I can add one data point. we recently launched this app - http://burningmanapp.co/ - it converts your steps into bitcoins. the usage is really off the charts >1000 users logging around million steps everyday. >50% have provided their Bitcoin address.
Last I checked Bitcoin is servicing a little under a million bucks a day in retail transactions, Swanson always conveniently leaves out the dark market - which is the target demographic for bitcoin, and puts into question the honesty of his write-ups.
"Hodl" indeed. I'm more or less in the demographic mentioned in the article. I buy some tech gear from time to time on newegg but then just replenish on one of the exchanges. Other than that I rarely buy things with btc. A donation here and there.
Are folks considering putting coins to work in a tumbler? Experience?
Because it's the most blurry, fuzzy, poorly framed and honestly ugly photo of the great wall of china you could ever pick for the huge prominent header image of your blog. It has to do with programming because most programmers have a terrible eye for design, although in this case I stand corrected because apparently he's not a programmer.
And also, I said my original comment somewhat facetiously, it's not like it matters at all anyway, it was just a funny observation.
Blame Bootstrap - they called the big top third of the screen image a "hero" block from start of their docs. It was the first I had heard of it, but it made enough sense that it stuck.
One assumes the history goes back further - one suspects a comic strip somewhere. But I don't know
I don't think that's true. Did you try googling that? It wouldn't have taken very long.
I can't find a satisfactory answer. Wikipedia doesn't say. [1] says it comes from the print industry, but I can't find any indication that that's true (all the search results seem to be related to online, "hero image print industry" doesn't turn up anything useful). "Hero image etymology" isn't helpful either.
Yes, I did try googling that. I am not sure why you missed the result from the etymology search, perhaps you should have used "" for strict matching of the term.
Anyway, "In theater and film, a hero prop (sometimes just "hero") is a prop that is intended to be seen close up so it's a lot more detailed than others. That's the oldest definition I know.". The source is in the reply to the sibling comment.
Thanks! As you guessed, I missed it because lack of "" in search string. I've learned to assume Google is pretty much ignoring quotes nowadays. Apparently they're not.
