Topic: [Interviews] with Bitcointalk members - page 25. (Read 30762 times)

Correct! I used the same orders in OP.

I don't know which criteria are used in OP. It likely is chronological orders of interviews only.

My suggestion for order criteria:

• Registration year: Each period, people have different (common) reasons to join forum. It is interesting to see difference in why people join the forum in the same period. At different periods, it's biassed to compare such (like we should not compare Pele, Maradona with Messi and Ronaldo).
• Current rank: Current rank somewhat reflects their activities and contributions on the forum (but I'd like to skip merit statistics here).
• Alphabetical orders of usernames
• Lastly, but if is chosen, it should be the first one: categorization interviewees into scammers and non-scammers

I'm not worried about an effect on myself, rather than inadvertently stirring some new trolldrama somehow. These days I can't even flag a lying piece of shit fake escrow without getting 20 threads of garbage in response.


Oh that is without a doubt my specialty.


You might be onto something here but (1) I enjoy reading other people's interviews here with the assumption that they're honest and truthful so it would seem ill-mannered to not repay in-kind; and (2) fiction would probably stir up more drama, not less.


Ah damn, doing a video of my interview while dancing was my plan but now I can't do it since you spoiled the surprise.


That's what I'm here for. Well, that and pooping at parties. Interviews and dancing - not so much.

I too hv the same opinion; why deprive us interested ppl to have a sneakpeak into tht mind of your? 

Each of our opinion is far too important to be maligned by fake propoganda; also I nvr took you for one who wud shy away from criticism or be afraid of smear campaigns, so as not to put across your opinion.

My bucketload of popcorn is ready... Do put up your interview...


P.S. @tranthidung like your format OP plz consider it.

It's in the same order as in the OP, which is chronological order.

I would assume that it would be the better format: if someone were looking for a particular user, they could simply search for them. Right?

Looks great and I support this proposal.  Can we make it in alphabetical order, (even if it's Legendary, Hero etc rank first, then user name sorted second)? Please?

My proposal for your OP format. I made this table and you are free to use it if you like.  

Fuck those diptwat wannabe fans of yours, korner (whoever that is?) and Quickseller.

Why let trolls, stalkers or fans control your forum involvement - or even assert that lametwats have any kind of substantive and meaningful effect upon you?  - even quickseller participated herein... It's a thing...

I don't believe it... must be a different reason... real reason.. you are a party poop!!!!!!    

By the way, you need not tell the truth in these responses.  You could make shit up that is somewhat loosely connected to reality, since we are all avatars on the interwebs, anyhow.  AmiNOTrite?

In essence, this is my lame-ass way (#nohomo) of attempting to cajole you into some kind of participation, herein.. it is good for the community, and of course, we know that you know how to write and it's not like we are suggesting that you perform an interpretive dance, that might not be your skillset, perhaps? and sure, be brief like peloso if you like, but ultimately even brevity (which of course does not tend to be one of my skillsets) can be a form of creativity.



Got your little jab in there, though.    

It is my pleasure to receive your invitation and sure I am going to answer your questions. It is kinda (un)official and indirect recognition of my value & contributions on the forum from you in particular and from community in general.

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1. When and why did you become interested in cryptocurrencies?
Short answer: first time in 2014, second time in 2017.

It is a long story.
Honestly, I heard and read about Bitcoin circa 2014 when the news about Mt. Gox was spread over the Internent, includes my local newspapers. Unfortunately, I simply read news and skipped it (my regret). I believe everyone read such bad news the first time do feel fear of bitcoin. Furthermore, back in the days, Bitcoin was mentioned as a 'virtual currency', that is truly a wrong and misleading term. In my nation (Vietnam), the government control, screen and control what are published on newspaper, Internet (mostly) and they intentionally to seed the term 'virtual currency' and keep it plays as a very first barrier to local interest and adoption with bitcoin (expands to crypto).

In 2017, I got an invitation from my brother in law (who is an IT coder) to invest in crypto. He said he made trial investment from $1000 and got big profits. Important thing is he shows me his belief in bitcoin and crypto, not his portfolio history and balance. In reality, he invested earlier than in 2017 and bought ETH around the DAO hack. He waited for too long and ETH price did not grow well so he sold most of his ETH around $15 to $20, just keep a small amount of ETH to sell it above $1000 later months.

The year of 2017 is when I truly invested in bitcoin and crypto. I spent ~ 2 weeks to research about them, and began my adventure in crypto. I wish I had began sooner.

2. When and why did you buy your first bitcoin?
I don't remember exactly but I bought my first bitcoin ~ April 2017. The reason behind that is not to simply invest in BTC. Honestly, I bought it as a gate into crypto, then buy ETH. People who was in crypto 2017 know how ETH looks 'promising and potential' back in the period.  

