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Sorry for one of those threads but just felt like posting some things I personally love about this forum.

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Knowledgeable people - when Google doesn't answer my question, someone from Bitcointalk does

Freedom of speech - you can use those words freely

Devs in community: Telegram bots filled the need for functions which felt lacking in forum

Bounties - please don't hate me — it's nice extra income. When pandemic started it was my saving grace.

Discussions: This forum is filled with all kind of species, I love it.

History: many historical moments are etched here (pizza guy, satoshi, Hal Finney, ethereum/vitalik, etc)

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Yea, that's it. What about you?

I love bitcointalk forum too. There are smart and kind people

https://www.ddpurse.com/upload/data/A_71pjflpx2tk4dxfabi37lc35jpjx9j.jpg

Except these users from my blacklist (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5215709)

Yeah freedom of speech, but maybe at a later time this may be reviewed a tad bit. Because freedom of speech on the forum has given trolls, scammers, scam promoters and users with many other vices the liberty to continue with their act. it may not be a reason to love Bitcointalk if it continues.

Why you don't create bitcoinsvtalk self?

Because nowadays is 2022. Telegram groups more preferable

But i love bitcointalk because it's like a museum, a hall of crypto fame

If someone pays you $300 a month for your posts, then you can really consider yourself lucky. For a few minutes a day and a couple of one-line posts, there is no reason not to like this forum ;)


It is more important for me to be up to date with what is happening around Bitcoin, and I consider this forum to be perhaps the best source of information, despite the fact that there is a lot of spam and shitposters. It is also a great privilege to earn something and promote something you believe in, but that should never be the primary goal.

Who, coincidentally, form the overwhelming majority of kind and smart people.

In line with what you mentioned as one of the good things on the forum "Freedom of speech - you can use those words freely". Besides, it was just my observation, with which your campaign manager and some other members of the forum certainly do not agree. Far from thinking that one-line posts are always bad/spam, some write an entire essay and say nothing useful.

This forum is the one and only forum I've encounter and i will never leave this forum. Cause this forum is my secondary school, this community gives me knowledge that I did not get from school. A knowledge that I can share to those people who interested and  worthy tobe given. A knowledge that can not be steal from the other people.
I love this forum too cause I made friends here from different country.
All I need to know about crypto is here.

^ This. The Bitcointalk forum is a great source of information, and it has a lot of people from different aspects of the Bitcoin community who are willing to share their knowledge with newcomers. In terms of finding information, this is the best place I know of, and I am also looking for any place that I can contribute to to help spread the word. I find this also an effective way to broadcast useful information that may not be covered elsewhere.

The downside of the Bitcointalk forum is that there are a lot of scams and scammers who try to profit from newcomers. The people are not truly trustworthy so I try to remain cautious. I think most people are aware of this and realize that any member of the community who is promoting a scam or scam-like services is not a trustworthy person, and I really hope that people become more aware of this and that the community will grow more mature and wise as time passes.

I do agree that earnings from promoting something on the forum should be an incidental benefit. This is a community and not a business. So, it is important for people to maintain their own credibility and integrity.

I've been on this forum for quite a few years (joined in 2014, but went through two large periods of inactivity) and to be honest, it has been a wonderful experience. Despite the fact that it's a great source of income, anyone who denies that is simply lying, it's also an exceptional website to gain knowledge and most importantly, ask for assistance, which will be provided selflessly, no strings attached and without risking being scammed.

I've seen exceptional people here, who were always willing to assist me without any hesitation, compared to Discord or Telegram groups for instance, which are filled with scammers willing to take advantage of you.

I used to spend almost all the day in the forum especially in WO thread but these days I am not much enthusiastic to spend my time here. I have more things to do besides there are not much to talk about anymore. All around spamming and scamming. But to be honest this place is far better then you so called google and you are right if you need bitcoin related Q/A then this is the place where you will get a definite answer. You will face few trolls but that's okay I think.

Don't make google look like some form of machine that answers every question on it's own ;D, without the so called knowledgeable people, there will be no google, people have to answer the question(s) on their websites, blogs, etc before Google picks those answers up and show to us by the help of SEO.

