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I hoped there would be a voting option in this section, but apparently not to us mere mortal.


During my time in crypto, here and other places, I've seen bitcointalk.org refered to as both BTT and BCT. A tendency I think I noticed is that veterans use BTT more often than newbie.

What is the proper abbreviation for bitcointalk?

Please motivate and, if possible offer data to support your claim.


Thank you!

Edit: found that damn poll-button after two weeks... ;)

Why don't you create poll? But I have to say I use BTT all the time even in Chinese crypto community. When you mention BTT there, every one will know what it stand for!

There is a voting option. You can either add a poll to an existing thread by clicking the "add poll" link on the bottom right hand corner of the thread or create a new thread with a poll by clicking the "post new poll" option rather than the "new topic" option when first creating a thread.


I've always gone with "BCT" (BitCoinTalk) myself but like you, I've seen it being referred to "BTT" (BiTcoinTalk?) many times too. A Google search for 'site:bitcointalk.org BCT' returns 11,600 results whereas 'site:bitcointalk.org BTT' returns only 7,780 so "BCT" seems to be the slightly more popular of the two.

Theymos owns the forums so whatever he uses is probably the closest thing to get an "official" answer that you can get. Satoshi would have been even better since he created the forums but after going through Satoshi's old posts, I couldn't find anything.

Anyway, I doubt either of them has any strong opinions about it and they probably just use whatever they feel more comfortable with.

A search for the terms "BCT" and "BTT" on the forums from January 2009 to the end of 2011 doesn't show up anything interesting. Neither does the official Bitcointalk Twitter account or theymos' posts on Reddit.

EDIT: OK, so this is the closest thing I could find to an "official" endorsement by theymos. Here, he suggests that those who place ads on his forum should append their URL with "something like "?bct"" to track clicks:

I don't remember the last time I use the abbreviation, I always mention the full name but if I have to I will use BCT (BitCoinTalk) I don't know why some people would use BTT, I don't think it makes any sense imho.

I always use BCT, but I think we need a custom emoticon to represent the forums just to make things easier.  Are there any ascii artists that care to make one?

i prefer BCT, because it remind me more of BTC which is the abbreviation of bitcoin, they are anagram of each other, it sounds more right to me

Isn't it obvious? BitCoinTalk.

Long time ago i used BTT, but it's little confused, so now i prefer to BCT, it's more clear.


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I'd say BCT is the best. BTT makes it look like something bike related... Why is this relevant? ;D

i personally dont like the abbreviation, for me the best way to call it is his full name, bitcointalk.

but if i have to choose one of them, i will go fot BCT instead of BTT or BTC, BTC made me confuse with our BTC abbreviation ;)

I personally like BTT better, it is somehow easier to pronounce or something. Though I don't mind BCT either ;)

Well, I already saw some people calling this onyl BT(BitcoinTalk), which is the best IMO.
And the section is wrong, this should be on meta.

I always use BTCT. Why? Because it's BitcoinTalk, BTC + T == BTCT.

I prefer to use BCT. but some people also use BTCT. edit: look up  :P

actually why don't we just use Bitalk instead? it's simpler and easier to pronounce. the only site with that name is in russian

I prefer to use BCT or BTCT over that BTT. Why does it matter anyway? Not a big deal i think

+1. IMHO, OP proposed abbreviation are very confusing. However, is not forum owner - aka theymos (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=35) - task to say what bitcointalk.org abbreviation should be used?

I use BTCT as well for the same reason.

You can use whatever you want...

I almost always call this site "the forum", "the Bitcoin Forum", or "bitcointalk.org" (spelled out completely). I very rarely call it just "BitcoinTalk," so any abbreviation of that name isn't natural to me. I don't see where people get BTT from, though.

I've always used BCT to refer to these forums.

I call it the forums or bitcointalk...never thought any of the abbreviations looked right.

i always say the ticker of bitcointalk is "BCT"  :D
BitCoinTalk

may be some people in here have some ticker for it and different
BCT

the correct thing is BCT, just break down bitcointalk into syllables and use the first letter from each syllable, BitCooinTalk

I normally see it abbreviated as "BCT" although I have seen it abbreviated as both.  Personally I prefer "BCT" myself. 

I would call this 'BCT' because Bitcoin was abbreviated by satoshi as 'BC' since 2010:
Some very old members still keep their signature's bitcoin address as BC (like laszlo, the bitcoin pizza guy, link to profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=143)
Also I take the first letter of 'talk', i.e. 'T'
So the complete abbreviation is 'BCT'.

I must have been blind, drunk, unconscious, dead or having some other problem, but I really looked for a poll option, and I made polls before, but couldn't find one.

This creates another question: As I recall it, the forum were on different places before it found its home at bitcointalk.org, one of these places being "bitcoin.org".

A) Is this correct?
B) If yes, why on the friggin' earth was "talk" added to the URL and not "forum"? We do not "talk" here, we write on a forum.


Conspirationist are welcome to comment.

A. Nope. The old forum was at http://bitcoin.sourceforge.net/boards/index.php (reference: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5.msg28#msg28, a post by satoshi) (though it can't be reached now)
B. This is maybe the action of writing on a forum is equivalent to talk in Japanese (satoshi claimed to be a Japanese, so he may mixup the meaning of talk and writing on the forum). Or maybe the domain 'bitcointalk.org' is 1 letter shorter than 'bitcoinforum. org' :)

Ok, my recall was that it was sourceforge > bitcoin.org > bitcointalk.org. But no...?