3. How did you get on the forum?
Google, sure.

I simply read and did not create my account. I created my account when an influencer in my country provided a tip to join airdrop. He is an expert in crypto, knowledgeable I meant. I followed him for a long time and impressed on what he write about bitcoin, altcoin and the market actions. I am curious what's going on the forum, what is airdrop, how to join, blah blah.

Somewhat, it is my shame to start this way.  

4.1. What prevents mass adoption of cryptocurrencies?
Governments' misleading social campaigns and local laws. They don't like bitcoin, crypto, and sure they try to prevent people get 'healthy and natural' exposures to crypto. Another factor is ages. The elderly always be more cautious with anything strange and looks risky, volatile. The younger population is better to adopt crypto.

4.2. How do you think mass advertising of gambling projects has a positive effect on the development of the forum or harms the community?
It is a complicated situation. First, let's get started with difference in culture and moral principle of the Western and Eastern nations. In the West, gambling is legally but in the East (or at least in my nation) it is illegal. Moreover, Buddism is more popular in Eastern nations and gambling is one of unaccepted things in the Buddism.

To expand, it is similar when someone shill projects or simply wear a signature of a shit project (mostly scam), it looks like "Oh I wear it, and I don't do anything more. People have to be responsible for their decisions". I thought of it the same (back in past, I did not understand how bad shit altcoins are). Now, my minds change and I think people should not promote for scam projects.

4.3. How do you consider whether 2-3 years of experience in cryptocurrency is enough to successfully invest or does an investor need to receive special education?
Maybe up to 4 years. Education and learning is important basics but they are beginnings. To be survive in crypto, people need to practice and get losses. Vital point is "Don't use all your money to invest. As said, you will get losses so let's start with small fund, and accept losses, get lessons and improve yourself". All in investment, you have a single chance (mostly a death penalty). Not all-in investment, you can have 10, 20, 30 chances.

5. What do you think of the current Merit system and signature campaigns?  Do they harm the forum?
Merit system works perfectly. It works as it was planned to do. I do see chances to earn merits recent months are easier than the past. Newbies should take it as motivation reward and keep up working, keep the forum clean. ^{[1] see evidence from statistics}

Signature campaign, it is good if participants be aware of what they are doing. It is not their homes, and can be shutdown anytime. So to keep their chances to earn money here, they have to contribute.

6. The most useful forum topic? Most helpful users?
Most useful forum topic: It's hard to say. Rules of course. However, I'd share the 3 inspirational topics:

• Bitcoin and me (Hal Finney)
• Satoshi's lesson
• Welcome message (of course)

Most helpful users: LoyceV (help me a lot), DdmrDdmr, pooya87, o_e_l_e_o, TheBeardedBaby, fillippone (a rising star), wwzsocki (who helped when I was in trouble), Hhampuz (very kindful guy & professional manager).

7. 3 things you would implement on the forum?

• Increase the exposure of Welcome message as requested there
• I'd like to see demotions on users who are actively post, and don't get enough minimum merit. Maybe recount after 6 months or 1 year. Shitposters can not rank up high nowadays but old-era shitposters are still spamming (because they are not demoted).
• A new rank above Legendary for members have 4000⁺ earned merits.

8. Do you trade on exchanges or invest in projects?
Both. I allocate most of my capital for investments.

9. Tell a story about your big profit or big loss?
Big profit: in ETH and DASH in 2017.
Big loss: with a flash crash of DASH (I used margin trade). The crash happened within minutes. I left my computer to eat my lunch, when I came back, it's gone even the price bounced to the range before the crash. Price was dropped about a bit less than /3  

10. What do you think about the DEFI ecosystem?
Scam and hype. People who was in crypto long enough should know the stake and masternode hype trend. It is similar somewhat.

11. Is your anonymity a vital necessity or precaution?
Sure, important or vital. The level of its meaning increases during your time on Internet. Newbies don't care about anonymity at start. Anonymity can not be recovered if you lose it at start!

12. The last cryptocurrency book you read?
Mastering Bitcoin, 2^nd edition (Andreas M. Antonopoulos). More sources are there

13. Advise 3 cryptocurrencies/tokens for investment in the next 1-2 years?
Bitcoin, sure and please let me partially skip the question. I don't want to make a investment advice here.

14. How much will Bitcoin cost at the end of 2020?
It would be somewhere around $14000.

Thank you for the interview (zasad@) and for your reading time, all you guys.

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Edit:

I edited to update with evidence for my statement that earning merits nowadays are easier for newbies than in the past (before mid of 2019).
[1] Chronological changes of top 200 merit receivers / senders since Jan 2018

Were I to contribute an interview to a foreign language thread I would supply my answers in English and either request the interviewer translate them into said foreign language (after all, you have to trust an interviewer to give them the interview in the first place Q.E.D.) I would request the interviewer supply my with their translations which I would then run through Google Translate then approve their posting the answers, or, post the already translated answers myself.

