How many forum members do you know by real name?

[Ultegra134]

None, I signed up on the forum in 2014 but had two large inactive periods. Maybe I would have known a few if I was participating in the local board, but the Greek section is quite dead, and I don't see anything interesting there. I've communicated with quite a few members, and in my opinion, some of them seem like great people and have dedicated their time to answering my questions.

I'd love to meet some of them for a beer sometime in the future, but it's unlikely since most of us here prefer the safety of our privacy. From my point of view, this forum has been a great experience so far, and the majority of the members here are always willing to assist and answer any questions.

[348Judah]

I know upto 5 user's real name and were still active on the forum, this often happens because you got someone introduced to the forum who could have been someone you know before very well, they can be more than 2 and the other is when you you receives personal pm from a user and you get to know each other to the extent of hooking up outside the forum, while the last is when you had a transaction with someone that involes the use of fiat and you both exchange contacts and perform fiat transactions to each other, while some dont even know anyone and yet to introduce the forum to someone before.

[sujonali1819]

I knew some people at the beginning of coming here. But I did not meet them face to face. After a long duration, they are now inactive and I have also forgotten their (most of them) bitcointalk name / real name:)

Yeah to be honest I still remember the name who introduce bitcointalk to me. I did not also meet with him in real life. But I feel proud of him.

[YOSHIE]

I know three users by real names. Unfortunately, they are inactive now and have disappeared from the forum. How about you?

Some of the members I know on Bitcointalk, none of them use real names, pseudonyms are more popular, they say, real names are jokes to be mentioned on the internet.

Maybe for me it's better that they don't use their real name here, for example: @theymos, maybe we should say a mysterious name that must be mentioned every day here, as well as those of us here, the conclusion of 0 real names that I know & know on Bitcointalk, generally I know the name of the song.

[Jet Cash]

I answered 2 and now I keep remembering people's names

I hope I wasn't one of the ones you forgot.

[KingsDen]

It is somewhat not easy to know someone by their real names, except your siblings or your childhood friends whom you introduced to the forum or who brought you to the forum.
It will be more correct if you asked "How many forum members do you know in person"?.

I may know you in person and whatever name you introduced to me as your name, (whether true or not) will remain your name as long as I'll know you.
I am tempted to say I know over 20 people in the forum  because the frequent names I know here in the forum now seems like family members and people I know for long.

What I do is that I now call my real life friends by the name of some characters here in the forum.  It's very funny thoug

[bullrun2024bro]

Okay, here's a warning: From now on, every time you see o_e_l_e_o's post, you'll hear Olé  Olé  Olé in your head. Just like me

Seriously... @LoyceV why did you do that to us? How do I get that out of my mind again? 


Concerning the poll: I don't know anyone personally and I don't know any names. And I honestly never felt the need to know this information.

Bitcoin is about anonymity, privacy and decentralization. And so it should be with the Bitcointalk community.

[Shamm]

there are about 3-5 people who have contacted me and chatted with me and continued on telegram. And I think 3 of them have become friends. because we have so much to talk about.
we support and advise each other.
sometimes helping each other in providing useful information.

But to be honest I'm a little curious. because I never knew their real names. But I still respect and respect their privacy. because I never told anyone my real name.
And it feels more comfortable.

And it's strange that my true nature shows up easily when I talk to people who don't know me directly. well I feel more free to speak and be open with my feelings.

so my choice is 0. because i don't know their real name. even though we've talked a lot.

Same as mine brother there are around 5 user here in bitcointalk forum who chatted me but really don't know their real name. only 2 user here in forum I know their real name and friends in social media like Facebook,  a real friends that will advice and share their knowledge when I was newbie. Anyways it's up to us if we reveal our true names to our friends here in forum.


For fun: just leave a pm if you wanna make friends with me.

[aysg76]

Personally for me it's also zero and know each other from their forum names only and have never also tried or thought about knowing the real name of anyone and it's cool for me.We have privacy concern and should take this into consideration but surprisingly there are many who know each other in real life as well while some like me have no outside ties and are known by our forum identities only.

We came here to discuss about bitcoin and related stuff while gaining knowledge and exchanging it with each other and the forum names are sufficient for me as main concern is above it.

[OgNasty]

I'm sure I have orders for probably a few hundred members of this forum containing their real name and personal information.  A few others I have known a long time and know their real names from friendship.  Then there's a couple people I've tried to get involved in BTC over the years who are not active here.  Out of the hundreds of people who I have been told their names, I probably only remember around 10 who have gotten more personal with me over the years.  In the early days, I tried to make it a point to forget people's identities and not save any information that would enable their identities to ever be outed by me, so I'll admit that my lack of personal attention, while admirable in intent, likely made me seem a little unfriendly to some repeat customers.

[philipma1957]

The voting percentage of 'zero' doesn't surprise me, but so far one member voted on over 10.
No one here is revealing their privacy and doesn't even use a real name. We all good with our privacy protected fake names.

I voted over 10 and it's surprising I'm still the only one. I guess people that know people don't want to participate in the survey.

I know a lot of forum members in real life so I know their real names. There are people who I met here (both local and global) and there are a lot of people I personally invited here. Also there are people who I never meet but I know their real names. Although many of these users have stopped posting, some are still here.

