Topic: Bitcointalk is Dying? (Read 894 times)
Nope I don't think so, in fact, this is still the go-to place to find relevant news and for feedbacks about news dropping of attendance is not an indication and there is no close competition so far, it will still the best Bitcoin forum.
Well probably this because of unfriendly user intetface. One will going to pay if having a bad IP address when regustering besides the ranking and merit system divides users in this forum. High ranks has a huge and good opportunities while low ranks are dying over a period of time due to merit requirement to rank up. Others will say that it is easier to rank up but in reality only few will be chosen as it depends on the merit they receive from.the merit source. Some.merit source are doing their best but because of the huge registered users it will be difficult for.them to spot good posts and merit it unless one user is eager to acquired it by posting constructive posts.
I think the thread completed it's purpose and it's time to be locked and let go.
I agree, and I gave you one of my rare illuminated merits for suggesting it.
Of course Bitcoin Talk won't die. Just wait until all the bankers start their crypto projects, that will set it on fire.
I think the thread completed it's purpose and it's time to be locked and let go.
Hope the OP will do this, otherwise I have to report it to avoid additional spam.
For all those tl;dr guys > The forum is alive and it will continue it's purpose in the future, too.That's it.
Hope the OP will do this, otherwise I have to report it to avoid additional spam.
For all those tl;dr guys > The forum is alive and it will continue it's purpose in the future, too.That's it.
Bitcointalk is not to die till the bitcoin is alive. And I do not see any death of bitcoin in near future.
Number of users / posters have definitely decreased and that is because bounty hunters are now away due to bear phase. in bear phase bounty hunters were not getting paid because of no value for the coins they were earning. so they stopped working / posting (as required for signature campaigns) ultimately the numbers of posts came down heavily.
Due to merit system also several people could not earn a single merit and ultimately could not be promoted to junior member. So they were not allowed to take parts in signature campaigns of various projects resulting they ran away from the forum.
There is a circle to every economic activity.. after every bull phase there is bound to come bear phase and followed by bull phase again. So when the bull phase will start; such people who have stopped writing here will start again and the post count will increase.
So there is no death to the forum; it is just relaxing from the pressure of bounty hunters (I have seen some people calling them shit posters)
Number of users / posters have definitely decreased and that is because bounty hunters are now away due to bear phase. in bear phase bounty hunters were not getting paid because of no value for the coins they were earning. so they stopped working / posting (as required for signature campaigns) ultimately the numbers of posts came down heavily.
Due to merit system also several people could not earn a single merit and ultimately could not be promoted to junior member. So they were not allowed to take parts in signature campaigns of various projects resulting they ran away from the forum.
There is a circle to every economic activity.. after every bull phase there is bound to come bear phase and followed by bull phase again. So when the bull phase will start; such people who have stopped writing here will start again and the post count will increase.
So there is no death to the forum; it is just relaxing from the pressure of bounty hunters (I have seen some people calling them shit posters)
Bitcointalk is the backbone of crypto world and this is the place where all crypto encaustic people gathered around. It will never die because it's just not only a forum, bitcointalk is thought, an idea, an innovation, and still it's in early age and keep growing. It's making people educate about blockchain technology.
Bitcointalk is not dying. Just visit the Development & Technical Discussion board or Bitcoin Technical Support. Not to mention the general B&H board and what you will see is that almost all users asking for some type of help get the appropriate help and feedback by BT members, sometimes in less than 1-2 hours. A community with plenty of members who are willing to help others by sharing their knowledge and doing research to come up with solutions to problems, is not dying in any way.
Bitcointalk has strongly been alive, instead.
Who controled it?
In the year 2018:
Merit system is a big revolution of bitcointalk forum.
The demotion of Junior members and new requirements on that rank is the second revolution of the forum.
Let's be realistic. Bitcointalk is dying.
Who controled it?