It might interest you guys to know that back in 2016, I asked a question about bitcoin on Google, and of course, Google came up with a lot of answers coming from different sources/websites, and bitcointalk happened to be one of those websites, I clicked the answer which lead me to bitcointalk, that was how I discovered this great forum, after going around the forum, i signed up and that was how I became a member till date.
I personally love this forum for several reasons, and op has mentioned alot of it already.

Not until your post was reported, due of hate speech, short post considered as spam, trolling, and being off topic :D. Well, bitcointalk is more censored than you could imagine though.

Everyone loves bounties, even mods need to be compensated as well.

In serious, services discussions, yes. In bitcoin discussion and the rest, no, may be slightly if the thread is new, but once it reaches 5 pages or so it becomes the nest of spammers.

Not to mention there is an automatically archives in every posts here with the help of other members, so as long those archive websites are up, history will be saved.

This forum is so great with answering questions, any kind of questions. Be it newbie question and technical questions. I appreciate the people in the technical side for good work they are doing.
How did you gather all those names? I cannot image the forum without these people. I will really love to know how you encountered all of these people and put them in the black side

bitcointalk was born that where the social media, facebook and twitter at that time is very popular and was preferable, but bitcointalk isn't popular than Facebook, can still exist until now, your reference is not accurate when comparing it with the telegram. it is the same as what happened in your coin which is not preferable to another altcoin.

It'd be a huge irony if that post of yours get removed. ;D

Some really seem to have glass hearts.

You're wrong here:

• "Hate speech" is allowed, but it shouldn't just be name calling.
• Post length doesn't matter to determine if it's spam.

Nice summarize. For me I love bitcointalk cause aside from giving me extra financial help, it also become a hub for knowledge in cryptocurrency. Im almost 5years member of this community, and I never get tired to learn things Im sure Im not yet familiar about.

All of you mentioned Im seen them here and glad that Ive experienced all of that. Also the part of historical, Ive learned them on some who did some quiz on it and that stuff are cool to know from bitcoin pizza to etc.

There's only one "someone" who pays that amount as a maximum per week as far ask I know, and if you're in that campaign and are spitting out low-value, one-liners....I'm not sure how you would have gotten accepted into it in the first place.  But pay rate aside, I've never had a problem with campaigns and bounties primarily, and I think their existence enhances the forum like nothing else.  It's the members who either abuse the privilege with alt accounts or who stubbornly refuse to do anything above the bare minimum to get paid.  That's why bitcointalk has had so many quality problems directly related to campaigns and bounties.

By the way Lucius, I'm sure you know exactly what I'm talking about, and the above wasn't directed at you specifically.

That should tell you what kind of person Bitcoin SV is.  And at least one member on his extensive list is dead for fuck's sake.  Give it up, BSV.

Indeed, and although that post exists someone went through my profile and reported other bunch, 8 got removed, first one was from November. Commendable effort, I must say  :P

"But", it is still the same, so it will be deleted soon as someone reports it, it also depends on the mod who handled it.

Yes, i know. Not all but most, as op is generalizing it as you can use those words freely which is probably not.

I am struggling to learn every technical part of bitcoin, the reading never ends, and sometimes I blame myself for not coming early. There are plenty of bitcoin proposals that have been implemented and they are just plenty to accommodate on this my small head but thanks to Bitcointalk, it becomes easier to digest.
Virtually, friends are a great way to enjoy place and I must say that I have come across plenty of people from different backgrounds that are highly knowledgeable and blessed with skills, I am hoping that one day I would get to a point on Bitcointalk where my value will be expressed from my knowledge.

Were all of them from the meme thread?

Nah, different.

He was talking about $300 a month, not per week. It is clear that the campaign in which the OP participates pays him that amount:


Hence the comment, I think sarcastic from Lucius.

Are you kiding these trust abusers is not a kind people

These freaks should be excluded from DT. You cannot image what are these trust abusers. At the same time, on command, they extinguish all truth-tellers. It's like there are controlled by one person

Who do you mean? Bruno? I dont see any account of Bruno in my blacklist

What a polemicist

I mean, yeah, who's kind if they aren't BSV holders, right?

