Topic: From reading your old posts how have you changed since arriving here? - page 2. (Read 787 times)

I just had a quick catty judge. You definitely had the right perspective from the off. Lots of vision for the future unlike most. You also seem to have nursed a lengthy and deep seated obsession with blockchain.info but I guess that's understandable if you coins were in there. I can't remember how long I stuck with them but it was a while.

I have re-read the first few months of my time here & the posts are fucking embarrassing to say the least. I really was a cringeworthy little noob in 2014.

I’m a far more refined gentleman these days. I’m sitting on fat bitcoin bags, happy I came here in 2014 but slightly embarrassed at the first few months of posting.





I’m stopping now

Back in the day, I spent most of my time on "Micro Earnings" board and I was scared to post in the "Meta" board ^{[that's a fact ]} since everything was and still is a bit on the serious side...
^{- Most of my posts lacked enough quality and I had a lot of spelling & grammar mistakes (still not perfect).}

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From your previous thread ^{[definitely a better person]}:

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Thanks for making me read my first few posts ^{[on this forum]} after a very long time ^{[you've made my day]}

You signed up one month before I joined the forum and signature campaigns were definitely here then, at least PrimeDice was. I don't think they were the first either but were certainly the most popular at the time. I think Stunna has commented somewhere in Meta on this and the history of campaigns somewhere if you wanted to search for it. I remember being quite annoyed that I'd made over 100 posts before I discovered PD were paying for them. I'd seen the PrimeDice signatures everywhere but didn't realise PD were actually paying for them. At first I couldn't quite believe it because the top amount you could earn per month was about £300-500 a month or something for about 400 posts which is a decent amount for merely posting on a forum. The rates even went up over time and then again when signature restrictions came in with ranks. The spam was kept to a minimum back then but it quickly grew into a problem and practically became its own industry. Now it's mostly been taken over by ICOs but the bitcoin paying ones have certainly dwindled. Back in the day anyone could sign up and start earning top amounts but that obviously started to become abused very swiftly and hence the need for rank restrictions and then even further down the line merit.


Well it probably would be the same reasons why anyone joins a forum on a particular subject. Usually because they're very interested in the topic and want to either discuss about it or learn more. I'd heard of bitcoin probably a few months before I joined the forum and I was very exited about it. At first it was because the political and economical aspects of it that interested me, but I also saw the potential of it as an investment opportunity once I'd read into it more. I actually first heard about bitcoin due to the news coverage it got because people were using it on sites Silk Road. I'd joined a few forums before, mostly of my favourite bands, and had even become a mod of a couple of them, but posting on them and not here quickly became a waste of time really especially when time was money here. I've mentioned this here in the past before, but you often get the older jaded members of a forum who become snobby and unwelcoming to newbies and outgrow it. One board of a band I was a mod at was inhabited by a lot of users who didn't even like the actual band anymore and had turned into snobby condescending hipsters who were now too cool for everything and only cared about the bands that nobody had heard of, but they stuck around like a bad smell making it unpleasant for everyone else, especially the fans of the actual band. The atmosphere really became so toxic that most Newbies just left soon after they joined because it was so unwelcoming and it got so bad that the actual fans even created their own new site and forum. I guess it's not so dissimilar to the other boards that have been created as an alternative to this one but you would think that if people lost interest in bitcoin they would leave. 

It would be interesting to know how many have edited their deep histories. That may well have happened in pursuit of a long con. It's the ones who delete everything I find most mysterious. For starters that must take freaking forever unless there's a bot to do it and second I wonder what there is to hide. Surely not every post is evil and incriminating.



I really can't remember why I signed up and the idea of earning money either didn't exist then or didn't occur to me. It would be interesting to hear from more who signed up in 2011/12 or before and what their motivations were. The idea of making a living from your internet cafe through it would've been non existent.

Thanks for creating this unique topic. It always amuses me of how everyone in terms of posting change into a better person over the time here. Right from the beginning I have skimmed through the starting posts of the top posters here and I really feel grateful how good this forum has changed them over time and has helped them in bringing out their real potential. Almost 90% of the posters started off here as shitposters, trying to earn money etc and have changed to by far the best posters this forum has encountered. I would never quote myself as a decent poster/good quality poster as that is completely based on other's perception on me and how well I post/help others. But to be quite true, this forum has changed me a lot in terms of my real life and in my postings as well.

