Topic: How Many Years on Bitcointalk? Take the Poll! (Read 1008 times)

I can't believe it's been 5 years...

I was extremely active on these forums for the first two years or so, but lost interest after the price stagnated in the low hundreds. I returned for a few months in 2017 as things were getting interesting again but left soon after. Now I'm back and hopefully third time's the charm.

Registration day: January, 5  2014, so 5 years and 6 months here in the forum.

My 5 year bitcointalk.org anniversary is in September 2019. I’ve been buying & involved with bitcoin since May 2014 though so already 5 years involved with/in bitcoin.

My 6th anniversary was a few weeks ago and the only difference between us is that I am still a hero because never rushed to rank up and additionally merit system was introduced a few days before my promotion, I was still senior back then. TBH I am a hero from a few weeks as you see in my private text.

At the start of the merit system, I was really mad because it took me by surprise and the last few weeks I counted every day to my Hero promotion.
I was shocked, mad, disappointed, surprised when the merit system was introduced, but with the time started to appreciate the system, when I saw how big impact it has on me and the forum.
From a total shitposter, evaluated to the 200 most merited members club and finally, I feel like a real member of this forum.

I knew Bitcointalk long before, registered my first account, which was opened after a year of only reading and got hacked after some time when the passwords leaked.
I couldn't claim back, because lost access to the email and there was no whitelisted wallet address in my account. Took me another few months to open my actual, second account.

My journey with BTC is another story. I was very early in BTC and with an old dual-core laptop was still able to solo mine a few blocks.
After that, I started to mine Litecoin because my laptops were not strong enough for BTC a few months later.

I can literally say that BTC saved my life and this is no joke.

As I have already mentioned, mined a few blocks and stopped with mining, when even LTC wasn't able to be mined with a regular laptop. That was the year 2010 or 2011.
After this, I forget about BTC and crypto for a few years because I was very sick and almost died. After this, I couldn't work in my profession (until today and that is why I started internet marketing) and wasn't living in my motherland for a long time, only changed countries every few years. In the age of 18, I left my motherland and started to travel the world. When I get sick, I was from 2 years in a new European country, where I had no social cover, insurance or even a home address.

I couldn't walk properly. All I was able to move by myself was a few meters and you can't call it walking, so I was sitting on a wheelchair and couldn't work in a foreign country, without the right to social welfare. I had no money so moved to a trailer of very good people (they never asked for money) in a winter, where I had no gas, electricity, internet or phone and that was slowly the end for me. Even if, I wanted to check the crypto prices, wasn't able because I was fully isolated from the outside world. Finally was 2014 and I was already living for 2 years, totally broke in my trailer, with no light, gas, with only a lot of debts and very black, stupid thoughts crawling in my head.

One day I was going to the hospital for therapy with a paid bus and I heard there on the radio that BTC price was already 1000$ and started to fall down.
I knew that I mined something, but wasn't sure how much. This laptop on which I mined was still up and running and I had all files still there.
I remember how my hands shaked when I found the dat.file and the time needed to sync the old wallet with blockchain data from a few years, was the longest time in my life.
Wasn't sure if I will be able to send my coins if not synced properly. When I finally saw the updated BTC balance in my wallet it was the best time of my life.

Sold my BTC litter later only for 450$, but that was enough to start a new life and open my own small company. So literally BTC saved my life and this is no joke.

Around janauray 2016 first time I heard about Bitcoin and then I was not much aware about this technology but I was keep hearing about Bitcoin from the people all around on the social media then I started learning about it on internet. During my learning about Bitcoin in November or december 2016 I found this forum. At the beginning I don't understand about how this forum works but slowly slowly I understand little bit about Bitcointalk forum. I started reading about Bitcoin on this forum and make my account on this forum. It's help me a lot for understanding the blockchain and decentralized system. In september 2017 I make an account on this forum and contribute myself in to this forum. So it's almost 2 and half years for me to join Bitcointalk.

I've been in this forum for almost 4 years. a lot of experience that I can learn especially about blockchain technology with bitcoin which is so popular and valuable. I am grateful that since knowing Bitcoin, at least I can improve the family economy by trading and investing in various crypto markets. Of course, the process is not always smooth in making a profit. In essence, we can make a bitter experience as a valuable experience and a motivation to be successful in this new thing (crypto).

I started using Bitcoin talk since the last quarter of 2017. Luckily I got full members rank but it seems I can get to the next rank anymore because of merit requirements. Eventhough the rules are tough on some other people, I find myself happy for being a member of this forum and keeping myself busy in my signature campaign.

