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ruski

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Quote from: bullioner on August 17, 2012, 06:10:25 AM

Quote from: ruski on August 17, 2012, 06:06:52 AM

It's not really jargon. Welcome!

Okay. Would you agree that it's terminology which is especially defined in relationship to a specific activity, though?

Sure, but it extends to the whole world of trading. Although I live in the trading world so I can see how it's as common as bread to me. Silly me thinking everyone knows what it all means. Sorry! Cheesy

bullioner

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Quote from: ruski on August 17, 2012, 06:06:52 AM

It's not really jargon. Welcome!

Okay. Would you agree that it's terminology which is especially defined in relationship to a specific activity, though?

Quote from: ruski on August 17, 2012, 06:06:52 AM

Welcome!

Thanks.

ruski

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Quote from: bullioner on August 17, 2012, 05:50:07 AM

Yep, I'm new. I've been lurking on speculation for quite a while now, but wanted to make my investment before talking it up. I've now almost fully invested the amount I've allocated for this, so am coming out of the woodwork. I'm not what you folks call a "big player". For me it's a significant proportion of my own savings, but still an amount I can afford to lose, of course. This makes me what you people would call "long", but I can't quite bring myself to use that jargon yet, so I'll just say I've invested in it.

Long means you've bought and expect it to go up. Short means you have sold borrowed coins and hope to rebuy them at a low price to repay them - expecting the price to go down. It's not really jargon. Welcome!

bullioner

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Yep, I'm new. I've been lurking on speculation for quite a while now, but wanted to make my investment before talking it up. I've now almost fully invested the amount I've allocated for this, so am coming out of the woodwork. I'm not what you folks call a "big player". For me it's a significant proportion of my own savings, but still an amount I can afford to lose, of course. This makes me what you people would call "long", but I can't quite bring myself to use that jargon yet, so I'll just say I've invested in it.

ruski

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Not new, but haven't been posting recently. Only really got exciting in the last month or so, and here I am. Was mining and trading last year. Bought Crysis with bitcoins to play on my mining rig Grin

Carlton Banks

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I'm new, but I've been lurking (off and on) for over 18 months.

At first I said "Duh, there's a 21 million cap, how's this economy s'posed to grow? Sounds like the Great Depression"

Then I checked out the graph of the long term gold price

Then I bought a little cache of coins

Then some more

Now I'm here, and I'm rich! (I think.... I hope......!)

salty

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Quote from: sunnankar on August 17, 2012, 01:01:00 AM

Quote from: salty on August 16, 2012, 04:05:44 PM

I'm new and I signed up because I wanted to start exchanging btc face to face, plus sell anything I can make or source locally. I'm trying to build up some btc balance it's my latest interest.

Check out LocalBitcoins.com.

Already on there, only 1 enquiry so far in 2 1/2 months Sad

I guess there's not much demand in my area *shrug*

isthisreallife

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I'm new.

I started buying BTC in June, after a few months of reading. Turned out to be great timing Cool

I'd heard about bitcoin before, and loved the idea, but hadn't had the time to do enough research to get involved in any meaningful way.

Since the growth has been so dramatic it's been a bit hard to shut me up about bitcoin lately Cheesy

A few of my mates have since bought BTC. Another has started accepting BTC for her jeans.

Pure speculation, but I'm sure there are many like me, and it's being reflected in the price.

sunnankar

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Quote from: salty on August 16, 2012, 04:05:44 PM

I'm new and I signed up because I wanted to start exchanging btc face to face, plus sell anything I can make or source locally. I'm trying to build up some btc balance it's my latest interest.

Check out LocalBitcoins.com.

smoothie

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Quote from: Beta-coiner1 on August 16, 2012, 09:14:46 PM

I still feel kinda new,but it wasn't really until the gox got above 10 again did I have any interest again and had many variable coins all over.I think if the news started reporting on BTC there would obviously be another flood.

Yes lol... Cheesy

Beta-coiner1

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I still feel kinda new,but it wasn't really until the gox got above 10 again did I have any interest again and had many variable coins all over.I think if the news started reporting on BTC there would obviously be another flood.

julz

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Quote from: notme on August 16, 2012, 09:01:00 PM

Quote from: julz on August 16, 2012, 08:59:06 PM

Quote from: notme on August 16, 2012, 08:57:38 PM

Quote from: julz on August 16, 2012, 08:53:34 PM

Linear growth at about 2000 users per month over the past 12 months.

