...and so marks the end of a 12-year journey...we hope.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/10/majority-of-americans-arent-confident-in-the-safety-and-reliability-of-cryptocurrency/

Today, I noticed an interesting thing about some hot posts in r/bitcoin. Some of the top posts are written by relatively old users, but their activity seems to be limited to just these posts and comments on them. I wonder whether the hype has awakened some dormant audience, or if these users are kind of hype men trying to warm up subscribers and increase activity in subreddit?

Some examples from top week:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1bd1ioq/i_found_this_walletdat_file_on_an_old_laptop/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1b9bg20/i_paid_8000_for_halo/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1bbwd6h/when_i_try_to_work/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1b9znk3/hodl/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1b9r5ov/lucky_screenshot/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1bc2ehj/hodling_since_2019/

I think that in the bwockchain community, our principle that differentiates us from similar crypto-skeptical communities like Buttcoin should be not to mock people who were fooled into Ponzi schemes, but rather to criticize the organizers and beneficiaries of the Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency Ponzi schemes.