I doubt it's broken English that's stopping peloso from answering more that they don't want to be tripped up later contradicting themselves. (or rather their alts)

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Exactly.

what else you interesting?  
you can ask
dont be shy ))

your questions above i cant understand )

1: New rank, I'm getting bored as there's no higher ranks to aspire to acquire. Sorry for been selfish 😁
2: More local boards.
3: Demerit.

I do both but not that good at any 😁.

Loss: [Curve DAO Token] Be careful with this project lost ~0.17BTC ~ $2000 trading it.
Profit: Yet to come.

Reserved my comment as I'm still studying/experimenting on the sector

Just a precaution for the time been.

Unfortunately I haven't read any.

Bitcoin, Ethereum and Binancecoin

>$13,000

15. PS,  Don't make the same mistakes I did, hold onto your Bitcoin.

Hi zasad@, it's my pleasure to take part of this interview. Thank you so much for giving me the chance.

1. When and why did you become interested in cryptocurrencies?
Late 2013, when Bitcoin hit the ATH at the time of over $1k. It seemed insane to know that a digital currency could be worth that much, so I started digging up as much information as I could and almost instantly started looking for ways to earn my first satoshis on my own.

2. When and why did you buy your first bitcoin?
My first coins weren't bought but earned through faucets and gambling. It was in either Dec 2013 or Jan 2014. To be honest, with every single satoshi I earned I was more and more excited to be part of this journey.

3. How did you get on the forum?
Sincerely, I have absolutely no idea how I found out about the forum. The closest thing I can remember is that PrimeDice usually hosted giveaways and you had to own a Bitcointalk account. This might be it.

4.1. What prevents mass adoption of cryptocurrencies?
Mass adoption will never happen due to the decentralized nature of cryptocurrencies. Unless there is at least some level of control authorities could earn, it'll be pushed back as much as possible while the governments are looking for ways to somehow add an artificial trusted third party into the game. That is regulations and, most of all, KYC.

4.2. How do you think mass advertising of gambling projects has a positive effect on the development of the forum or harms the community?
I don't necessarily see it as a bad thing. The answer to this is on a case-by-case basis. I have been there and, honestly, gambling is one of the ways I've been "abducted" by this community. As I answered to the third question, it's probably gambling who I should thank for bringing me onto this forum.

On the other hand, we have addiction which certainly is a bad thing that could turn your life upside down in no time. However, let's face the truth: those who are going to be baited by crypto gambling would've probably been baited at one point in their lives by gambling anyway.

4.3. How do you consider whether 2-3 years of experience in cryptocurrency is enough to successfully invest or does an investor need to receive special education?
I personally have almost 7 years of experience right now and I still don't think I have the necessary education to be a great investor. The volatility of crypto markets are way too high not to be tempted to take actions you otherwise wouldn't have taken. Now that we're in the middle of the DeFi hype, I don't even want to imagine how many people who've been hodling solely Bitcoin until few months ago have turned to DeFi and screwed up completely.

Besides the above statement, I believe there's more to it than just experience. Some people simply can't abstain from selling during large drops or purchasing during booms. While some people do get rid of this bad habit through experience, there are others who simply aren't fit enough to be investors and unfortunately lose a large part of their money.

5. What do you think of the current Merit system and signature campaigns?  Do they harm the forum?
The current Merit system is fair enough in my opinion. It certainly did slow down all shitposters significantly and makes them understand Bitcointalk isn't all about signature campaigns and bounties. I've been there myself and I know how tempting it is to create an account to just post crap and expect to earn from it, and I honestly wish there was a Merit system at the time. It makes you look for the answers yourself to questions such as: "Why am I not ranking up?".

Signature campaigns are double-edged swords. On one hand, I personally believe they are more than welcome especially for members such as LoyceV who truly deserve to be rewarded for all the time they've spent on here. I think of these campaigns as some kind of rewards for the work you've done on the forum. On the other hand, they surely do bring waves of soon-to-be shitposters and spammers. But going back to the "reward" part of this paragraph, I am not very sure top-tier members would spend as much time on the forum as they spend today if sig campaigns were not to exist. They may not afford to spend as much on the forum and the reason is very simple: time is money.

6. The most useful forum topic? Most helpful users?
I do not think there is a specific topic I consider to be the most helpful. There are so many it's hard to pick. If there was a board I'd choose, however, it'd be Beginners & Help and Scam Accusations. Beginners & Help for so much useful information and Scam Accusations for whenever you're looking whether a service is a scam or not. For the most helpful users.. I guess this is represented quite accurately by the list of top Bitcointalk Merit earners.

7. 3 things you would implement on the forum?
All the current things I'd like to be implemented are being worked on already and will be pushed to the new forum system.

