Topic: Is the Bitcoin community itself centrally controlled? (Read 1038 times)

Exchanges keep trollboxes because it's fun. For example, being in Poloniex watching charts for an hour alone would be boring as hell without the trollbox. I enjoy chating with random guys and having some guy with some subtle trolling. Sometimes you can find a legit conversation in between all the trolling. Sometimes predictions are correct and sometimes you get scammed (not me since I follow my own agenda I trust none of the predictions). But overall is a good idea, it brings more traffic and fun.

There are hundreds of creative ways to scream "buy buy buy" in a trollbox.  It must get some results, or they wouldn't keep doing it.

Trollboxes made it easy for people just to scream "buy buy buy" or "sell sell sell" in various different ways. You rarely get any decent information from them just biased opinions much like you get in the Speculation sub here (which is basically bitcointalk's trollbox).

People who trade crypto.

Trollboxes make it easy for people to participate in the conversation, but the conversation usually isn't worth having.

Right now I'm sure the busiest crypto websites are the exchanges, which means a lot of people get their info and rumours in trollboxes.  It's a conflict of interest for the exchanges to moderate the majority of all discussion in the crypto community. 

Exchanges already have too much control over the supply of Bitcoin itself, they don't need to control the flow of information as well.

We have bitcointalk, but it's not easy to have certain kinds of conversations here.  Looking at the view counts on the top threads, I'm starting to doubt that there are more than one thousand active accounts at bitcointalk on a given day.  Most topics never get 1000 views, and that includes the topic starter himself clicking it 100 times.  Looking at view counts is what made me realize that the majority of actual day-to-day conversations are happening on exchanges, in chat boxes that barely qualify as human interaction.

My suggestion for a better option is uCrypto.co, which is a new site with a social-media-style layout. 

I'm not affiliated with the site, but I joined last week and was impressed. 

But then I noticed that very few people were joining, despite an announcement at bitcointalk.

Have you ever gotten the impression that bitcointalk is half full of people who talk but never do anything?  Or is it almost impossible to launch a new project because the conversation immediately gets drowned out by lunatics calling it a scam even when there's no money involved?

With uCrypto we have more tools to choose who we include in our closer circles and our community at large.  We can have discussions that are immediately accessible to the kind of crypto enthusiasts we want to hear from, without the altcoin fudders and bagholders and general assortment of trolls who ruin everything.  And we can still use all the other sites we've been using, but with one more option at our disposal.

How many of you have been using Bitcoin for at least a year, but you don't have a single contact who also uses Bitcoin?  Do you actually know anyone "from the Bitcoin community"?  If you wanted to invite people to a Bitcoin-related event, or if you wanted to announce a Bitcoin community project, who would you talk to?  Would you start a topic here, and just give up if it only gets 5 replies?  Send someone a private message here, and wait 2 weeks to see if they'll respond? 

Or maybe you've gone to Twitter and Facebook, and maybe you've had some luck sifting through the hundreds of millions of people who aren't the least bit interested in Bitcoin.  But you've probably shared an important Bitcoin article and noticed that not a single person in your social media network even looked at it. 

How many active connections does your Bitcoin client have?  8?  39?  64?  And do you know any of those people?  If they are your peers, why have you never personally communicated with any of them?  Is that the future - being connected to everyone by machines which keep us isolated from each other?  Like the Matrix? 

There's a better way, and uCrypto.co is worth a try.  You can follow people, unfollow people, start your own Space and make it public or by invitation only.  Bring your real friends, and make new friends who share common interests.  For once in your life, have a conversation with people who already know what Bitcoin is.

Your wallet already connects to peers - now you can too. 

Who gets their info from something called a trollbox.

Right now I'm sure the busiest crypto websites are the exchanges, which means a lot of people get their info and rumours in trollboxes.  It's a conflict of interest for the exchanges to moderate the majority of all discussion in the crypto community. 

2 people seem to have quit already.  It's down to 16 members.   

2 people seem to have quit already.  It's down to 16 members.   

You say uCrypto.co is less active, but I've had more human interaction there than I've had here.  And there are only 18 members there so far, so what does that say about bitcointalk?

Getting everyone to change where they browse to get their crypto news is going to be hard though, I say lets try to make bitcointalk better.

Tl;Dr: This website is not active enough, let me suggest one that is even less active. The point of this thread is the promotion of ucrypto.co, and nothing else.



 
P.S. Wrong section.

I'm starting to doubt that there are more than one thousand active accounts at bitcointalk on a given day. 

My suggestion for a better option is uCrypto.co

Who actually reads trollboxes in a serious way?

I rarely look at trollboxes and when I do it's usually to laugh of odd things people say One or two truths might be said there, but that's pretty much it. it's a trollbox for a reason.

As for your invite to check out this new social crypto thing, I am honestly open to anything and will consider and support whatever majority decides.