If you divide the activity by 365 you can see the number of years of real presence since the registration of the member.
I'm here since march 2017

I registered here on 24 February of 2017. But after registration I did not understand how the forum works and how to post /use this forum for 3 months. And after then I am active here and trying to learn more and help people if possible by my little knowledge.   Thanks

It's been 5.5 years for me and what a long and strange journey it's been.

 In that time I have regrown my virginity, become morbidly obese and started to go bald.

O how I miss that young tight-bunned idealist. My only comfort as the darkness closes in is to pass on my knowledge before I'm discovered dead in my assisted living apartment and they have to get one of them specialist toxic cleaning teams in because my corpse has melted into the floorboards.

I'd been a member since 2016 but didn't really use it that much until the latter part of 2017...

I just used to read information here in different section before I finally registered in 2014. So I'm here in this forum since 5 yrs. Even after registering I used to post things so little but used to read many threads. 2017 was unfortunate year for me as a forum member coz my account got hacked. So after that I was so upset and was less active than before. Now after getting my account back a month ago, I'm hanging in the forum again frequently.

Thanks for sharing, I also joined forum in July 2017 but in my case I wasn't not introduced by anyone so I lacked direction. I was lost on the forum, i didn't know where to associate myself, I only commented on project I found interesting and wanted to invest in, most of my comments were considered spam but then I didn't know until I was informed and had to clean my account and became more active in the forum starting August 2018 so I can say as a result of online registration I'm almost 2years old on forum but actively almost a year old and it has been a nice journey so far.

Going on 2 years as a member.

I joined five years back when I heard about Bitcoin through ForumPromotion. As I was an active users on various forums, I searched for Bitcoin forums and Bitcointalk was the first one that came up. Hence I registered but due to the 360 seconds policy, I stopped visiting Bitcointalk after making a few posts. I came back a year or so later when I discovered the "secret money-making tactic" of Bitcointalk - signature campaign.

I visited this forum for the first time in the end of 2014 (wow, time flies so fast). I didn't had account, I just browsed Micro Earnings section to find new faucets. I signed up in 2015, but haven't used my account for some time. I only started actively reading and posting here in start of 2016.
You're not only one, lol. There are still few guys, including me . I probably joined this campaign when I was Jr. Member.

Still a bitcointalk virgin here. I joined back in October 2018. Many complain that the place has changed for the worse recently but I like it. I guess it depends on how you see things generally.

I have told my story already a few times, now i'm only a active member from July 2017 and the way I entered the forum is kind of strange.

I have been introduced to BTC cause of my poker playing and just being lucky meeting to right guy @the right time.
My now today one of my better friends introduced me to BTC and learned me a lot, I was a poker player but never had any interest in whatsoever of computer or online stuff etc, but when he talked about BTC, yeah that was the moment he got me and I didn't released him anymore, that guy was already a much more early BTC'er and is a very knowledgeable guy on the matter.

Of-course @the early start I didn't know sh*t and owning BTC, yeah I called hime 24/7 for thoughts and news and FUD that I read etc.

He provided me some place where I could learn and read and have some fun.

One of them was the famous WO-thread on bitcointalk i did enjoyed this a lot and spend my, I think first year only on the WO-thread whiteout knowing there was something else on this forum , so yes I thought the WO-thread was bitcointalk....
I really don't regret that, cause the people I learned there and how they embraced me in the community they have and learned me very much, its just amazing...

Later on I have learned to use other sections and have been active in some others as well

I can really support new guys to visit this forum and share or learn over BTC, cause this is just an amazing place to do so

Now I see i'm not so long active here but it feels like much longer and lately I have done a merit source application, never thought doing that when I see from how far I come @the start of joining this forum.

Came into this forum in 2017,which is less than two year for now.I am really glad that I found this forum on time since it changed my life lot but sometimes I get worried why I didn't find this little bit earlier if that happened then my life will be much better from now since I invested on wrong investment and lost huge money from my saving in 2016-17.

Man, it's hard to believe I've been here just over 4 years.  I've never been a member of any online forum or group for that long, not that I tend to join many anyway.

When I was looking into bitcoin back in 2013-2014, most of the google searches returned results from bitcointalk, and that's basically how I discovered the forum.  There was a lot of drama going on at the time with Mt. Gox and forum stuff, and I also thought bitcoin might fizzle out and die and wanted to read about people's experiences with it.  One thing I noticed was that there was very little censorship as far as nastiness and profanity, and that appealed to me.  A lot of other forums are almost puritanical in that they barely allow disagreement between members, and I can't stand that.

Finally in 2015 I decided to register here and actually take part in some of the discussion.  Glad I did.  It's been fun times ever since.