8. Do you trade on exchanges or invest in projects?
Not really. Sometimes I do, whenever I feel like it represents a good opportunity. However, after many years of trading shitcoins, I came to the conclusion that I would have been much better off if I had held everything I ever owned solely in BTC. With shitcoins, you mostly only get a false feeling of profit while forgetting about Bitcoin, the king itself.

9. Tell a story about your big profit or big loss?
My only very large sudden portfolio changes have been during 2017, and they are all mostly paper losses/profits. That was when I learned what hype means and why it's so financially damaging. Otherwise, my largest actual loss was through an infected PrimeDice bot which stole 0.001BTC from me.

10. What do you think about the DEFI ecosystem?
I haven't studied it in-depth and I will probably not do so anytime soon. I am mostly waiting for the hype to cool down, after which I might be interested in DeFi unless it dies out like ICOs. Unfortunately, my gut feeling says studying DeFi would turn out to be a big waste of time considering how hyped up it is.

11. Is your anonymity a vital necessity or precaution?
I'm not hiding from anyone or anything, but I believe it's important to both us as a society and Bitcoin.

People are starting to neglect their privacy way too much, and that is very concerning. If many years ago many used fake usernames for their e-mail addresses or forum usernames in order not to give up their personal information, nowadays we have Facebook accounts containing so many people's entire history of everything you will, from friendships to stuff they like, from their hometown and family members et cetera. Bitcoin solves this problem, partially. If these institutions and corporations collect your data, why not at least cut the ties with your bank and start having more financial freedom and privacy?

And then, privacy and anonymity is vital to Bitcoin's existence. If we neglect privacy, we don't need Bitcoin as we're going to soon have CBDCs - and trust me, they're going to be fast, easy to learn & use with close to zero fees and so convenient the society will love them. Bitcoin will not be Bitcoin anymore if we give up our privacy. It doesn't bring me any kind of advantage to own some coins if the government will consider me a suspect for not having my coins linked to my personal identity.

12. The last cryptocurrency book you read?
Unfortunately, I never took part of my free time to start reading cryptocurrency books. I do have to do this at one point in the future for sure though.

13. Advise 3 cryptocurrencies/tokens for investment in the next 1-2 years?
Bitcoin and Monero are the ones I trust the most and I'd advise anyone to purchase as soon as they acknowledge the risks. Bitcoin because it's the King and will likely not be rejected by the society thanks to its pseudonymous nature, while Monero is amazing for the anonymity it offers. The main drawback of Monero is exactly the most fascinating thing about it: anonymity will always be the government's enemy.

14. How much will Bitcoin cost at the end of 2020?
Haha, this is going to be fun for sure. Last time I have publicly predicted Bitcoin's price, it turned out to be a massive success as my prediction was that it'd hit $20k by the end of the year - the price being around $700 at the time IIRC.

I personally believe Bitcoin will be relatively "stable" until the end of the year. By stable, I mean it will not move past $15k for a long time. If there's a prediction I'd make, it's that by the end of 2021 it'll be worth between $80,000 and $120,000. But I will not promise I'd eat my sexual organ otherwise.

15. P.S. (Optional)
I'll give here a little advice to the newer members of the community: follow the simplest rules you always hear. Buy low & sell high, never invest more than you can afford to lose, not your keys - not your Bitcoins etc. These are simply golden rules of cryptocurrencies and, as long as you follow them, you should be doing more than fine. I know that Bitcoin's rise from genesis 'till today seems impossible and you wish you knew about it back in 2009, but back then nobody even knew whether it's going to be more than just a tech geek's hobby the same way you have no idea right now what Bitcoin will turn into within a decade.

Read, read, read. Learn as much as you can about everything crypto-related, because the more knowledge you have.. the better choices you make. And last but not least, don't rush any profits no matter how tempted you are. Slower sometimes means better and healthier. Happy hodling!

Interview with Bitcoin SV

1. When and why did you become interested in cryptocurrencies?
On 2018

2. When and why did you buy your first bitcoin?
My first bitcoin was not buyed, it's mined

3. How did you get on the forum?
BSV Promoter

4.1. What prevents mass adoption of cryptocurrencies?
BTC Monopoly prevents mass adoption of cryptocurrencies. BTC is not the only one cryptocurrency in the world

4.2. How do you think mass advertising of gambling projects has a positive effect on the development of the forum or harms the community?
Gambling projects has a positive effect to forum. Gambling is a part of the cryptocurrency ecosystem that cannot be denied

4.3. How do you consider whether 2-3 years of experience in cryptocurrency is enough to successfully invest or does an investor need to receive special education?
1 month of experience in cryptocurrency is enough to successfully invest for clever man

5. What do you think of the current Merit system and signature campaigns?  Do they harm the forum?
Off course they harm the forum. Look at the forum now. Corruption, bribes and escrow mafia occupied this forum

