Bitcoin Forum

This is bitcointalk, I don't think any alternative should even be on this forum personally.

This many altcoins is blocking development of bitcoin, no need to support it.

They are fine like that.
Also alt coins should develop their own communities if they want to get rid of the clone status.
If they are unable to do that and still rely on bitcointalk to lure people into their schemes , then they don't deserve anything better than this.

This is bitcointalk, I don't think any alternative should even be on this forum personally.

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Altcoin developers can make their own talk forums.

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It's pretty much unusable now. Should split it into sub-forums for each currency.

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Altcoin developers can make their own talk forums.

If it were me, I'd go for:

Alternate Cryptocurrencies
/ New Coin Launches
/ Giveaways
/ Other Discussion

Since those seem to be the main varieties of topic and it would put them all in the same place. 

If a thread I replied to 4 hours ago is already on page 6, then it's an incredibly busy forum and could do with being spread out a bit.

I can certainly understand why people feel that way, but like it or not, this place is a victim of it's own success.  Of all the places on the internet where people talk about cryptocurrency, this place is #1.

So you have to ask yourself what's best for the future of cryptocurrencies.  Obviously you feel it's best if scam coins and novelty coins aren't posted about here, since it tarnishes the reputation of Bitcoin.  But I'd argue that it's better they're discussed here, where veterans can tell the newbs that it's a scam or a waste of time.  If you pack the newbs off to some dark and dirty corner of the net to talk about the next insert-meme-here-coin, they're going to get ripped off and assume that all cryptos are a con.  I'd say that will lead to more people being given a bad impression and would lead to less adoption of Bitcoin overall.

Keep the discussion here, where people can keep watch and prevent scams.  Even if you feel Bitcoin doesn't "need" alts to succeed, that fact is that they're here and it's better you don't try to sweep them under the carpet and pretend they don't exist, otherwise their reputation could drag yours down with it.

Read our url

Such a persuasive and comprehensively compelling counterpoint.   ::)

Everyone has seen the url and funnily enough there's still a bajillion threads talking about alts.  I could leave an equally asinine reply and say "read the thread title".  I don't think every alt should have it's own subforum, that would indeed be a nightmare.  Separating launch/giveaways/general threads would just be much easier to navigate then everything all piled in one place.

It's not going to happen.  The alt-coin section exists so there's a place to throw discussion about alt-coins, because otherwise it'd be spread out all over the board.

Fail! It happend.

well, they just divided thread by "spam type".
It's still the same mess and actually I expected a much stronger line from bitcointalk

Well I didn't expect this to happen. Seems like more work for the mods though.

What happened?

well, they just divided thread by "spam type".
It's still the same mess and actually I expected a much stronger line from bitcointalk

Well I didn't expect this to happen. Seems like more work for the mods though.

Good luck SaltySpitoon...

Ugh, and so it begins...

That it is, its still the crammed messy organized chaos that we have grown to love, however you should now be able to more or less what sort of spam you are looking for, be it mining help, looking for a new coin, or looking to buy/sell stuff. All of our expectations were zero, so the subforums are blowing minds.


Very slightly, its divided just enough to soothe my OCD fueled homicidal rage that built inside of me everytime I saw someone try to sell something, or announce a new interesting service and their listing disappeared under piles of "BUY BUY BUY THIS NEW SCAMCOIN OR YOU WILL BE SORRY"


Hehe, thanks.


Batman Begins?

well, they just divided thread by "spam type".
It's still the same mess and actually I expected a much stronger line from bitcointalk

Three new alt-coin subforums added = my "show unread posts" is instantly flooded with new scamcoin announce threads. These add nothing to the community, and should be banished. Lock the entire sections, and replace it all with a single moderator sticky to other forums these people set up on their own, and make altcoin talk here against the board policies.

We should just delete every altcoin thread. They don't belong here, people using them are taking huge risks.

So, people buying bitcoins today at $800 each are NOT taking huge risks?

Quantum computing could render every crypto-coin (including bitcoin) obsolete tomorrow.  You take a risk every time you dabble in ANY crypto coin.

Add those boards to your ignore boards list if you don't want to see them in your unread posts. I actually manually adjusted settings for people who ignored Alt Cryptocurrencies so they would ignore the new subsections. There were only three such people...

Add those boards to your ignore boards list if you don't want to see them in your unread posts. I actually manually adjusted settings for people who ignored Alt Cryptocurrencies so they would ignore the new subsections. There were only three such people...

One of the members ignoring alt currency is me, and I had to go into "ignore boards" and check the ignore boxes for the new forums - they were not checked. The same thing happens when a new local sub is created.