Topic: [Poll] Do you feel part of a crypto community ? (Read 2019 times)

Yeah I felt like one because I too studied it, invested some and use some of it on transactions.

yes I am because I've been with crypto world since 2012 I studied so much about it and investing some of my money in it , I also do trading and other crypto related activities for two years and thats make me part of the growing community I think

Well I think I am a part of the crypto community as whole not just by specific coins because In my everyday lives there is always crypto involved when I open my PC there is bunch of crypto related articles that I am really interested about when I need cash I convert my bitcoin to cash seems like crypto related materials becomes my necessity that makes me part of the community I guess

I started feeling part of the Bitcoin community the moment I was introduced to mining, I've never looked back and it's been an unending feeling since then. It's been intensified by my joining this forum as I get to contribute and interrelate with others on issues about our Bitcoin community.

I got that feeling since I started contributing to OpenBazaar's code in March 2016 and also wrote some posts on how to set it up which helped tons of people. I also met many crypto folks through my Bitcoin-related blog so yeah, I definitely feel like part of a crypto community.

I consider myself as a part of bitcoin community because I believe in it, use it as currency, have invested in bitcoin since I believe in it and also I am running a full node to contribute to the network.

but the crypto community in general which also consists of altcoins, no because I don't want anything to do with most of the altcoins apart from trading them to get more bitcoin.

As far as I know at the time we decided to register in this forum and participate in every thread. We are already a part of the community, especially if there are other members here are responding to our question. We have a relation to the community here.

As a communities i see groups of people communicating. Like here we are part of bitcointalk community.   When I am on some slack I am part of that community. When I am on some IRC I am part of that community.  Oh I am also member of Poloniex Trollbox community.

Definitely yes, i am already a part of crypto community, because since last year i have spend with bitcoin and also i do altcoin trading, so no doubt that i am a part of it. And about the feeling, i really feel good to being a part of it, because bitcoin give me a lot of money and the other coin, now i am holding may be in future, it give me profit. 

sure.

i keep up with the news and research stuff best i can, time being the limiting factor.

mine, trade on occasion, spend where i can, buy items from members.

cant code it, but i can use it.

may be in a minor way compared to others, but i do what i can.

In the beginning, it was because of anarchist ideology, and that was good.  Now, bitcoin is essentially indeed over.  It is just a token used in a greedy greater-fool game, and it may even turn in a centralized government thing to control people.  So to me, if bitcoin is not dead, it is almost dead.  Yes, it has a high gamblers market cap.  That's always so with greater fool games. And this one can still last quite a while, and go very high, there are still loads of greater fools possible.  But bitcoin is essentially dead, in the sense of a free alternative to fiat.  It didn't get nowhere.  8 years, and I can still not go to the supermarket and pay my groceries with bitcoin ; I still do not get my salary in bitcoin.  And the day I will (if ever), it will be worse than fiat, because it will be totally state-controlled.  As of now, fiat has a better outlook than bitcoin.  Apart for gamblers.


Of course not.  That's part of the freedom game.  Because if you care about your monetary freedom, you don't hold your stuff on a centralized thing, do you ?  And if you get ripped off, that's perfectly normal, and it is a pity it doesn't happen more often.  You have given away your coins, and you got an IOU on a strange web site in return.  Of course at a certain point, the web site closes.  Who wouldn't do that with people giving you their money in return for something you put up on a web site ?  What was the core idea of bitcoin ?  Trustlessness, right ?  What else than applying trustlessness did these exchanges do ?  They were in the core activity of bitcoin.  Why do you think that there are moderator multi-sig wallets on openbazaar ?  Cryptsy and GOX were simply gambler's houses.  And that's about all that's left of bitcoin.  Gamblers' stuff and greater-fool stuff.  "investment" and "ROI" on a currency.  I'm always amazed that people complain about exchanges "scamming" them.  Hell, what did they do ?  Did they, or didn't they, use their private key to do a transaction ?  Once that's done, they don't OWN their coins any more, right.  That was the basic principle: ownership is knowledge of the private key.  If you have transacted your coins, you don't own them any more.  It is not because you can log on to a website that tells you that "you have 20 bitcoin in your account" that you own them: you don't have the key.  You simply have something that a strange web site is telling you.  *if you believe that*, that's your affair.  In true trustless systems, you shouldn't believe anything.  If things don't turn out as you believed, that's perfectly normal, and the basis of trustlessness, no ?  So why complaining about something that puts the basic principle at work ?  If the majority of bitcoin users complain about the application of the core principle of bitcoin, namely that ownership comes with knowledge of a secret key, and wants centralized justice to take care of that, then I call bitcoin dead.  What's left is zombiecoin, a kind of fake fiat stuff looked after by the People's Bank of China.