6. The most useful forum topic? Most helpful users?
Scam Accusations section is most useful forum topic

7. 3 things you would implement on the forum?
Verification (3 KYC Levels), Limitation of rights for escrow-occupied users

8. Do you trade on exchanges or invest in projects?
Trading, Investing, Development

9. Tell a story about your big profit or big loss?
Very big profit was on BTC hardfork at 2017

12. The last cryptocurrency book you read?
Satoshi’s Vision: The Art of Bitcoin (Author: CSW)

14. How much will Bitcoin cost at the end of 2020?
about 20k

15. P.S.
Get involved with cryptocurrencies. Take part in mass adoption.

Just to make it clear - zasad@ asked me (and I appreciate that) but I refused, one of the reasons being assholes like korner and Quickseller who will dip anything I say into Grade A bullshit and smear it all over the forum. Besides I'm utterly boring and don't really have anything of any public interest to share.

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To be fair to my dear friend ("/s" - for humourless pricks) peloso, it's probably more than you could write in Russian.

Not exactly "War and Peace" now is it?  After all your huffing and puffing,

THIS:


is all you could come up with?  

1. When and why did you become interested in cryptocurrencies?
it was at feb of 2012 and at that time i began mining

2. When and why did you buy your first bitcoin?
at 2013 in btc-e.com for hodl

3. How did you get on the forum?
i forgot

4.1. What prevents mass adoption of cryptocurrencies?
idiocy

4.2. How do you think mass advertising of gambling projects has a positive effect on the development of the forum or harms the community?
harms the community

4.3. How do you consider whether 2-3 years of experience in cryptocurrency is enough to successfully invest or does an investor need to receive special education?
is enough

5. What do you think of the current Merit system and signature campaigns?  Do they harm the forum?
Absolutely

6. The most useful forum topic? Most helpful users?
later..

7. 3 things you would implement on the forum?

8. Do you trade on exchanges or invest in projects?
Yes

9. Tell a story about your big profit or big loss?
10. What do you think about the DEFI ecosystem?
11. Is your anonymity a vital necessity or precaution?
YES

12. The last cryptocurrency book you read?
13. Advise 3 cryptocurrencies/tokens for investment in the next 1-2 years?
bitcoin only )

14. How much will Bitcoin cost at the end of 2020?
about 13-15k
15. P.S. (Optional)

Questions:

1. When and why did you become interested in cryptocurrencies?
It was on the month of June 2017 when I first heard about cryptocurrencies from one of my closest friend. During class and thesis discussion, we talked about our dream of owning automatic watches and he introduced to me this website. He told me that he was participating into campaign signatures and he was earning money weekly by contributing knowledge to the forum. After he introduced me to this website, I joined this forum knowing NOTHING but only earning money in my mind. I did not know what cryptocurrencies are and about the technology behind it. I quickly messaged various campaign signatures if I could participate as a newbie without even knowing anything about cryptocurrencies!

After a couple of weeks, I felt that I had this obligation to know and explore the wonders of cryptocurrencies as I read that the blockchain technology revolutionized on how payment works using cryptocurrencies. Until this day, I am still at the learning process and I strive each day to learn more about cryptocurrencies so I can share my knowledge to aspiring investors or members in this forum.


2. When and why did you buy your first bitcoin?
The truth is, I never actually bought any bitcoin using my money but I mostly earned them from the campaign signatures I participated way back in 2017. Unfortunately, living with a family of 5 with a single dad was a difficult time for me. Most of my earnings were converted into books that I have been using until now so I can at least help my dad in mitigating his expenses. Instead of using the money he receives from his job to buy my materials, he can allocate it to my younger brothers and for our daily needs. In a way, I indirectly help my dad while I also support myself into buying all the required study materials.


3. How did you get on the forum?
In line with my answer in number 1, it was at the year of 2017 that my closest friend introduced me this website. For the complete story, please refer to my #1 answer.

4.1. What prevents mass adoption of cryptocurrencies?
In my opinion, regulation and volatility of its price prevent mass adoption of cryptocurrencies. Government regulations/prohibitions tend to hamper the growth of cryptocurrency adaption. I mean, I understand their perspective that they would not want to adopt a decentralized form of currency which is free from control but strict prohibitions tend to destroy this potential. Furthermore, its volatility is what makes most investors fear for their investments. Unlike other investment tools present in the market, cryptocurrencies are with the highest risk of either losing/yielding income in a short amount of time. With these on mind, most investors are either skeptical or scared from investing into such.


4.2. How do you think mass advertising of gambling projects has a positive effect on the development of the forum or harms the community?
The mass advertising of gambling projects have both a positive and negative effect in the development of the forum and into the community. Advertising gambling projects tend to be advantageous as it provides exposure and a form of entertainment to users who seek gambling. Unfortunately, most gambling sites nowadays have been taking advantage of the hype of cryptocurrencies as they tend to scam people into losing their money. In addition, this also puts cryptocurrencies in a negative perspective among the public which contributes to its stigma being a 'scam' coin or scheme.