I started off as a shitposter, but eventually got interested in the varied technology behind the workings of Alts and have been learning about the same quite deeply for over 7-8 months from my registration date. I was very active in Altcoin Discussion and was answering tech based questions by hunting them in the frog pond. Over time it was quite difficult to hunt good quality technical questions in the board and I certainly started learning about the technology behind bitcoin.

This can be considered as a major shift in my posting behavior from learning about tech behind Alts to tech behind Bitcoin. Later after knowing a little about the tech, learning to test Bitcoin Core PRs, translating the whole Bitcoin Core from scratch in my local language, I shifted towards knowing about the Collectibles and did learn a lot about the same. Once I got to know about almost 50-75% of the collectibles section, I shifted towards improving my local board. (Right up-to that moment I made only one post in my local board)

The local board seems to be better now with far less spam and quality contributions emerging and right after this I would like to shift towards the Mining section  Though I can consider myself as a Brand New member in Mining, I would like to learn a lot about that and simultaneously translate the bitcoin.org website in my native language from scratch.

The future would be like after knowing about Mining, I would like to spend a significant time on all the above and would like to have a deep and complete study of everything. Though I got to know about bitcoin only at the end of 2016, I never had an idea on what it is really about. All these were known only through this forum. 

Hello there General Steamtyme! You sound more like young Obi-Wan in your earlier days 

I wonder how many people will be checking their older posts today and having a purge of all the ones they don't like  .


I guess anyone can become this way over time and it depends how involved you became with the forum or how much you care about it (and how much people start to annoy you). It's often hard to see how you yourself changes as it's a gradual process just like you don't notice physical changes in yourself or with weightloss/gain, but others do because they have that outside perspective and often don't see you every day. Being a mod and being partly responsible for the uptake/order of things here certain things can annoy you when you're responsible for cleaning up constantly. Think of it like someone managing a flower garden and kids keep coming in and shitting all over it and pulling the plants out. It would start to piss you off and turn you sour if you were in charge of looking after it day after day, but I've started to care less about certain things though, especially with things I can't really change. I used to spend a lot of time trying to get on top of signature spam and finding abusers of certain things but it's never-ending and I'd just rather spend my time on things less stressful now. Not much point in doing things you can't change or haven't even been asked of you in the first place so it's just unnecessary stress and workload really and there's already a lot of that to go around already.

Well, I’ve since leaned how not to waste my time … (*):


And to recognize my blindness towards ICOs:

(*) Note: As I’ve stated before, it was pretty much experimental, to see what all the fuss was about. I gave up on these practices pretty early, after finding it rather much nonsense and demeaning. I did gather a bunch of worthless tokens though; kind of like my Razzie awards to where I placed some of my time back then.

I did it for you. You appear to have had some hormonal moments starting off but did indeed turn into a butterfly eventually.

Shitposts make me feel like a Matrix operator. I barely see them any more. They sort of float past me undigested. From looking at AI bots talking to each other on Reddit I wonder how many of them are on here. They feel very similar.



The non native English always impress me a great deal. I've always been terrible at reading and writing foreign languages. A lot of posters who turn out to be foreign have better use of English than me. I wouldn't have known unless they'd said.

I swear I came to this forum to troll people but ended up actually learning a lot of stuff about bitcoin and crypto instead--and I also got attached to the dysfunctional community here in a weird sort of way.

But I really don't want to go back and peruse my earliest posts because I'm afraid of what I might find.  I'm sure some of them were pure vitriol, because it drove me nuts how many members here were just writing nonsense posts.  And while that's still true to this day, I think I've become either more tolerant of shitposts or at least inured to them.  

In any case, I've definitely changed in the nearly five years since I registered here.  Maybe not so much as a person, but certainly in the way I make posts.

And you definitely are.  I've always enjoyed reading your concise and often biting posts, which are always well-written and amusing.

The thing that changed is my concept of money. I was thinking that money must be central and you must have a job "in the private or public sector" to be able to make money.
The idea of ​​decentralizing money or printing "mining" that money without resorting to central powers was seemingly revolutionary.

