Live data from Hacker News

Poll: How many Bitcoins do you own?

news.ycombinator.com

11–20 of 128 posts

Re: Poll: How many Bitcoins do you own?

#11

Shouldn’t option 2 be ‘0.00000001-10’ instead of ‘0-10’? As it is stated now, someone with no BTC should vote for option 1 as well as option 2. Actually, the other options overlap too. I suggest using ‘11-20’, ‘21-50’, ‘51-200’, ‘201-1,000’, and ‘1,001-10,000’. EDIT: I adjusted option 2 to start with less than 1 but more than zero. Thanks for the correction. I also agree with other commenters that the ‘1-10’ range is…

Then what do people with .001 do? I like it how it is but to be correct it would be .00000001 - 10 (I think that's the right number of decimal places.)

Re: Poll: How many Bitcoins do you own?

#12
I think 0-10 is a too large a range. There's a big difference between having $10 worth (~0.07 BTC) and $1500 worth (~10 BTC). The first is what I have, which is basically play money. The latter is a more significant investment.

Re: Poll: How many Bitcoins do you own?

#13

Shouldn’t option 2 be ‘0.00000001-10’ instead of ‘0-10’? As it is stated now, someone with no BTC should vote for option 1 as well as option 2. Actually, the other options overlap too. I suggest using ‘11-20’, ‘21-50’, ‘51-200’, ‘201-1,000’, and ‘1,001-10,000’. EDIT: I adjusted option 2 to start with less than 1 but more than zero. Thanks for the correction. I also agree with other commenters that the ‘1-10’ range is…

What if someone owns 0.2?

Ranges should be taken to mean A < x <= Y it seems.

Re: Poll: How many Bitcoins do you own?

#15
post #7
post #4

The last time my interest was piqued I found it so difficult to buy them in the UK (looked like the best way was to wire some money so someone in France…) that I gave up.

I had exactly the same experience. Kicking myself now as they were $8 each at the time...

Retrospective trading is a good way to chew yourself up. It's meaningless and pointless so don't dwell on it! Look at it from todays perspective.

Re: Poll: How many Bitcoins do you own?

#16
post #2

Gave it a go back when namecheap added bitcoin payment just to try it out. I have 2 BTC left in a wallet backup, but I don't have the client installed anymore since I'm not keen on devoting 10 GB disk space to a copy of the blockchain. Back then they were super easy to get (at least in Japan - feed some cash into an ATM, enter mt gox's account #, enter your username as your depositor name)

Be aware that you don't need the blockchain to use Bitcoin really.

MultiBit or Electrum let you use the network securely without it, and have a minimal disk and memory footprint (megabytes, if that).

Re: Poll: How many Bitcoins do you own?

#18

I think 0-10 is a too large a range. There's a big difference between having $10 worth (~0.07 BTC) and $1500 worth (~10 BTC). The first is what I have, which is basically play money. The latter is a more significant investment.

So this really depends on how you define the "play money".

Re: Poll: How many Bitcoins do you own?

#19

I think 0-10 is a too large a range. There's a big difference between having $10 worth (~0.07 BTC) and $1500 worth (~10 BTC). The first is what I have, which is basically play money. The latter is a more significant investment.

Exactly this. I have some nonzero amount when I mined for 1 afternoon. Technically I don't have zero but I shouldnt be in the same category as people with a thousand dollars worth.

With that said.... I said I have zero in the poll.

Re: Poll: How many Bitcoins do you own?

#20
post #2

Gave it a go back when namecheap added bitcoin payment just to try it out. I have 2 BTC left in a wallet backup, but I don't have the client installed anymore since I'm not keen on devoting 10 GB disk space to a copy of the blockchain. Back then they were super easy to get (at least in Japan - feed some cash into an ATM, enter mt gox's account #, enter your username as your depositor name)

Wow, up until your comment I had no idea that BitcoinQT was taking up over 18Gb on my hard disk.
Post reply on HN