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The Bitcoin Forum is a message board where people interested in the technical details and the development of Bitcoin software can talk to each other. The forum also has places for people who are interested in bitcoin [[:Category:Mining|mining]], in trading with bitcoin, and in the economics of Bitcoin.
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{{infobox company|name=Bitcoin Forum
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|trading_name=BitcoinTalk
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|industry=Forum
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|founder=[[Satoshi Nakamoto]]
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|owner=[[Martti Malmi]], [[theymos]]
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|foundation=November 22, 2009
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|members=464,589<ref>[http://bitcointalk.org/ BitcoinTalk]</ref>
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|ni_btc={{decrease}} -1,500
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|ni_usd={{decrease}} -$430 thousand
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|ni_year=2014
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|equity_btc={{decrease}} 5,568
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|equity_usd={{decrease}} $1.60 million
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|equity_year=2014
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|employees=
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|website=[http://bitcointalk.org/ bitcointalk.org]
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}}'''BitcoinTalk''' is a message board where people interested in the technical details and the development of Bitcoin software can talk to each other. The forum also has places for people who are interested in bitcoin [[:Category:Mining|mining]], in trading with bitcoin, and in the economics of Bitcoin.
  
The forum is owned by [[Sirius]]. It is administrated by [[:User:Theymos|theymos]], Sirius, and [[:User:Gavinandresen|Gavin]].
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The domain name is owned by [[Sirius]]. The forum is administrated by [[:User:Theymos|theymos]].
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
  
Before the creation of the current Bitcoin Forum, Satoshi used a SourceForge forum. When Sirius provided hosting, the forum was moved to bitcoin.org/smf. Satoshi made several custom modifications to the forum software and theme.
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Before the creation of the current BitcoinTalk Forum, Satoshi used a SourceForge forum, which is lost. When Sirius provided hosting, the forum was moved to bitcoin.org/smf. Satoshi made several custom modifications to the forum software and theme.
  
The forum was at some point moved to forum.bitcoin.org. The bitcoin.org domain name was also transferred from Satoshi to Sirius.
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Satoshi's first non-test post on the forum was:
 
 
In July, 2011 the forum was moved to bitcointalk.org in order to make it explicitly unofficial. The "forum" link on the bitcoin.org homepage now simply returns the Google search results for the search terms "bitcoin forums".
 
 
 
Satoshi's first non-test post on the forum:
 
  
 
<blockquote><p>I left the admin account set to the original SMF theme so if I somehow completely wedge the custom theme I can still get in to fix it.</p>
 
<blockquote><p>I left the admin account set to the original SMF theme so if I somehow completely wedge the custom theme I can still get in to fix it.</p>
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<p>The Announcements forum is currently moderator access only.</p></blockquote>
 
<p>The Announcements forum is currently moderator access only.</p></blockquote>
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The forum was at some point moved to forum.bitcoin.org. The bitcoin.org domain name was also transferred from Satoshi to Sirius.
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In July, 2011 the forum was moved to bitcointalk.org in order to make it explicitly unofficial. The "forum" link on the bitcoin.org homepage was made to simply return the Google search results for the search terms "bitcoin forums".  This was followed by Bitcoin Community members, very much in bitcoin's spirit of decentralisation, creating a number of alternative forums offering different moderatorial policies and using different software platforms. None of these alternative forums have yet reached the size of Bitcoin Talk.
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Later, the "forum" link was simply removed, further distancing Bitcoin Talk from the official bitcoin.org. As of April 21, 2012, Bitcoin Talk remains the first search result on Google thanks to its high page rank.
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On July 22, 2012, Bitcoin Talk reached its one millionth post.
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==See Also==
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* [[Bitcoin Wiki:Community portal]]
  
 
==External links==
 
==External links==
  
* [http://bitcointalk.org/ Bitcoin Forum]
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* [http://bitcointalk.org/ Bitcoin Talk]
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[[Category:Forums]]
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==References==
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<references/>

Revision as of 13:44, 28 May 2015

Bitcoin Forum
Trading nameBitcoinTalk
IndustryForum
FoundedNovember 22, 2009
Founder(s)Satoshi Nakamoto
Key peopleMartti Malmi, theymos
Members464,589[1]
Websitebitcointalk.org
BitcoinTalk is a message board where people interested in the technical details and the development of Bitcoin software can talk to each other. The forum also has places for people who are interested in bitcoin mining, in trading with bitcoin, and in the economics of Bitcoin.

The domain name is owned by Sirius. The forum is administrated by theymos.

History

Before the creation of the current BitcoinTalk Forum, Satoshi used a SourceForge forum, which is lost. When Sirius provided hosting, the forum was moved to bitcoin.org/smf. Satoshi made several custom modifications to the forum software and theme.

Satoshi's first non-test post on the forum was:

I left the admin account set to the original SMF theme so if I somehow completely wedge the custom theme I can still get in to fix it.

I've got a neat little 12x12 coin image to replace those pip stars with. Should look nice. Also some nice button images to try.

The registration page has "hide your e-mail address" unchecked by default. I must fix that in php before we can open up.

The Announcements forum is currently moderator access only.

The forum was at some point moved to forum.bitcoin.org. The bitcoin.org domain name was also transferred from Satoshi to Sirius.

In July, 2011 the forum was moved to bitcointalk.org in order to make it explicitly unofficial. The "forum" link on the bitcoin.org homepage was made to simply return the Google search results for the search terms "bitcoin forums". This was followed by Bitcoin Community members, very much in bitcoin's spirit of decentralisation, creating a number of alternative forums offering different moderatorial policies and using different software platforms. None of these alternative forums have yet reached the size of Bitcoin Talk.

Later, the "forum" link was simply removed, further distancing Bitcoin Talk from the official bitcoin.org. As of April 21, 2012, Bitcoin Talk remains the first search result on Google thanks to its high page rank.

On July 22, 2012, Bitcoin Talk reached its one millionth post.

See Also

External links

References