Code:
+---------------------+---------------+
| 30day starting | registrations |
+---------------------+---------------+
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| 2017-12-20 00:00:00 | 238433 |
| 2018-01-19 00:00:00 | 136872 |
| 2018-02-18 00:00:00 | 107237 |
| 2018-03-20 00:00:00 | 87087 |
| 2018-04-19 00:00:00 | 89659 |
| 2018-05-19 00:00:00 | 83999 |
| 2018-06-18 00:00:00 | 72430 |
| 2018-07-18 00:00:00 | 61360 |
| 2018-08-17 00:00:00 | 43451 |
| 2018-09-16 00:00:00 | 43516 |
| 2018-10-16 00:00:00 | 35335 |
| 2018-11-15 00:00:00 | 31502 |
| 2018-12-15 00:00:00 | 20733 |
| 2019-01-14 00:00:00 | 20046 |
| 2019-02-13 00:00:00 | 2763 | [PARTIAL PERIOD]
+---------------------+---------------+
| 30day starting | registrations |
+---------------------+---------------+
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| 2017-12-20 00:00:00 | 238433 |
| 2018-01-19 00:00:00 | 136872 |
| 2018-02-18 00:00:00 | 107237 |
| 2018-03-20 00:00:00 | 87087 |
| 2018-04-19 00:00:00 | 89659 |
| 2018-05-19 00:00:00 | 83999 |
| 2018-06-18 00:00:00 | 72430 |
| 2018-07-18 00:00:00 | 61360 |
| 2018-08-17 00:00:00 | 43451 |
| 2018-09-16 00:00:00 | 43516 |
| 2018-10-16 00:00:00 | 35335 |
| 2018-11-15 00:00:00 | 31502 |
| 2018-12-15 00:00:00 | 20733 |
| 2019-01-14 00:00:00 | 20046 |
| 2019-02-13 00:00:00 | 2763 | [PARTIAL PERIOD]
+---------------------+---------------+
In the year 2018:
Merit system is a big revolution of bitcointalk forum.
The demotion of Junior members and new requirements on that rank is the second revolution of the forum.
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Is it spam? No. You have to admit it. I don't believe anyone who sings the praises of this system. But this is not the only problem. The decline in activity in the cryptocurrency market contributed to a sharp decline in the number of new projects. Previously, each forum participant could take part in signature companies and become a member of the cryptocurrency community without money. Now it's almost impossible. I think that the forum moderators consider their mission to popularize cryptocurrencies fulfilled and the number of users will be constantly reduced.
Let's be realistic. Bitcointalk is dying. But this is a controlled decrease in activity. The emergence of the merit system on the forum created by moderators in order to reduce the appearance of new users and create problems for everyone else. Is it spam? No. You have to admit it. I don't believe anyone who sings the praises of this system. But this is not the only problem. The decline in activity in the cryptocurrency market contributed to a sharp decline in the number of new projects. Previously, each forum participant could take part in signature companies and become a member of the cryptocurrency community without money. Now it's almost impossible. I think that the forum moderators consider their mission to popularize cryptocurrencies fulfilled and the number of users will be constantly reduced.
I refuse to believe that anyone other than people involved in account farming and/or shitposting could write such nonsense. Oh wait. 
To those of you who would like to see more healthy discussions, there is a simple solution - start quality discussion threads, and contribute to those that have already been started. I thought that my coffee lounge thread in the Ivory Tower might create some interesting opinions. In fact there have been some good replies, but it is pretty much ignored. Sometimes I start to think that members are only interested in pushing their signatures.
But, but, my shitposting income!! 
A healthy tree is not dying because you prune the dead wood.
To those of you who would like to see more healthy discussions, there is a simple solution - start quality discussion threads, and contribute to those that have already been started. I thought that my coffee lounge thread in the Ivory Tower might create some interesting opinions. In fact there have been some good replies, but it is pretty much ignored. Sometimes I start to think that members are only interested in pushing their signatures.
To those of you who would like to see more healthy discussions, there is a simple solution - start quality discussion threads, and contribute to those that have already been started. I thought that my coffee lounge thread in the Ivory Tower might create some interesting opinions. In fact there have been some good replies, but it is pretty much ignored. Sometimes I start to think that members are only interested in pushing their signatures.
