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September 26, 2014, 07:01:39 AM

Bitcointalk.org posts by topic, updated

Below is a breakdown of the 239 recently most active threads in this forum, captured a few hours ago.  For comparison, I copied the similar statistics for June/21 and July/25:

2014-06-21    ! 2014-07-25    ! 2014-09-25    !
--------------+---------------+---------------+
Posts !     % ! Posts !     % ! Posts !     % ! Category                       
------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------------------------------
    8 |   6.7 |    14 |  12.6 |    28 |  11.7 | Off-topic                     
    4 |   3.3 |     7 |   6.3 |    15 |   6.3 | Gambling                       
   18 |  15.0 |    12 |  10.8 |    58 |  24.3 | Bitcoin mining                 
   37 |  30.8 |    22 |  19.8 |    23 |   9.6 | Bitcoin non-mining             
   53 |  44.2 |    56 |  50.5 |   115 |  48.1 | Altcoins (including mining)   
------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+--------------------------------
  120 | 100.0 |   111 | 100.0 |   239 | 100.0 | TOTAL                         


Explanation

To create the last table, I copied the first 6 pages of the list of most recent topics posted to, spanning about 1 hour, and manually classified the threads in the above categories. (This is not quite a sample of the recent posts, since each thread was counted only once even if it had several posts within that interval.  So the most active threads are under-represented.)

Comments

As in the previous samples, about half of the activity seems to be related to altcoins.  Activity about bitcoin (mining and non-mining) was 46%, 31% , and 34% in the three samples; the difference was taken over by gambling and other threads unrelated to cryptocoins. 

Among the posts about bitcoin proper, there seems to be an increasing fraction about mining.

This time, 9 of the 58 posts about bitcoin (15.5%) were in Chinese.  (This proportion may vary along the day; the sample was taken at about 02:00--03:00 UTC, which is 10:00--11:00 am in China.)



You will need to mention the limitation in your research. For instance, many of the posts are created from troll accounts. Most of them do not offer meaningful comments. Look no further than this thread.