Topic: What effect would this forum vanishing have on your life? - page 3. (Read 1109 times)

I don't have twitter and only have reddit because I needed to ask a question once or twice, wasn't worth it. So I really wouldn't want to go that route.

I see so just filling my house with loud hot machines was probably not the way to go. 
Though I think I still get a pass from buying her a PC, through the forum and using BTC when she began teaching ESL online. So double bonus points on the forum and BTC.

@eddie13

I’ve always spent a lot of time online ever since I was about 13 or something. I’ve been on a lot of chatrooms & forums. My gf thinks it’s weird to be honest although for the last 5 or so years I’m only on here & one particular Liverpool FC large Facebook group.

If this forum ceased to exist I’d be a bit lost to be honest, I spend a lot of time here. Met some cool people who are RL friends now.

This place has also encouraged me to keep buying MOAR & MOAR BTC. I initially wanted 10 in 2014, then I wanted to be in the 21 club. My targets started growing & growing & I kept meeting them. This place & BTC specifically has probably made my life. I wouldn’t have the opportunities I now have without this place & BTC until  much later in life from my parents inheritance or something so thanks to each & every one of you.

My GF used to bitch all the time about me spending so much time on exchanges, and trollboxes, even to the point of accusing me of talking to other girls (most specifically dcgirl while helping redesign Cryptsy's user interface), lol..
She was always even skeptical if Bitcoin was even really worth anything at all and not just play money.. Didn't believe me..

And then, one day, I bought her the exact BMW she wanted with my BTC I made..

She has sense forever shut her mouth about all the time I have spent and spend on crypto like magic, lol.. Imagine that..

The moral of the story is, if you want your significant other to become a BTC Believer and become OK with your time spent on crypto, buying them something expensive, that they really want, need, and will use every day, with your crypto earnings.. It is like a nuclear weapon against nagging..

This is also a surefire way to BTFO all videogamers with "How much money do you make doing that? What valuable education did you gain playing that game?" or anyone that thinks they can make wisecracks about how much time you spend on your laptop..

True story..

Probably not much. It's not like I run a business here or something, other than earning a penny from the occasional bounty.

I am mainly checking this place for new ANNS and to kill time when procrastinating in my job.. I guess if this place closed for whatever reason it would be fast be replaced by something else so not much of a difference from my side

LOL, she even does not care about bitcoin. 

You didn't open her very own account here as a Christmas present? You could conduct your marriage on here. We could all make helpful contributions to your relationship.



Its future does intrigue me. Does it become less relevant the bigger BTC gets and eventually fades away? Hardly anyone is a member of an Android forum but hundreds of millions use it for several hours a day. Or will its size increase the desire for people to gather to discuss it?

If the forum vanishes someday, my wife will feel happy for sure. Because I will spend less time on the internet, on the forum, and on the statistical analyses. She does not understand what I do so from her perspective, she can not understand why I can keep doing such boring things from weeks to weeks.

I rarely watch films (only some of my favorites, once or twice a week but when seasons end, I am free from film watching), then most of my time on the Internet is on the forum, crypto exchanges and data analyses.

I used to be a heavy addict to films & series (especially British made series). That is where a large portion of my free time used to be invested in. I figure I’d go back to that for a while. I used to consume all my film & series goodies within the week. Now I seem to have a backlog I can never catch-up with: 200 GB of some 226 files ready to watch, plus all the streaming listed and still not viewed … I may even get to (re-)recognize some faces at home …

Lol, have you taken something by mistake? His transgressive posts are a reference for the forum, it would be a disaster if they were finished.

Among other things, this forum is a source of knowledge, creates bonds of friendship and directly or indirectly also creates wealth, it would be a difficult problem to solve, I prefer not to think about it.

Happy New Year !!!

In fact, all living things and things created from them will one day disappear. So I think that will also happen on the bitcointalk.org, bitcoin and altcoin. But I hope that the bitcointalk.org forum can last at least until I can still move my fingers to write and my eyes can still see.

The bitcointalk.org forum has provided a number of benefits for most users. Even when we realize that forums value our work and pay more than we can get in real work. That is why we are worried about its sustainability.

Concerns about the sustainability of the forum may not only be felt by the OP, but quite a lot of other users are starting to feel the forum wont be there forever. But my mind is interested to think that, as long as the forum is still there and still provide benefits to its users, until then we can still use it to do business, earn money, develop knowledge and many other things that are useful for ourselves and the community.

I dont think that all users of the bitcointalk.org forum are people who have no real work outside the forum or are unemployed. Even if the forum has to disappear, then they can return to pursue their work in real life.

I dont know what will happen to bitcoin and the bitcointalk.org forum in 1-10 or 20 years, but now is the right time to determine what will be done by users who have no real work when the forum must be destroyed. Until then, we will have another job.

I've heard he lives in a hollowed out mountain where he shuffles around in Jesus robes lovingly tending to his servers rather like the bloke in Silent Running. One or two asteroids smacking into it and it might be good night.

It would be very interesting to see what the uptake would be for a mirror under a different domain. I wonder if people would be wary or a vast percentage would pile in without a second thought, or perhaps there'd be so many of them people wouldn't know which one to align themselves with.

I'd join the one Theymos set up to replace it.

I get it, it's the holidays, horror stories and science fiction are de rigueur, but please, please. I'm scared now.

it would be very disappointing for sure and obviously my weekly income that i am currently making would cease. but the biggest disappointed would be the lack of alternative specially for technical discussions. i guess stackexchange is still a good alternative for that but i never liked their strict rules which is why i have so far only asked one question there and answered around 200. there is also reddit which is only for trolling and meme posting not a place for technical discussions.

Everything, this forum has basically become my everyday life that's why I'm trying to leverage the amount of time I spend on the forum to start some business since I spend almost all the free time i got on the forum. Before now, most of those times were used to make threads, and replies but recently, i have seen myself reading through more and more threads irrespective of me been interested in contributing to the discussion at hand or not.

Apart from the knowledge, Joy and satisfaction I get from engaging with other forum users and discussion on the forum, my signature privilege pays me $300 monthly while my real life job barely pays me ~$100 monthly (that's including my allowance and bonuses) just to show you how helpful the forum has been to me. I don't see the forum vanishing anything soon but if it does, life continues as I'll always find a way to assist myself with other legitimate side hustle especially through monetizing my passions.

Bankrupcy. How would I feed my son and wife without my Chips’ pennies sir?

I don't see this forum as taking up my free time.. It just has it's place in my hierarchy of things to do for entertainment mostly..

Hundreds of BTC..

Well despair for sure.

Apart of that I would like others get some of my "free" time back. Then again today I chose to use this free time to roam the forum.

It would make me lose a precious source of knowledge, and this community. I really hope this is not happening anytime soon.

I am wondering tho, what kind of measures are in place so that this can't ever happen.

I will not discuss what will happen if this forum disappear rather what will happen to me if this forum continue to exist and grow. Bitcointalk is the first site I open when I launch my browser, as this is the place where I learn so many things regarding crypto. The only this platform lag is mobile app version.

Somehow it became my habit to come here every mornng and evening and to read what is new.
I also have some good friends here,  in our local Croatian section of the forum and like to talk with them.
We even met offline.
Also,  this forum is good source of useful info and also I can collect some btc through btc signature campaigns.
So,  I guess I will be sad if this forum vanish somehow.