If you can go crying at the police and at centralized justice, why on earth would you need a thing that implements, with a lot of waste heat, "trustlessness" ?   Fiat works better in that case.

Bitcoin's "community" wants centralized justice so that their mutual rip-off game is "fair" and in doing so, it killed bitcoin.  And the rest of crypto.

Without trustlessness, which is the basis of anarchy, crypto has no sense.  This is like implementing digital signatures that are verified by a notary.  If a notary has to verify it, there's no need for digital signatures.  If there's a need for centralized regulation on bookkeeping, there's no need for trustless protocols.  In the first case, you can do it with a paper contract.  In the second case, you can do it with fiat and controlled banks.  That's why bitcoin is dead.  Even though its market cap can still increase orders of magnitude.  There's no point.

No, and I'm fine with being a nobody in crypto and on this forum.  I'm happy being a spectator, and since I don't have a background in either math or computer science,  it's going to stay that way.

This forum is my only contact with others who are into crypto.  Don't know any IRL.  And there are thousands of people here.  It's like being at a huge university.   

Yes, I feel part of a community related to the altcoins, but this have been created by a group of friends who are interested in them and we are in continuous learning and communication to take advantage of the cryptos' opportunities and implement them in our daily life. A community should not necessarily be stimulated only by devs, but by the people themselves.

Yes, I feel part of a crypto community.  Because most well known altcoins in crypto the traders and miners are always attracted by the popular coins and these two most often they are connected most of the time due to they are part of the body in the altcoins community.

You think Bitcoin's community is where it is today because of anarchists ideology ?

LOL i think not.. it's called greed.  

I get a kick out of the fact some of you have this little illusion in your head this shit exists to pander to your childish "stick it to the man" beliefs.

Why would anarchists be making a currency ?
Clearly to have no laws or regulation then right ?
Call the cops or join a class action law suit when Cryptsy or GOX stole your money ?

hyyyyyyypoooooooooooocrites

..hand over your picture ID for anon coin profits.. hypocrites LOL

You guys are full of shit big time.

I can relate to that.  The idea to have a "community of anarchists" sounds odd, no ?  You can have common opinions and so on, but a "community" points to something of a form of internal solidarity, "us against them", "Ubermensch", "nation", "family", ....
Of course, if you understand by "community", people that have some properties in common, for instance, an intellectual interest in anarchy, trustlessness, economical relationships, fundamental freedom, etc.... then yes, I belong to that community, like 5 belongs to the "community" of prime numbers.  But whether 5 has some affinity for 7, and not for 9, is another question.

Yes, I'm very interested in crypto, for its anarchist principles on the societal side, and for its technological and systemic aspects on the other hand.  But do I feel any "affinity" with other such human entities, beyond the fact that we have something in common to talk and think about ?  Not really.

Especially because crypto is mainly populated by people wanting to rip one another off (they call it "investing" and "trading").

I am not part of a crypto comunity especially altcoins because
i don't have any projects that be builded on altcoins or other business on them,
except trading altcoins and i think it is not part of a crypto comunity but it is part of traders comunity,
unfortunately there are no comunity of traders altcoins that be followed.

On behalf of the Dash community, who are delebrating Dash third birthday today :



eh, and please no fighting over the cake 

I think Im being part of crypto community as I also read news and updates some altcoins. Though I invested some altcoins, so i feel im being part of the community. Anyone can be a part of the community, since anyone can hold of it. However, I believe into it as being part of community.

well, as long as it keeps paying for them to do so, they will, once people stop accepting it, that is when it will actually stop