer and fewer.

No one gets to learn and seek knowledge in crypto if there is no rewards waiting for it. Its by somehow a motivation for most of us. So we should be equipped with the basic knowledge and skills in crypto first before we start to invest and trade to make profits. But this is not happening for most of the newbies. They start to invest and trade first and when they start committing losses, that's when they decide to learn and study about crypto. And worst is, others decide to leave and quit crypto without considering to learn about crypto first.

[uchegod-21]

If it is to acquire bitcoin knowledge that makes people to join this forum, the population of this forum wouldn't have increased to the level it is now. Again, there also might be decrease in population at some points.
Take for instance;
If I join this forum to learn how to incrypt wallet, immediately I learnt that, I will exit the forum because I have achieved the purpose for which I am here.
Generally, the altcoins section for people looking for new projects, pump and dump etc is why people are here.
Also the bounty section for promoting projects
And the signature campaign.
These are some of the things that makes people join bitcointalk.

[Shamm]

Some more numbers of people join bitcointalk forum for one or two reasons, to gain knowledge or for both the money and the knowledge. The zeal to make money has made many to learn more about bitcoin even if their main motive of joining the bitcointalk forum is to just make money to earn a living. They need to go on research and learn more about bitcoin in order to make qualitative and informative post to gain more merit in order to rank up and get higher pay in signatures they’re participating it. In other words, the knowledge gained can be shared with new members who come to the forum to ask about a particular thing they’re not so sure of.
Either way, the motive of joining the forum has made many to still achieve the primary aim of why the group is created. To learn about the basics of bitcoin and how the market works plus mining.

 
It seems gonna true about that and yes nowadays compared to the old days here in the bitcointalk forum is very far as it was in the past years people will join here in the forum to gain knowledge about bitcoins but now some people join here in the forum to gain money and start spamming all along.
But not all because some users will grow fast because of their hard work and dedication.
Knowledge and before earning is the best way to this forum.

[SweetL0u]

At first it was for the Gambling section, then I discover an awesome community. You guys are amazing 

[Kelvinid]

I come because of these things...
 1. Curiosity
 2. Learning some ideas
 3. Earning money

However, the most interesting part about crypto is how to earn money from here which obviously the most reason why people are coming. of course, it wasn't just designed for such a thing but aside from making some money here, it also imparts useful ideas which it was very beneficial to all of us.

[Oceat]

I come because of these things...
 1. Curiosity
 2. Learning some ideas
 3. Earning money

However, the most interesting part about crypto is how to earn money from here which obviously the most reason why people are coming. of course, it wasn't just designed for such a thing but aside from making some money here, it also imparts useful ideas which it was very beneficial to all of us.

Most people would be for the number 3 but the problem is they don't know how but I think most people who came here was just lured by someone to post something just for the sake of bounty hunting. And it does create a mess once they spam all over the place with one to two lines of post. It is rare to see someone stumbled upon on this forum just out of curiosity why they created an account and the others just wanted to read or report/complain/ask that they have been scammed by someone.

[nurilham]

To enter the crypto world, of course, we need sufficient knowledge so that we can decide what to do and what to avoid. that's why we join in this forum. in addition to increasing knowledge, this forum also provides some information about bounties where it will be very useful for bounty hunters to get paid or money. so if we can study this forum and use it well then it will be profitable. sharing opinions with each other makes our minds more open, that's why this forum is very helpful because it consists of many members with different experiences and knowledge. in other words we can learn from various perceptions, it's just a matter of how we sort out good information or not good.

[qwertyup23]

Either ways, the motive of joining the forum has made many to still achieve the primary aim of why the group is created. To learn about the basics of bitcoin and how the market works plus mining.

I remember back in 2017, my friend convinced me to join this forum so I could learn more about cryptocurrencies as it is a topic which was touched upon in one of our subjects. I became quickly curious about its development and process- which somehow introduced an innovative idea behind our transactions under the so-called "blockchain."

I do realize that learning and knowing about cryptocurrencies is an edge and is something that I considered vital to the future. It just so happened that campaign signatures were a trend which gave an opportunity to people to be rewarded with BTC or any altcoins available, depending on the campaign.