4.3. How do you consider whether 2-3 years of experience in cryptocurrency is enough to successfully invest or does an investor need to receive special education?
In my opinion, 2-3 years worth of experience in cryptocurrency investing is enough for them to know the fundamentals, the DOs and DONTs of investing, and the pitfalls they should avoid. Special education in investing is always welcome as new knowledge would definitely support their growth and contribute to their investing methods.

4.4. You have spent a lot of time looking for cheaters on the forum. Is this a hobby or professional interest?
This is a good question. As a post-graduate student who is studying law, I spend my time looking for plagiarized whitepapers, fake teams, and ponzi schemes as a professional interest with the mindset of contributing to this forum in making this a better place. Whenever I spot these fake projects, it gives me this feeling of happiness that I at least helped these future investors in investing their money in the wrong project. I'll talk about this more when we get to #9.

5. What do you think of the current Merit system and signature campaigns?  Do they harm the forum?
Ever since the implementation of the Merit system, it has been the talk of the town until now. Many people have been constantly debating on whether this actually helps the forum or not. To be honest, the Merit system is a blessing to this forum in segregating some spammers. Most people who have been complaining about the merit system are the ones who have the mindset of 'profit' in their head. They argue that this would prejudice them into joining campaign signatures as it would require them Merits to rank up. Again, this is very contradicting to the purpose of this forum. This forum was created in order to be a place where we can know about cryptocurrencies and latest news about its implementation. This forum should be the place where we learn and help one another about the history, application, and tips into earning cryptocurrencies. If you join this forum with the purpose of solely earning money, this would potentially create spammers and plagiarized contents as they will only adhere to the rules of the campaign (which is to post 20-25 post/weekly).


6. The most useful forum topic? Most helpful users?
I would consider that the Beginners and Help section would be one of the most useful forum topic. When I joined this forum, I learned most of the knowledge there on cryptocurrencies under that board. In addition, that board continuously evolves as more users have been contributing into guiding newbies about the fundamentals of cryptocurrencies.

7. 3 things you would implement on the forum?
Maybe a chat box would make this forum more engaging but this has to be limited to certain ranks and has to be monitored strictly in order to prevent spams and other related stuff.
Another implementation that I think would benefit the forum would be adding a flag option on a thread created by an exposed scammer on the forum. This would require some prerequisites in order to be done but I think this would add an additional layer of protection for future investors if they see a thread with a flag marked on it.

8. Do you trade on exchanges or invest in projects?
Unfortunately, I do not but I hope to invest in projects if I can earn more capital in the future.

9. Tell a story about your big profit or big loss?
In connection with my #2 answer, I mentioned that our family had limited means of income so money is a valuable resource for us. Last 2018, I was invited to attend a conference in my country since the project team behind USI-TECH were there. I was skeptical at first but I learned a lot from the conference that they held. There were lots of investors and I got to learn about the project more. After the project, I had like $150 worth of bitcoins in my local wallet and I thought of investing everything on the project since it promised a 100-150% return after 6 months. Being very naive and easily influenced, I impulsively invested my bitcoins. After 4-5 months, their website crashed and my bitcoins were gone! Until this day, I still remember the pain it caused me since I could have bought some books or food for my brothers. That is why, this is the MAIN reason on why I spend most of my free time browsing on the forum to check for fake projects in the ANN section. I do not want anyone to experience what I have experienced and I want to prevent future investors from losing money. Of course, the value that I invested may be relatively low compared to others but the impact it caused me fuelled my rage against these scammers.

10. What do you think about the DEFI ecosystem?
To be honest, I am not that experienced or well-articulated in the DEFI ecosystem so I will not comment on this one but I would love to know more about this ecosystem!

11. Is your anonymity a vital necessity or precaution?
I think it is both a necessity and a precaution. In the world of the internet, no information is safe as it is exposed to millions of users worldwide. Regardless on how tight your security might be, there will always be that possibility that hackers might find a loophole and eventually hack into your personal information.

12. The last cryptocurrency book you read?
I have not read any cryptocurrency book since I found out most of the things here in the forum. If you guys have any suggestions, you can message me and I will attempt to read it!

13. Advise 3 cryptocurrencies/tokens for investment in the next 1-2 years?
Since I only more about bitcoin, invest into bitcoin! lolol

14. How much will Bitcoin cost at the end of 2020?
We are approaching the 4th quarter of this year and its price has been at $10,000-$10,500 on the past weeks. Maybe by the end of this year, the price would reach around $13-15,000.

15. P.S.
Like what I mentioned on the scam accusation board, I encourage all forum members to be careful before investing into projects in the altcoin section. There are literally hundreds of projects that appears to be genuine but are rotten to the core! Always research before investing guys!

