I have no idea why there has been a tremendous influx of pompous, loud-mouthed newbies, but can I assume that Bitcointalk's new-registration activity itself is a good metric for how Bitcoin adoption is doing?
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sig campaigns pay a 3rd world country's lower salary...
in the west, usually a teen's dream job is "youtuber", in other parts of the world it might be BCT merit farmer ...but I doubt that that has anything to do with
BTC adoption