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Topic: Bitcointalk.org activity statistics by broad category (Read 956 times)

legendary
Activity: 1316
Merit: 1000

I'd be interested to know the growth rates in comparison with the price jumps over the years.  I can imagine registrations start increasing pre price bubble.
sr. member
Activity: 252
Merit: 251
Knowledge its everything
From the table
Most people often discussing About Alt-Coin when this forum for bitcoin discussion  Shocked
And as usual, people often discussing about mining  Grin

But, i think we need table for a month to get accurate result  Smiley
sr. member
Activity: 462
Merit: 250
Thanks for bothering to do the work
I am a little sceptical about how representative the data is of actual btc ecosystem priorities and concerns
Noise vs signal a touch too high right now to draw reasonable conclusions
hero member
Activity: 910
Merit: 1003
Bitcointalk.org posts by topic, updated

Below is a breakdown of the 239 recently most active threads in this forum, captured a few hours ago.  For comparison, I copied the similar statistics tallied on June/21 and July/25:

2014-06-21    ! 2014-07-25    ! 2014-09-25    !
--------------+---------------+---------------+
Posts !     % ! Posts !     % ! Posts !     % ! Category                      
------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------------------------------
    8 |   6.7 |    14 |  12.6 |    28 |  11.7 | Off-topic                      
    4 |   3.3 |     7 |   6.3 |    15 |   6.3 | Gambling                      
   18 |  15.0 |    12 |  10.8 |    58 |  24.3 | Bitcoin mining                
   37 |  30.8 |    22 |  19.8 |    23 |   9.6 | Bitcoin non-mining            
   53 |  44.2 |    56 |  50.5 |   115 |  48.1 | Altcoins (including mining)    
------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------------------------------
  120 | 100.0 |   111 | 100.0 |   239 | 100.0 | TOTAL                          


Explanation

To create the last table, I quickly copied the first 6 pages of the list of most recent topics posted to, spanning about 1 hour, and manually classified the 240 threads listed there (minus one repeated entry) in the above categories. (This is not quite a sample of the recent posts, since each thread was counted only once even if it had several posts within that interval.  So the most active threads are under-represented.)

Comments

In all three epochs, about half of the activity seemed to be related to altcoins.  Activity about bitcoin proper (mining and non-mining) was 46%, 31% , and 34% in the three samples; the difference was taken over by gambling and other threads unrelated to cryptocoins.  

Among the posts about bitcoin proper, the fraction about mining seems to be increasing.

In June, of 37 posts about bitcoin proper, excluding mining, 18 (49%) were in Chinese language.  This time, the proportion was 9 out of 49  (16%) only.  (However, this proportion is likely to vary a lot along the day.  The last sample was taken at about 02:00--03:00 UTC, which is 10:00--11:00 am in China.  I did not record the hour of the previous two samples.)

EDIT: Here are the samples of thread headers used to make those tables:

2014-06-21
2014-07-25
2014-09-25

The headers were edited to remove funny characters and indicate the language (with [CN] or [Chinese], [RU], [DE] etc.).  Titles in some foreign languages were translated through Google.
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