I would also like to thank @zasad for giving me the privilege and the opportunity to share my experience with the forum for 3 years now. Good luck to everyone!

It's better to ask suchmoon

I apologize in advance if my answers are incomplete:
1. When and why did you become interested in cryptocurrencies?
   It was probably 2012 or 2013 when the son of a friend of mine asked me: "Have I heard anything about bitcoin, and what is my opinion about this phenomenon".
   Then I did not find anything to answer him and promised to learn more about bitcoin.

2. When and why did you buy your first bitcoin?
   There is such a site mmgp on the forum, which has a section about pseudo-investments in which various Hyip projects are discussed, in fact, the first purchase of bitcoin was made to invest in one of these projects, of course it turned out
   to be a scam

3. How did you get on the forum?  
   I found out about the forum quite by accident and probably naturally being interested in some project on the web.

4.1 What prevents mass adoption of cryptocurrencies?  
    I think the main resistance to the mass introduction of cryptocurrencies is hindered by the institutional regulatory authorities of states designed to protect national fiat means of payment.
    Among other things under the guise of combating money laundering the authoritarian regimes of some countries are actually fighting cryptocurrencies.

4.2 How do you think mass advertising of gambling projects has a positive effect on the development of the forum or harms the community?
    All over the world, about 3% of the population is prone to gambling and this is no less than about 150 million adults on earth and they will continue to play anyway, Yes, this is a social problem, but this is not the fault of  the crypto
    industry. For the forum, I think that discussing games is more beneficial than harm, it attracts interested users.

4.3 How do you consider whether 2-3 years of experience in cryptocurrency is enough to successfully invest or does an investor need to receive special education?
    I think everything is very individual here. basically, people do not need deep knowledge about cryptocurrency, they just need a general understanding of the mechanisms inherent in the circulation of cryptocurrencies, since most
    investments in cryptocurrency are short-term speculative, but for long-term investment, you need a really deep study of projects and here, of course, you need special professional knowledge, as I think.

5.  What do you think of the current Merit system and signature campaigns?  Do they harm the forum?
    The merit system that exists now on the one hand certainly scares new users, but on the other hand it really attracts crypto enthusiasts and is not a problem for them, as it pushes them to create decent content. this can also be
    attributed to subscription campaigns that take place within the forum. The previously existing ranking system was of course easier, but for example, it did not motivate me and for a long time after registering on the forum, i continued to
    remain mainly a reader, so I think the existing system is not a problem for active users.

6. The most useful forum topic? Most helpful users?
   -These are actually very difficult questions, at different times you may be interested in completely unrelated topics, so the best topic is yourself Bitcoin Forum  
   -The same can be said about the usefulness of a particular user I think all forum moderators and active members of the community deserve every respect. Of course many thanks to the forum creator satoshi

7. 3 things you would implement on the forum?
   -I would like to see the bitcointalk blockchain
   -You could also consider creating a bitcointalk app for mobile phones
   -It is possible to specify the age of the profile on the forum below the number of posts

8. Do you trade on exchanges or invest in projects?
   It is not so active now, after my bitcoins turned to dust due to lack of access to the network during the illness.

9. Tell a story about your big profit or big loss?
   I already told you about the loss above when my almost bitcoins turned into dust, and the most successful year was probably 2017 when in December the exchange rate of a coin like BURST suddenly increased.

10. What do you think about the DEFI ecosystem?
   It is difficult to say while all this is at the stage of hype where more and more companies and users are involved, the ecosystem is only becoming more established in the process of its functioning, all its advantages will    become more
   clear and I hope the risks of investing in such projects will be revealed and minimized, but one way or another it seems that the future is for decentralized finance.

11. Is your anonymity a vital necessity or precaution?
    We all strive for this, but the situation is that complete anonymity is becoming more and more just a utopia and with the development of technology, the situation will only get worse.

12. The last cryptocurrency book you read?
    I think that such a book probably was"How to DeFi"

13. Advise 3 cryptocurrencies/tokens for investment in the next 1-2 years?
    Well, first of all, it is of course BTC and ETH, and possibly Ripio Credit Network (RCN)

14. How much will Bitcoin cost at the end of 2020?
    I think it's about 17,000$

15. P.S. (Optional)
     Thank you @zasad for the survey I had to strain my memory and remember the negative and especially pleasant happy moments associated with cryptocurrency in one way or another.

1. When and why did you become interested in cryptocurrencies?
- In the late 2013. I heard about it two or one year ago than that time but never really understood it or honestly speaking never got interested to spend time on it. One day a client of mine was saying that he accepts bitcoin in his website that clicked something in mind. A payment method? I then wanted to see how it works and then started to realize that it's not a payment method but a revolutionary currency system. I still did not realize that it is going to be this big right now it is.