Let's be realistic. Bitcointalk is dying. But this is a controlled decrease in activity. The emergence of the merit system on the forum created by moderators in order to reduce the appearance of new users and create problems for everyone else. Is it spam? No. You have to admit it. I don't believe anyone who sings the praises of this system. But this is not the only problem. The decline in activity in the cryptocurrency market contributed to a sharp decline in the number of new projects. Previously, each forum participant could take part in signature companies and become a member of the cryptocurrency community without money. Now it's almost impossible. I think that the forum moderators consider their mission to popularize cryptocurrencies fulfilled and the number of users will be constantly reduced.
Based on forum stats:
Average online per day: 178.41
I’m not even sure what that ratio means (people?, minutes?, Seconds?). I’d say minutes in a session makes most sense.Average online per day: 178.41
If we compare the number to the same stat from 05/01/2012 (see https://web.archive.org/web/20120105092319/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats), that same ratio indicated 262.76. With only 46425 forum members back then, it seems that the ratio makes more sense being average session time.
By the way, interesting to see on the referenced 2012 stat the most viewed topics ("GUI Mining …", "[1233 GH/s] Slush’s Pool …", "Deepbits.net PPS+Prop instant payouts, we pay for invalid blocks too", "Phoenix – Efficient, faster, modular miner", "DiabloMiner GPUMiner …", I just got hacked - any help is welcome! (25,000 BTC stolen) (*), "[1000 GH/s] BTC Guild …".
Conceptually, it would be nice for the official forum stats to be parametrizable by dates, so as to narrow down the stat to last month, quarter, year and so on. Not trivial though.
(*) The thread is 32 pages long, and has quite a fair share of controversy whether the claim is legit or whether it was a self coup-de-BTC. That currently (not back then) is equivalent to nearly 90M USD.
Parts of the stats page seem to be dead since December 2017
Yup.Something is rotten in the stats of Bitcointalk.
Quote from: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=stats
Most Online: 7150 - April 10, 2013, 08:12:15 PM
Online Today: 0
Online Today: 0
The relevance of the forum is not determined by the number of users active or posts being put out, but by the number of quality content and healthy discussions being had which grows the cryptocurrency knowledge of the community, which is the goal of Bitcoin forum.
The most active boards are not the ones I frequent often, but rather those that interest me, and from which I can learn a few things.
The most active boards are not the ones I frequent often, but rather those that interest me, and from which I can learn a few things.
I agree with you.
I'm here more than 5 years and learned a lot about bitcoin and crypto, when I just begin my journey in the crypto world.
Later we had a lot SCAMS because of signatures campaigns but now situation is better.
I don't care much about number of users but number of quality posts I can find on the forum.
The relevance of the forum is not determined by the number of users active or posts being put out, but by the number of quality content and healthy discussions being had which grows the cryptocurrency knowledge of the community, which is the goal of Bitcoin forum.
The most active boards are not the ones I frequent often, but rather those that interest me, and from which I can learn a few things.
The most active boards are not the ones I frequent often, but rather those that interest me, and from which I can learn a few things.
If any member left or try to forget family for a short time that doesn't mean that family will not belong.
Not unless the new forum will be launched. And yeah, they'll surely comeback once bitcoin has gone up again to its crazy value. Old forum account will also surely comeback when some of it has been bought through the shadows, we really can't control such thing as this.
But I agree on behalf of you buddy. Forum doesn't die eventually, only the admin can shut this down. As long as it is running through the internet, even if it has no active members left it isnt and wont be considered as to be dead.
There is no way to deny that users of bitcointalk aren't active like past times. But i can't be agree with OPs doubt that bitcointalk is going to die or not. Users will come and left depending on crypto market situation but forum will be on its place. Its true many users left this place after getting their profit but I beleive forum will not die just for their departure.
I always like to share that we are not only community members. We are a family here. If any member left or try to forget family for a short time that doesn't mean that family will not belong. That time isn't too far when we will get all our old members back on the forum again. Forum only needs them who actually care about forum. We don't need scammers, spammers, trollers or any simillar person like them.