Wondering why you have him in your regular list instead of ignore LOL. Do you see he is trying to poke everyone from his hate list all the time?


Almost in all posts he is adding this at the end which should consider as spam advertising too.

After all it's a community and you will not find two different person have the same characteristics.

No, this is a warning list of trust-abusers for newbies. Constantly updated list

There are no included links. It is not specified which forum these users are from.

No person that will find he or herself here that will not like the community, i love the community because is educative, when you peruse to Many people initial comment or respond when they come in new in bitcointalk and compare to the present response currently, you will notice their is changes in every elements here. So i classify the community as knowledge transmitter.base on what actually is your challenges or areas of concentration via cryptocurrencies related problems.

Why I love Bitcointalk?
I’ve been active on a lot of forums in the past but I haven't stayed anywhere as long as here.
Of course, the main reason is bitcoin, which has really changed my life, and I don't just mean the financial side.
This forum is also very informative, and much can be learned from the opinions of others.
What is also very important to me is my local community here.
We are a very good team, we have known each other for a long time, we support each other and I have met some local members in person.

Yes, that's what I meant when I wrote my first post on this topic, I didn't want to sound mean, but a little sarcastic as you noticed, and the OP understood it that way as well. Still, it's hard to imagine that any bounty campaign has about the same criteria when it comes to posting quality, as is the case with CM. But if you offer excellent conditions, then you expect excellent results.

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I understand what you mean, but as you can see I was thinking of something else - it's not all about money and ranks, this community should be much more than that. It is good to see that people are still showing a certain amount of enthusiasm when it comes to the forum, because older members are less and less active, and some have left the forum altogether. By the end of the decade, I wonder how many of us will stay here...

Let's be honest here, I love Bitcointalk for learning & earning. Yes, at the beginning I joined here for learning Purpose I was aware of bounty but didn't join. And to be honest I wasn't aware of what is signature campaign lol. However, day by day I learned a lot of things from the forum which has helped me to earn from here. Not only from signature but also from other marketing sources. So both things lead me to love this forum. Still need to learn a lot of things.

Same here pal, it's like an online home with so many rooms that we might become exhausted but the exploration will still continue! So many things to learn from and new updates and news about technology and other stuffs, diversity and co-ordination, getting to talk to other people, asking and giving help, and surely earning side feels good too  ;D it's all bundled up here so yeah, it's like an automatic love :D

Google only points you to sources where people answered the questions you asked. I have always said the best part of this forum is the amazing problem-solving abilities that some members have.   

I am not sure how you can find bounties that are worth your time in today's age. If it's the one in your signature, I am familiar with it. It's probably the only altcoin bounty worth being in.

Bitcointalk is still my main point of reference when it comes to news about Bitcoin. If it isn't posted somewhere in the Bitcoin section, it isn't worthwhile to talk about. I don't like the Twitter and Telegram moon boys. Many of them don't have the ability to discuss anything like normal human beings.

It remains the discussions for me that creates gainful engagement from members creating a feel of involvement with an important forum that supports what i love (bitcoins). I like the variety of opinions and perspectives. Also being here puts one ahead one step further into the future IMO as most forums you know are centered on the general/regular first, then may occasionally feature discussions on Bitcoin and crypto generally, but Bitcointalk on the other hand is dedicated to bitcoins and crypto first before any other discussion, this is good for me.

I actually searched to see if I was on that BLACKLIST, I would love to be included
with all those "trolls, scammers & trust abusers"

Its funny how OgNasty has merited that post obviously because he isnt on the
trolls, scammers & trust abusers Blacklist.

You've got some catching up to do, I made the list four times.   ;D

Going to take it as a sign that I'm definitely doing something right.  It's nice to have your work acknowledged.   :D

Since you like it so much, I will remind you of this blacklist (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5215709) more often.

It's a platform with forums capable of providing solution to any Bitcoin related issues or questions.