2. When and why did you buy your first bitcoin?
- Early 2014 I guess. Can't remember the month but I remember that, that client of mine helped me to buy some coins. My intent was not to hold them but to sell them when I will get better price.

3. How did you get on the forum?
- I heard that one can have free bitcoin and will find like-minded people in this place. So I decided to check in. It was not much entertaining, so I was not much active. Yes, I spammed here and there but it was not much interesting, so I was focusing on things that I have in my real world.

4.1. What prevents mass adoption of cryptocurrencies?
- Maybe the culture we have here of holding. Imagine all of us are holding our coins, the circulation will be less hence fewer people will have it. If we are able to build up a culture of using Bitcoin (bitcoin is cryptocurrency for me) in our day-to-day life then we will see more people are involving in it. People will see the use case of bitcoin very easily. Imagine you are buying your appliance, clothes, shoes using bitcoin from the malls. Imagine big brands are accepting bitcoin. Understanding cryptocurrency will be much easier then.


4.2. How do you think mass advertising of gambling projects has a positive effect on the development of the forum or harms the community?
- Why would advertising a gambling website will harm the community? In fact, I believe all those companies who are advertising in this community by paying for their signature campaign is indirectly helping bitcoin. Those users are getting paid in bitcoin, they are spreading the word that they get paid in bitcoin (a side income for sure), other who are around them hear about it now and then and sometimes  they will fall far it too. Maybe not joining a signature campaign but in their own way, they can fancy a job which will pay in bitcoin or they will find a way for them to get paid by bitcoin. It's helping us to adopt with bitcoin.

4.3. How do you consider whether 2-3 years of experience in cryptocurrency is enough to successfully invest or does an investor need to receive special education?
- Interest! Interest drives people. If you have interest in gold then you will invest in gold, if you have interest in real estate then you will invest in real estate. How many around you invest in gold or real estate even they can afford it, and they have good cash flow? Not many. So being with an industry for certain number of years is not the reason of investing in anything, it's the interest of investing in certain industry.

5. What do you think of the current Merit system and signature campaigns?  Do they harm the forum?
- I think the answer about signature campaign is already answered when I wrote about advertising gambling site in the forum. About merit system, I think after long time it was a very good addition to the community. It's certainly disappointed the spammers and encouraged good users who are really interested in the community and bitcoin, to take it over from the spammers. Not 100% but it's better than before. There are still some spammers though but it's okay.

6. The most useful forum topic? Most helpful users?
- Very hard question. This forum is filled with information. I think more or less all the topics are useful and interesting. Time is a key. Think about a newspaper. It's very important on the day it published but in the next day, it's old and the new one takes it over. Every day when people are making posts, you will find some information that is useful for you. So, I will not talk about any specific topic.

Helpful users - more of less everyone who are giving their best thought for this community are helping the community. A user might be a spammer today but in the future he could be the most valuable user in the forum.

7. 3 things you would implement on the forum?
- I have no idea. I am happy the way we are. It's the job for theymos. My job is to help the next guy who has a question about bitcoin.

8. Do you trade on exchanges or invest in projects?
- Not much. I think I believe in holding than trading. But yes, I have some shitcoin which I am holding for long time and the only reason is that I will sell them when they will have better price in bitcoin. The goal is to accumulate my bitcoin holding :-P

Investing in crypto projects - Not much. I tried with ICO boom but ended up with loss. Bitcoin is the only investment I am successful so far.

9. Tell a story about your big profit or big loss?
- I bought ETH when the price was over 0.090+ BTC and then I held them watching them going down and down, I think to 0.026BTC. I kept holding them and then price started to recover and reached 0.088+BTC I guess, I sold those ETH. The big loss was - the stress I took for the long one and half years I guess or more.

10. What do you think about the DEFI ecosystem?
- Maybe another form of ICO boom. I clearly see that a lot of people are going to lose their hard-earned money.

11. Is your anonymity a vital necessity or precaution?
- It is a necessity for me. Besides, I like to keep myself under the radar.

12. The last cryptocurrency book you read?
- Unfortunately I do not read books much. I like audio and video programs. I read online journals and articles.

13. Advise 3 cryptocurrencies/tokens for investment in the next 1-2 years?
- Bitcoin please.
If you are to accumulate bitcoin then buy ETH and NEO I guess.
ETH when it's under 0.030BTC and NEO under 0.0015BTC
Look I am not a financial advisor so please do not really go and buy into them unless you do your own research.

14. How much will Bitcoin cost at the end of 2020?
- 1 Bitcoin = 1 Bitcoin
Let's not compare with any thin air printed fiat please backed by a centralized authority who can do anything to stay in the power.

15. P.S. (Optional)
- Thanks zasad@ asking for this interview. Sorry for the delay. There were some others things on my to do list before I was able to respond you and the viewers of this topic.

Cheers,