I always like to share that we are not only community members. We are a family here. If any member left or try to forget family for a short time that doesn't mean that family will not belong. That time isn't too far when we will get all our old members back on the forum again. Forum only needs them who actually care about forum. We don't need scammers, spammers, trollers or any simillar person like them.
I'll rather go with more healthy and quality traffic,than a whole lot of traffic that's simply about posting off-topic Just to earn. Discussions are the basic of this forum and it's our duty to keep discussions alive,but we sure would not do that at the expense of the word "Quality"
On the eye,i think the level of posts have dropped on the forum, this in part may be due to falling prices of cryptocurrency etc
But to tag the forum as near dead is wrong,back in the days the forum didn't have as much traffic as it does now, but every bit of traffic it got then was worth it and beneficial.
If we'll be going back in time,then it's totally acceptable by me
On the eye,i think the level of posts have dropped on the forum, this in part may be due to falling prices of cryptocurrency etc
But to tag the forum as near dead is wrong,back in the days the forum didn't have as much traffic as it does now, but every bit of traffic it got then was worth it and beneficial.
If we'll be going back in time,then it's totally acceptable by me
It would be fantastic if instead of numbers, thousands of statistics of this, of that and bla bla bla. People could link to good discussions that are taking place. The forum will only die when its real purpose, which is to have good discussions on matters related to Bitcoin, no longer exists.
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For the OP,
What do you call the forum is for the period before 2017?
Did the forum been dead before 2017?
The following time series plot (for more details, please visit the original thread to get them), shows that months, nearly one year after the implementation of merit system, monthly registered accounts have fallen to almost the same range before spamming endemic in 2017 and 2018.
The merit system launch is a shock for spammers, whislt it is extremely good for the forum.
Eventually, spamming endemic has been likely wipened out, for now.
In my opinion, the forum has not dead.
In contrast, it has been realived.
There are some coincidence between plots.
What do you call the forum is for the period before 2017?
Did the forum been dead before 2017?
The following time series plot (for more details, please visit the original thread to get them), shows that months, nearly one year after the implementation of merit system, monthly registered accounts have fallen to almost the same range before spamming endemic in 2017 and 2018.
The merit system launch is a shock for spammers, whislt it is extremely good for the forum.
Eventually, spamming endemic has been likely wipened out, for now.
In my opinion, the forum has not dead.
In contrast, it has been realived.
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Notes:
It's not exact intra-month registered accounts over years due to days on which theymos scrapped data.
However, we can assumed those figures are for intra-month data.
ABSTRACT
(1) 50% of observed months have intra-month registered account range from 2311 to 27790 (the interquartile range);
(2) 50% of observed months have intra-month registered account above or below 10432 (the median);
(3) The intra-month registered account fell 91.6% from its all time high in 2017 at 238400 to 20046; whilst the bitcoin decreased nearly 83.9%.
(4) The demotion on Junior Members in September 2018 probably caused intra-month registered accounts fell considerbaly later months.
(5) The difference in means of before and after periods (cut-off timepoint is Sept. 2018) is -63.6%.
Time-series plot
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Notes:
It's not exact intra-month registered accounts over years due to days on which theymos scrapped data.
However, we can assumed those figures are for intra-month data.
ABSTRACT
(1) 50% of observed months have intra-month registered account range from 2311 to 27790 (the interquartile range);
(2) 50% of observed months have intra-month registered account above or below 10432 (the median);
(3) The intra-month registered account fell 91.6% from its all time high in 2017 at 238400 to 20046; whilst the bitcoin decreased nearly 83.9%.
(4) The demotion on Junior Members in September 2018 probably caused intra-month registered accounts fell considerbaly later months.
(5) The difference in means of before and after periods (cut-off timepoint is Sept. 2018) is -63.6%.
Time-series plot
There are some coincidence between plots.
The following charts show:
- The number of historical Bitcointalk posts created between 2 different consecutive readings (*)
- BTC price evolution in USD (source: /www.barchart.com).
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- The number of historical Bitcointalk posts created between 2 different consecutive readings (*)
- BTC price evolution in USD (source: /www.barchart.com).
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