Many people love bitcointalk website with different perspectives or perceptions, actually the community is made of educative and understanding, no one that pay attentions to the community that has not acquire a preferential knowledge of cryptocurrencies generally, i come in conclusion that the community create avenue's of expansion of cryptocurrency and especially bitcoin knowledge as i portray before, so no one with a terrific sight, ambition and concentration will not grab a profitable information that will elevate it's Bitcoin ambition if it come closer to bitcointalk forum.. this forum is a hospital of bitcoin.

why did you make a blacklist, this forum is "open", everyone is free to have an opinion as long as what they say is good, that's what I love about this forum.

I think The definition of love come from something you really like doing and can't start  a day without think about it. As The loyal member of Bitcointalk, I can feel why you created this post. You feel like you get so much from this platform and want to show your gratitude and express how you truly feel about a lace which is doing great silently for so many peoples including a Jr member like me  :D

Well, I don't think it's anything to be ashamed off. It's the perk this forum has over other fora. Everyone here knows that and almost all are beneficiaries of the stipends this forum allows users through enrollment in campaigns. It's a legitimate way of earning. Yes, to be honest it has been a saving grace to many here.

That's my story too in 2017. Curiosity led me to Google and I was eventually sent down here by google. Since then, it has been one learning and investment process to the other.

Just take a look at the Users Feedback and check it out by yourself !
He is just a Troll and even cant make a nice List , because this list have each name and Username 3 times in it thats why it looks so big.
Thats why i have him on my Ignore List , but yeah you are right everybody is free to have his opinion.
Helping new Users and get help from others when its possible thats why i love the Forum.

In bitcointalk forum I can freely discuss some issue with experts. I can learn something new every day .
Well it's not shame to learning something new even if it comes from a newbies. Every days I get visit bitcointalk in Bitcoin Discussion for Bitcoin talks. Trading discussion for my daily trading helps. Meta - To know about this forum.
Also I visit Beginner's Help so that I can help some newbies with what I know .

I love bounty sector's also , I can earn something while discover the forum. Isn't it good way? 
That's all my personal opinion

You can earn something, that's true. But what that something is, that's open for discussion. Most of the time, it will amount to nothing. That something won't get listed or you wont be able to sell it because there wont be a market for it. No one wants to buy it because it doesn't solve anything. You can't spend it or use it as payment because no one accepts it.

This isn't the place do discuss it, but I would be interested in seeing a thread where bounty hunters can show what profits they have made with a "good token" in the last 6-12 months, for example. Then everyone can judge for themselves if that's something worth pursuing in today's time and age.   

I love Bitcointalk, I spend almost 5 hours on Bitcointalk every day, reading and discussing is what I love at bitcointalk, technology and innovation are present in this forum in various topics in the sub forum, maybe in a long description it will be difficult for us to explain the love  we are on the Bitcointalk forum, but in essence without the Bitcointalk forum it will be difficult to keep up with increasingly sophisticated technological developments in this modern era.  members of this forum are present all over the world and with one goal in mind, namely preserving the technology that was born from the genius of a satoshi, maybe it would be wonderful if satoshi and vitalik buterin were back online in the bitcointalk forum

I would like to see that too. Bounty hunters, I assume, participate in dozens of campaigns at the same time, and as shown in numerous cases, with a multitude of alt accounts to collect as many worthless tokens as possible in the hope that at least some of them will be worth something in the end. It is a numbers game - the more tokens you get, the more chances you have to earn something. On the other hand, bounty organizers and creators of dubious crypto projects and scams get almost free exposure on social media and high profits with the resulting hype. Like in all other crowded markets, people will be the losers and the scammers the real winners.

I guess it won't get as well as you're thinking. I think your response chance will be 10% cause most of Bounty hunter's just know how to work on it. Don't know anything besides it. Actually I was talking about signature campaign mate. Social campaign are worthless nowadays.

  I agree with you , cheating has increased in huge number ,Bounty Manager's aslo now looking for quantity. But not all of Bounty Manager's tolerate this.

