I just noticed the little birthday icon on my profile indicating that today is the day I signed up for Bitcointalk! Pretty amazing really that it's been a dozen years now. I guess that sort of makes me one of the old guys around here. It's been a pretty crazy ride, but I'll admit it hasn't been all that surprising. 12 years ago I signed up for this crazy forum to learn more about this new decentralized currency with a limit on the number of coins that can be produced. I wanted to take part immediately and went from trading things for BTC, to mining, to helping others trade, then helping others mine who aren't able (through my community organization), and eventually creating cool products. It's been an amazing ride with a lot of interesting speedbumps along the way
We have not really engaged in the forum as we mostly post in different boards and/or threads but that should not stop me (or anybody else) in taking the opportunity to at the very least to congratulate you on the 12th anniversary of you being a member in the forum. That 12 year anniversary is an incredible mark to reach and it has to be said it is a very impressive one.
but still we roll on.
Yes you do roll on and we do too and the years keep rolling by for us all therefore raising a glass to yourself and all the rest that are have stayed around making this forum what it is today.
Thanks everyone for all the kind words. I see a few people mentioning my negative feedback. All I can really say about that is it is a bit disgraceful that so many default trust members include users like Vod in their trust networks who publicly tried to extort me. As with everything nowadays, corruption at the highest levels.
I never really fully understood what was going on during that period as I was not posting in those boards but I did discuss this with a member last year (I think) where he provided some links to various posts from years ago to try to get an understanding of what happened back then but it was still not fully clear even after I had a brief look. Anyway, that is another topic for another day I guess and for now all that can be said is congratulations to you on celebrating 12 years here.
What you achieved here with what I see as
94+ positive feedback is remarkable therefore you should enjoy the moment.