Forum used to be so small, everyone knew each other in local board. Since there was no other platform to talk about Bitcoin, everyone who is a pioneer in the industry was here in the first place. While there were those who wanted to remain completely anonymous, the majority were eager to meet like-minded people. In the past, there wasn't big anonymity concern. There was even some debates about using our real names instead of nicknames. If you look at very old threads you can find discussions about it.

Like bitcoin, bitcointalk is anonymous too.

Bitcointalk is not anonymous. Bitcointalk respect your privacy. If you don't want to reveal your personal info you can stay anonymous (with exceptions*).
*You may want to read privacy page: https://bitcointalk.org/privacy.php

I know a few under 20 but more than 0.

I have personally met with more than 0 and under 20 people here from bitcointalk.

I did a lot of sales and escrows 2014 to 2018 thus meet with a lot of people.

[Pmalek]

I voted over 10 and it's surprising I'm still the only one. I guess people that know people don't want to participate in the survey.

I know a lot of forum members in real life so I know their real names. There are people who I met here (both local and global) and there are a lot of people I personally invited here. Also there are people who I never meet but I know their real names. Although many of these users have stopped posting, some are still here.

You are certainly in the minority right now and I doubt much will change with the voting in the future. How did you meet al those people (not counting the ones you knew before you registered here)? Did you guys organize meetups where you would hang out, do some business, and discuss crypto, or where did you come across that many individuals?

Over 10 is really a very low number 😉
I know a handful number of users in the forum by their real name (if that's their real name that they said), very few trusted me with their living address.

When you said that the number was low, I thought you would say you know 50 Bitcointak users. Turns out that you know less then 10. A handful to me means 3 or 4, max 5.

There are more than a few people on here I would love to grab a drink with, but unfortunately that will never happen for privacy reasons.

Privacy or not, it seems sad to waste an opportunity to get to know someone especially if the feelings are mutual. I respect everyone's decision, but if the other person would want to meet you too then take a leap of faith. It's a completely different story if there is no interest whatsoever from the other party.

[hugeblack]

It is rare for current members to know a lot of people because we share topics that are not shared by the identification denominator. Most of us have posts close to zero in sections such as meetings, and there are no famous developers active in the forum. In short, the vast majority are either participants from the wall or signature campaigns, both of which are activity based on ( Anonymity.)

Personally I know 3 members and only one knows me

[CryptoHeadlineNews]

A wise man once said, "What people know, they kill, what they don't know, they talk about, so it's rather you talk about me, than kill me". So for me, I'm perfectly ok with members' forum usernames and don't intend to dig any further, because just like the founder "Satoshi" remains anonymous till date, so it's likewise advisable that we his followers stay anonymous too, while working tirelessly for the growth of the forum.

[drwhobox]

I voted over 10 and it's surprising I'm still the only one. I guess people that know people don't want to participate in the survey.

I know a lot of forum members in real life so I know their real names. There are people who I met here (both local and global) and there are a lot of people I personally invited here. Also there are people who I never meet but I know their real names. Although many of these users have stopped posting, some are still here.

Forum used to be so small, everyone knew each other in local board. Since there was no other platform to talk about Bitcoin, everyone who is a pioneer in the industry was here in the first place. While there were those who wanted to remain completely anonymous, the majority were eager to meet like-minded people. In the past, there wasn't big anonymity concern. There was even some debates about using our real names instead of nicknames. If you look at very old threads you can find discussions about it.

Kudos to you man! You have a great network here I would say. Not everyone here knows that amount of members by their real name or identity. So that is the reason you found yourself the only one with over 10.
Update: In total there are 6 votes for 10 and over, including you.

Forum used to be so small, everyone knew each other in local board.

Yeah, the local board is the only place where people can learn about others. People like you who spend time on the local board have more connections.

[Saisher]

I only know of one the one who referred me here he is still active and still following his advice on how to properly participate in any discussion here, I have some Facebook friends who I referred here many of them are using fake names although their social media accounts are several years so I have no idea what's their real names are.

I think it's better this way, the little information about your online activity in Cryptocurrency the better for your protection and safety.

[Patrol69]

I am a new member in the forum so I don't know the real name. I still don't know the real name of any user. Because the forum has never had such a good relationship with anyone. But hopefully since I am a regular active member of the forum I will probably meet many members.

[Cantsay]

But hopefully since I am a regular active member of the forum I will probably meet many members.

That's very unlikely going to happen. Most users of bitcointalk value their privacy and it won't be an easy job making them give up on it, and you can be active on the forum for more than two years and still won't get to know their real identity.

The only possible way I can thing of right now is if you'll be active in trading some physical stuff on the forum that way you might be able to know them (if they decide to use their real identity, most times they don't.), But if you wont, then, you'll just keep making post till "thy kingdom come" and still won't know anyone here.

[Edwardard]

I am a new member in the forum so I don't know the real name. I still don't know the real name of any user. Because the forum has never had such a good relationship with anyone. But hopefully since I am a regular active member of the forum I will probably meet many members.

If you go by the Investigations sub-section of this forum, Im sure you will get to know some of the real names of the users here, how does it sound ?
Btw, @OP, what are we going to do by knowing the names ? I wish I could change my name with my mood everyday, lol.

[Hispo]

Actually, I don't know anyone here by name and I only know a couple of persons names because they have been openly accused of defrauding and other bad stuff, I assume those do not count.

I am assume that since I joined here back in 2020, I am still too new to know people that much.