For a newbie, your first post is really impressive. Unlike most people who come to Bitcointalk, you already had solid knowledge about Bitcoin before coming here, while most people who come to Bitcointalk is complete newbie.
Man, you're telling me! When I joined the forum back in 2015, I knew next to nothing about what exactly bitcoin is or what set it apart from previous iterations of digital cash not sanctioned by the government (like
Flooz, which I've mentioned a few times over the years). And of course I knew nothing about mining, the P2P decentralized nature of crypto, and a lot of other important attributes--I was so ignorant, you might be wondering how I found the forum, why I registered, and why in hell did I stick around so long.
I'm not going to go into all of that, but this was the first post I could find on my profile after un-ignoring a lot of sections. I think I'd posted before April of 2015, so maybe someone can set me straight on that. Here it is:
The cessation of coin production likely won't happen in any of our lifetimes. Contrary to what you wrote, it isn't too expensive to mint coins (in general). In the US, this is true for nickels and pennies but not the other denominations. And as someone else said, precious metals will still be highly valued and so people will still collect coins, even if they were to stop being minted.
Look at the newspaper industry. Look at stamp collecting. The world is a tough nut and manages to keep going despite technological advancement.
Nothing spectacular, wasn't written while I was in a signature campaign, and certainly wasn't as troll-ey as a lot of my early posts were. I was a bitcoin skeptic back then but was a little familiar with the forum, as I'd lurked for months before joining. I knew how bad the discussion was in general but didn't quite know why that was (sig campaigns), and I used to ridicule some idiots pretty harshly. Maybe my earliest posts got deleted!