You're right about that, it's an entirely different community now because of the money that is there to be made, most of the guys who were here for the tech are probably relaxing on a beach somewhere by now. You can go to certain sections of the forum and find lots of good threads to discuss things, serious/technical discussion would be a good start.

I think that very few people would have the patience required to wait from bitcoin prices rising from $1 to $20000 over the last few years. Some people would have sold at $100, $500, $1000 and so on. Very limited people could have imagined that it will reach $20000 one day.

Yep but they didn't need to be in from beginning to end to still be on the beaches somewhere. If they invested only around 10k then that would mean that each 100x we would have a whole new bunch of millionaires and then they could sell to the next lot of hopefuls. That means we've already had 3+ lots of millionaires using that logic.

Well there are some of us that except making some side cash care about Bitcoin. I use it everyday in many different websites that accepts it and not only bitcoin or crypto related websites, now many traffic exchanges and ptc sites are accepting it. Also Steam used to accept it until fees got enormously big and it was forced to remove it. I have credit card and many privileges from my bank but I like to use bitcoin as I love paying anonymously and without control from a central authority. Sometimes my bank do not allow some of my transactions as they think that is not me doing them while it is me. Paying with bitcoin is a good way to get back some freedom in the financial world and it is thanks to blockchain technology that I can achieve this.

I also keep majority of my "bitcoin fortune" in my hardware wallet as I also believe it can be the investment which turn my life upside down in a certain moment during not a so distant future. For me bitcoin is "a financial and technological revolution of our century".

This is to be expected. Back in 2010, most of people here don't even think that BTC will make them rich in the future. They are just here to check the improvement of a decentralized coin that will provide them financial freedom one way or another. It's much like a hobby for them and something to do in their own accord at their own free time.

Right now, most of the people that got into BTCtalk aim to have the best possible profit out of BTC and other coins. They don't care about the technology anymore. They are just here to post and get paid for it. They buy BTC to trade it to other coins with the hope that it would triple or multiply by hundredfold in the coming days. The objective is very different and so the people too.

I agree that a lot of the original posters probably cashed out long ago. I've met some who missed the chance to be millionaires by selling way too early. Many underestimated how far bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies would grow.

For me it is so interesting and fun to look back at the old,old posts when the first people were posting about the block chain.
i very much enjoy reading the old posts.

quite true because of the aggressive attack on crypto market all over the world which i hope will stop for ever
we cannot be thinking much about what's gonna happen next as for my self i still hope the crypto will dominate the world and be a better replacement for banks which i hate, but unfortunately the people who love corruption around the world won't let that happen very easily  because blockchain technology is pretty hard to corrupt but banks... no need to talk about that because we all know

yes, of course different, today I see many members chasing quantity, so they forget the quality of the post, but if you want more serious, then you better go to thread mining.

there you will find many professional members who contribute a lot to the world of crypto.

Well it was worth a fraction of a cent to a few cents back then, and there wasn't a huge market for it. People were excited about the technology and I don't think many were able to foresee the massive explosion in value. Most people who were in it then were also more technologically inclined and had in-depth knowledge of how things worked under the hood.

That being said, I'd think it's natural for the talk of technology to dilute as it reaches more and more people who don't have in-depth knowledge of it. I mean sure, there are lots of talk about prices and such, but there's also talk about Lightning and the future beyond, etc. so it's not all bad. It sucks that there are people only in it for the money, but what can you do? Bitcoin thrives on inclusion after all.