Also about the question of "talk", "board" or "forum", the second link in your post reads "Topic: Welcome to the new Bitcoin forum!"

He was aware of that he created a forum but called it something else. At the time, were any other forums called "talk" instead of forum or board?

Perhaps not the biggest mysteries in the history of Bitcoin or Satoshi, but still...  ;D

"Forum", not "talk".

By the way, the Google truth:

site:bitcointalk.org BCT
About 11,700 results


site:bitcointalk.org BTT
About 7,760 results

You are correct. There was briefly a small forum on SourceForge, but it was deleted after this forum was created at bitcoin.org/smf. Then it was moved to forum.bitcoin.org, then bitcointalk.org. Satoshi never typed "bitcointalk.org" -- if that appears anywhere in his posts, that's due to an automatic substitution of new links for old ones. The name was invented by Jeff Garzik. Ending the names of forums in "talk" is somewhat traditional.

I say BCT, for the syllables. Bit Coin Talk.
I've seen people using BTCT. Bitcoin original abbreviation, Talk.
I've never seen BTT used, except in the context of Bump To Top (whatever topic it's a reply to).

i like to call it BCT (BitCoin Talk). make more sense for me  :P

easy, BTT = Back To Topic BCT = BitCoinTalk - I use BCT

does that make sense? :)

I really don't get how people can abbreviate BitcoinTalk to BCT. It's Bitcoin + Talk so, logically, it would be BTC (Bitcoin's abbreviation) + T, which equals BTCT.

BTCT is too close to BTCST for me https://www.sec.gov/News/PressRelease/Detail/PressRelease/1370539730583

I prefer and have used BCT as it is the most obvious abbreviation or just type out the entire forum name to make sure there is no confusion.

I always see our members are using BCT and it looks also nice to represent BC as Bitcoin and T as a talk so, BTC as a Bitcoin Talk. However you can edit and create a poll to see how many of our members prefer BTT or BTC, that would be really fun, looking forward to your poll :)

I always used BCT, didnt read it somewhere but it was the abbreviation that made the most sense. I dont even know how someone could come up with BTT? Doesnt make much sense to me to abbreviate it that way. I think abbreviations are created another way than BTT.

Though its good too know what BTT means when i should read it somewhere.

Same here. If I'm in some super hurry to post something I'll slightly abbreviate it to BTCtalk, but that's about as far as I go.

BTT actually makes no sense whatsoever. /thread

After two weeks or something I found a button enabling polls... ;) So I added one.

Not that it will add so much, but please cast your vote.

Thanks!

To much of my surprise, "BTT" is beating the living hell out of "BCT" with over 70 percent for the votes.

With under ten total votes ;)

No.
https://i.imgur.com/rSJZrxm.png

I don't see the logic behind BTT, BCT seems more reasonable.
This is also a good abbreviation.

Besides, a poll won't give you accurate results at all. I've been telling this to people for quite some time now. There are too many shills and manipulators because of which it is hard to get accurate results.

BTT have no meaning. This is BitcoinTalk. You either have to use BTCT or BCT.

Why is my abbreviation not in the poll? BTCT is the most logical one.

It doesn't matter whether you use BTT or BCT,we dont have any word limits.We are free to type as much as we can.
Only 20% of the user's on this forum type Bitcoins as BTC.
Use either of them it doesn't matter!

The public has spoken (voted!): According to the poll, the correct abbreviation is "BCT". I will, however, always call it bc or BTT  :P

Are you aware of that it is fully possible to have fun with nonsense...?  ;) We are not voting for presidency. Even the nature of language, which always develops, makes it impossible be vote get the correct answer. 

I'll stick with BTCT, the most logical of all (which you forgot to add to your poll, even though I mentioned it).

Why would the first "T" be the most logical to include in your suggestion? Didn't Satochi call it only bc, but you wanna stick a "T" in there.

Where do all these T-fetishist come from? ;D

A combination of http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Onamonapia for the BT (say BT as if it was a word instead of each letter)
and C to shorten coin. Only for textual use, because saying B-T-C in person is stupid when you can use two syllables (bit-coin).

Also in this forum if you use you get this: BTC

BTC for Bitcoin and the extra T for Talk.

Oh like that, yeah, I don't know. All I know is that it's the most common abbreviation.

I prefer BCT
BitCoinTalk

I've always used BCT since BitCoinTalk always seemed to make a little bit more sense to more. I don't really understand how it would be BiTcoinTalk

I am personally fond of using BTCT to refer to this forum because bitcoin is abbreviated as btc and the last letter T is self-explanatory. If you may, please, add BTCT as an option there because I think it still make some sense in regards to the abbreviation of the forum's name.

I'd say BCT but I don't often use abbreviations. But BCT makes more sense that BTT because it's (BitCoinTalk). Anyway it's only my opinion.

But it doesnt make much sense to add a T because the abbreviation reads a bit like the word itself. An abbreviation should shorten a word. So adding signs because it makes the abbreviation sound like the word is somewhat contradicting.

Abbreviations mostly are only formed by the beginning letters of the part words in a word Bit-Coin-Talk. Only if the abbreviation is somewhat hard to say or when it should be brandable, then abbreviations for organisations and so on might have added letters that stand somewhere in the word in between.

Only saying... :P