It's not really what I'd consider an exciting growth rate, considering it'd take over 40 years to add just 1 Million users at that rate.

Good thing there are a lot of bitcoiners who have never been here, and a lot who have, but never signed up.

Yes, I believe that to be so too - but it's the linear growth which is unexciting. If the forums are growing linearly - then I expect the whole bitcoin ecosystem is also only growing linearly.

This doesn't look very linear and other wallet sites are seeing similar figures:
http://blockchain.info/charts/my-wallet-n-users

Nice.. but a little too early in the life of the blockchain wallet to be drawing much of a conclusion from that pattern I think.
FWIW - I set up over 5 blockchain wallets, but only one bitcointalk account.

notme

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Quote from: julz on August 16, 2012, 08:59:06 PM

Quote from: notme on August 16, 2012, 08:57:38 PM

Quote from: julz on August 16, 2012, 08:53:34 PM

Linear growth at about 2000 users per month over the past 12 months.

It's not really what I'd consider an exciting growth rate, considering it'd take over 40 years to add just 1 Million users at that rate.

Good thing there are a lot of bitcoiners who have never been here, and a lot who have, but never signed up.

Yes, I believe that to be so too - but it's the linear growth which is unexciting. If the forums are growing linearly - then I expect the whole bitcoin ecosystem is also only growing linearly.

This doesn't look very linear and other wallet sites are seeing similar figures:
http://blockchain.info/charts/my-wallet-n-users

julz

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Quote from: notme on August 16, 2012, 08:57:38 PM

Quote from: julz on August 16, 2012, 08:53:34 PM

Linear growth at about 2000 users per month over the past 12 months.

It's not really what I'd consider an exciting growth rate, considering it'd take over 40 years to add just 1 Million users at that rate.

Good thing there are a lot of bitcoiners who have never been here, and a lot who have, but never signed up.

Yes, I believe that to be so too - but it's the linear growth which is unexciting. If the forums are growing linearly - then I expect the whole bitcoin ecosystem is also only growing linearly.

notme

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Quote from: julz on August 16, 2012, 08:53:34 PM

Linear growth at about 2000 users per month over the past 12 months.

It's not really what I'd consider an exciting growth rate, considering it'd take over 40 years to add just 1 Million users at that rate.

Good thing there are a lot of bitcoiners who have never been here, and a lot who have, but never signed up.

julz

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Linear growth at about 2000 users per month over the past 12 months.

It's not really what I'd consider an exciting growth rate, considering it'd take over 40 years to add just 1 Million users at that rate.

SaintFlow

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The first is by definition not flawed.

Quote from: ElectricMucus on August 16, 2012, 04:19:59 PM

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cool story

enjoy your denial

enjoy yours too. Cheesy

I'm not saying they are all sockpuppets. But if somebody finds his way here after just 10-20 posts that is highly suspicious. Even more so if they appear to have a certain attitude... It just fits well together. People just don't wanna damage the reputation of their main account but they surely make new ones in order to squeeze the last sucker out using shitposting.

Why?

When I was new some time ago I lurked a lot before I signed up. But when I did I came quickly to speculation to tell Proudhon to take his neegativity elsewhere. Not that he listened

Chalkbot

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I'm new. Not a sockpuppet, just enjoy trading during the workday and come here to get a pulse on the current attitude toward bitcoin.

In the past I've done stock market trading and betting on the UFC as my daytime leisure activity. Trading bitcoins is much more accessible and often just as exciting, so that's where most of my attention is these days.

Spekulatius

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Quote from: ElectricMucus on August 16, 2012, 04:19:59 PM

I'm not saying they are all sockpuppets. But if somebody finds his way here after just 10-20 posts that is highly suspicious. Even more so if they appear to have a certain attitude... It just fits well together. People just don't wanna damage the reputation of their main account but they surely make new ones in order to squeeze the last sucker out using shitposting.

So you think the average bitcointalk user grows an interest in speculating on bitcoin price post by post and ends up in this subforum after >100 posts and hours strolling the other subforums on here??

Let me tell you I only made 1 post in the newbe section and was then whitelisted to make my first post in this very speculation forum(>> https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/new-indicator-number-of-sites-accepting-bitcoin-35083).

To me speculation or wealth preservance/diversification is one of the major incentives to take a look at bitcoin. So no suprise a good chunk of new users flock to this forum (especially when price goes up).

bitcon

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if it does tank again, it will give ppl a 3rd chance at being early adopters

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