Unfortunately, lots of newbies nowadays plague the forum spamming and creating threads which purport to be scams. In addition, lots of bounty campaigns have surfaced creating an influx of newbies joining bounty campaigns which somehow degrades the overall integrity of the forum.

Though I do understand that we have all our financial needs (especially to people living in third-world countries, including myself), it's just that people scamming one another is just truly unacceptable.

[Bamjos]

I started becoming enthusiastic about cryptocurrency mid-last year because the project has seen a lot of people through journeys that end in their financial breakthrough, I know a lot of people in this category. Apart from the fact that I love to do research—to learn—the reward attached to studying and investing my time and money in cryptocurrency has played a major role in my commitment to the project, and it's not bad, just like you concluded your post, at the end, the purpose of the forum is been met, problems are been solved and people were determined to learn. The forum is serving it's purpose!

[Taskford]

Some more numbers of people join bitcointalk forum for one or two reasons, to gain knowledge or for both the money and the knowledge. The zeal to make money has made many to learn more about bitcoin even if their main motive of joining the bitcointalk forum is to just make money to earn a living. They need to go on research and learn more about bitcoin in order to make qualitative and informative post to gain more merit in order to rank up and get higher pay in signatures they’re participating it. In other words, the knowledge gain can be shared with new members who come to the forum to ask about a particular thing they’re not so sure of.
Either ways, the motive of joining the forum has made many to still achieve the primary aim of why the group is created.

For sure before we go here we are searching for much reliable information about crypto and other project we search, we just discover how big the opportunity to anyone to earn here since there are so many projects offer some potential good cash to the people they recruit and I think this is one of the reason why this forum grows as many people goes here seek for opportunity that can possibly change their lives.

[Hypnosis00]

I started becoming enthusiastic about cryptocurrency mid-last year because the project has seen a lot of people through journeys that end in their financial breakthrough, I know a lot of people in this category. Apart from the fact that I love to do research—to learn—the reward attached to studying and investing my time and money in cryptocurrency has played a major role in my commitment to the project, and it's not bad, just like you concluded your post, at the end, the purpose of the forum is been met, problems are been solved and people were determined to learn. The forum is serving it's purpose!

Well, the truth is that the forum become a source of income. It is found to be a solution for those who seek a job online.
Learning and earning, well, this is really how the forums serve it's purpose and I absolutely see that it helps a lot of members here.

Learning about trading, investing, joining paid campaigns...it simply talks about earning money. This even it gains more interest as to hear that many known personalities, rich people are already a part of this growing market.

[Franctoshi]

Base on vast majority, I agree with you on the aspect that most people are now joining the forum for the purpose of earnings, which is a kinda being contrary to the major reason why the forum was being created, but that doesn't take away the fact that there are a lot of people too who genuinely joined the forum for the purpose of getting more information and education about Bitcoin . If there is a way to clamp down on those spamming Bounties in order to sanitize the furum that would make perfect.

[The Cryptovator]

To be honest more than 90% of newbies joining to the forum for earning bounty stakes. Rest people joining learning purposes to gain knowledge. No matter most of them involve with earning later once they realize they could earn from here. But intention should learn purpose. Always couldn't earn from here anyway. But if we can learn from here, we would apply our skills in some other places. So may the door would open for us, but the conditions are experienced.

However, I am not blaming anyone, because nothing wrong with doing bounty or signature unless they spam on the forum. I have seen a couple of users leave bounty and start contributing to the forum when they realized the value of the forum. So day by day everyone would learn and behave themselves.

[JoyMarsha]

Day by day, newcomers get to join us on the forum. The majority join based on what their friends told them about the forum on how they can make quick money from bounties by promoting projects. Because of what they are told, their whole attention and reasoning will be on how to make money from bounties, nothing else not minding the type of knowledge to get from the forum.
To make it right, I think we should start by telling our friends that btt is a forum to get the appropriate knowledge of crypto than telling them how to make money out of bounties. I believe by doing that, the whole concept of joining btt for only to make money would change to those that only join for the pay