Welcome to the meta after the last time you were here in 2016. I was just curious about you especially when you used the same bitcoin address as Jeremycoin before when applying for one of the campaigns. Did this account change hands or are you really a Jeremycoin alternative account? ^{[just curious]}

https://i.ibb.co/hmT7CmS/screenshoot.jpg

Proof: https://ninjastic.space/addresses?address=15rRYQBUGzsBbZcyGAFgpR7wRXacEKptH9

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Both of you ever applied chipmixer campaigns before even though your application posts have been deleted (https://ninjastic.space/post/14592988).

https://i.ibb.co/cDbSmF9/screenshoot.jpg

I love bitcointalk more than anything ever based on the information gotten from here. Bitcointalk is like a second home for me where I do get the necessary ideas of information to grow with the happenings in different areas of life example politics, crypto, marketing, sports and technology.
There's always a joy overwhelmed by reading, relating and engaging in open discussions here.

Regardless, it would be interesting to see the results of such research. Who knows, it might even help some members (bounty hunters) to see the futility of theirs actions.


This is like dominos. I guess bounty managers also get paid in worthless tokens, so it's not surprising the low level of their engagement. Of course, I do not support this kind of behavior.

I think it depends on the manager and their reputation. Some of them probably request BTC or a widely used alt, maybe even stablecoins. But it surely isn't easy to maintain a solid reputation managing altcoin campaigns, considering how many of them go sideways. When that happens, the community and/or participants will hold the manager responsible as if he is part of the team. We have an ex bounty manager in our local forum in btcltcdigger. He could surely shed some more light on your question regarding the standard payment methods. 

Hhampuz, CryptopreneurBrainboss, yahoo62278, irfan_pak10, or julerz12 might also be able to explain this problem because so far I think they are bounty managers with good reputations. Maybe they are also paid with tokens/coins of the promoted project but maybe they are also paid with bitcoins or other altcoins up front if the project owner has sufficient funds for it.

As managers they will be questioned and held accountable when the project doesn't pay participants, but when the manager has a warning in the bounty thread to the participants then they can tell the participant that he or she is not part of the team in charge of payments. Sometimes the manager isn't paid to do his work either.

this forum is a place to get treasure...

the treasure I mean 'knowledge as well as money'. I like to have discussions, especially with constructive discussions, having a good discussion while being paid is an amazing experience. I didn't find any forum like this out there, really Bitcoin is someone's life changer.

The current crypto bounty hype is not what it used to be, before this merit system worked. Of course there is a significant drop in the bounty hunter hype. Campaigns on social media are greatly reduced. There are also only a few bounty managers who are actively providing new projects and new projects are, of course, selected for managers with good ratings. More and more new projects end up being scams. Bounty hunters who only assume on the number of bounty participations are certainly not old bounty hunters, they just come in and start trying to gather what they can do.

I love bitcointalk because here you can always find the answer to your question

And also for interesting events and a friendly atmosphere

I would also say that I love Bitcointalk as it is a place or a platform where I learn new things/knowledge, share new/existing information to newbies or older forum users who are not aware of the information. It is also where we can use our skills to earn extra income to add on your main income. If I didn't know about Bitcointalk then I wouldn't have own some bitcoins and all that I know about cryptocurrency and many cryptocurrency related topics.

Yeah I can think of at least five or six on the list that are very good people.

No doubt, Its the best place for sharing your reviews with community. Its a place for learning knowledge and share your ideas with the world biggest community. There are lot of opportunities available on this platform for making money. such as bounties, promotions. etc. Its also a best place for marketing. Because there are millions of peoples that are actively using this platform. But the main focus in that its a place for sharing ideas and knowledge with each other.

There are millions of created accounts: 3,4M and counting, but many are likely bot created or pointless to begin with (going over some old data I have (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5069738.0), there were 1,78M brand new accounts out of 2,44M existing accounts at the time). Taking as reference the number of accounts that have at least logged-in over the past three months, the number goes down to 83.551 accounts (https://bpip.org), meaning that the overall number of accounts that are really active on the forum is bound to be even less really.

Because bitcointalk is a live museum of legendary persons: satoshi, Vitalik Buterin, Gavin Andresen, laszlo etc

I guess, you already said it here



There are many reasons to love bitcointalk. For me this is the place which introduced me to cryptocurrencies. Before this forum, I did not know about them at all. At first I was confused by the huge flow of information, but later I began to understand and navigate. I am sure that the structure of the forum and the organization of threads helped me a lot in this training. Therefore, I would say that in the first place in my appreciating the forum is its structure and system. Without such a convenient and intuitive organization, much of the useful information shared by qualified members of the community would be lost and passed by me.