I used to think that Bitcoin is a programming language and have the same financial impact as programming languages.

I was a giant dick for my first 2 years or so at the forum, which was mainly because I was unhappy with my work situation.

Thanks to bitcoin, the blockchain and other cryptocurrencies, I have since remedied that problem, and now am only a medium dick.

I actually regret not making posts throughout the years. I've been registered for quite some time, but merely lurking around. I know when I first joined here, it was for the marketplace, and over time I grew interest in the other crypto related sub forums. I'm definitely trying to be more active now, so that in years to come, I'll be able to answer this properly

After reading your post, I took sometime to examine myself and I must say I have changed completely. I went searching through past post record and I noticed my very first post plus most posts on the 1st & 2nd page of my post history has been edited by me to trash (delete) meaning obviously the post weren't contributing anything positive to the forum. That's not surprising since I didn't start quite well on the forum, most of my early posts are nothing to write home about but I got better, improving on my post quality (english and construction) as my involvement on the forum increased.

Judging from others recent reaction to my posts, from the DMs of acknowledgement of the impact of my threads, to them seeking for permission to translate some of my works (threads). I guess I'm doing something right and on the right track. But if I was to point out one major difference it has to be my English. Although it's not yet perfect, I'm observing some major improvement.

i looked back at my post history once and as far as i can tell i pretty much have the same attitude, the only thing that has changed is my experience and understanding of bitcoin. the interesting thing was that i have made pretty much the same mistakes as newcomers nowadays are making and were confused about somewhat similar stuff.
- using faucets!
- fees (specifically dust since i was foolishly using faucets!)
- choosing wallet
- buying altcoins and thinking they will go to the "moon"

specifically about this last part (i think Doge was around 100-150 satoshi back then and it is 30 today):

aww to be that naive...

More than a few people, most especially merit fishers, seem to mistake flatulent length for 'quality' when it is the precise opposite. I like to be crisp. Deliver your point, or rebuke, or flirtation and depart. That's the mark of of a poster worth a reader's time.

Oh, that's good thread! Just few days ago I had read lot of my earliest posts on Bitcointalk. Few my first posts was in off-topic section, basically I just wanted to try how everything works here. And it was few short shitposts with spelling mistakes .
Then I moved to Micro Earnings section. Then I was very active user of faucets and actually I was earning quite good money from it (compared with current faucets) and I was little afraid to post in other sections because my knowledge still was limited.
But eventually I got more knowledge and started posting in main boards.
Since then, I hadn't changed much as a person and I'm still interested in same things in general. But my posts changed a lot. Previously, most of my posts were short and very specific. Now I'm trying to go more into details. Sometimes my posts is even too long I think, when 1-2 sentences is enough.
And offcourse, I gained lot of knowledge through all these years here. But I still can't call myself expert in crypto.

Old posts, ha-ha....
I was curious about Satoshi and that's how i actually found the forum. Register quite late,  tho.

I thought at one point that Craig was Satoshi... really. Just because I watched that video where Gavin said Craig signed a message from an address from the genesis block. I always tend to believe him, until i started reading more about him and the drama around his actions.

I did learn a lot, and hopefully my English got better

I still don't.



I had no idea I'd become part of the furniture when I arrived so didn't consider the future. I'm fine with the same questions from newcomers. What I'm not fine with is the posters who've clearly not read the thread title or any other replies. That's when I get a bit queeny.

You can know nothing about the subject but still demonstrate common sense, comprehension and courtesy.



If I looked through too many first posts the procession of aching innocence would break me.

Hard not to have improved. Here are my first posts on the forum... my first online forum. I would say I've remained mostly consistent in who I am. I try to maintain an open mind, and as soon as I am somewhat knowledgeable I try to provide others with assistance, up to the point I can. I've also never had a problem pointing out that " I could be wrong" or " am no genius". I've delved more into the drama side of things than I'd like, but sometimes things just can't be left to stand without a reasoned response to follow it. I am surprised at just how large a part of my life this place came to be, to the point where I read it when I'm away on mobile and try to make a point of finding and responding to those threads when I am at a keyboard.

Attempting to trap a person I believe bought a miner wrecked it and returned it through ebay.

And here is naivety I came in with.