I also love bitcointalk for the fact that in addition to the main topics about cryptocurrencies, here you can talk about important social and political issues. For me, as a Ukrainian, this aspect is extremely important and valuable at the moment. After all, the forum is attended by people from around the world, there are citizens who have influence in their countries. The opportunity to convey information about the current events in Ukraine due to the war started by Russia, as well as the reaction and support of the forum community, is very valuable and necessary for me.

Maybe you should review that list, as I see many duplicates. I see you have 5 batches, but I am unsure what they mean. But, for example, I see myself in batch 3 and also in batch 5. Foxpup appears in batches 1, 2, 3 and 5. And so on. If you remove the duplicates you'll have a more compact list.

Besides, please remove Timelord2067 from the batch were I appear, as I do not want to share same space with the old perv / lunatic. Put him in any other batch. Thank you.

Okay. Blacklist is under construction now

I am agree about Timelord. I've never seen an uglier face in my life than Timelord's face

you can't ask a stupid person for an intelligent answer or reason
that's the reason why you don't explain this choice (stupid)
after all, stupid people also have their own usefulness, they remind us that evolution works (darwin)

Who cares where is your name putting by a troll. GazetaBitcoin was being sarcastic if I read him wrong otherwise. However I am wondering why is this troll is not in most of the user's ignore list. What's the point of wasting time for this Troll?

yes, but in fact I was referring to BitcoinSV, not to Gazeta
I had well understood the sarcasm and the underlying irony

I, on the other hand, cannot be ironic with trolls / scammers
inertia allows them to do what they want, and that's not how it works… at least for me

by now I have taken BitcoinSV to heart, so I will always be there to remind him that I exist

I am more than please to see that my humor is well understood. You are both right about my intentions.


That amused me laugh so much :)


Excepting the fact that I was sarcastic in my previous post, I was also trying to show how ridiculous is that list, that he keeps mentioning here and there lately. First of all, what is a black list? It is not, for sure, his distrust list. Also for sure, it is not his ignore list. That list, with a name supposed to make impression, only impresses by the fact that it is ridiculous and it has absolutely no meaning -- for any forum user but even for its author as well.

As a plus, besides the fact that the list is absolutely useless, it also looks like it was made by an amateur, as it does not even contain unique entities. One user appears 5 times, another one appears twice and so on. I think that not even the author has any idea about what it means, but he still keeps mentioning the list in various places, like the readers should be aware, in a way, of its existence :)

It's his personal list (of course an armature work). It's a list of users who one or twice told something against Bitcoin Fake Version. It's the list of the people who called Faketoshi is a Faketoshi. Using this list he wants to poke this users to an controversial post he makes. That's the only goal he has with this list. The list makes his troll job easier.

Readers should be aware by this by the way,
https://i.ibb.co/B3jyzBY/59540718.png

Shame on you, guys.
Better get out of your prehistoric bitcoin, BTC is not green (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5386677.0)
BTW our coin has the lowest transaction costs

P.S: I love bitcointalk. Excepting nutildah, suchmoon & timelord, because they are ultimate trust abusers

I love bitcointalk too but I have a question.

Please tell me from the bottom of your heart, do you really believe that Craig is Satoshi? I mean for real, after all his failed attempts to prove it and after so many clues that gather together clearly shows you the big picture?

OR maybe you have heavily invested in BSV and locked your money with a hope that if one day by some kind of miracle CSW can pump BSV so you can recover your loss or make profit, is this your case?

I don't see any sane person to support CSW claims.

I think it's like the flat earth people: of course they know the earth is a cube (https://insh.world/science/what-if-the-earth-was-cube-shaped/) round, and of course they know everybody else knows it too. But they love the fact that there's always someone willing to debate them, even though no amount of sane arguments can convince them.

A fork of Bitcoin claiming to be the original Bitcoin. I am not sure why you said Bitcoin is prehistoric as of now Bitcoin SV is on the verge of being erased from crypto books. The problem is not Bitcoin SV or Bitcoin Cash but the person named Craig Wright. Impersonating a group or an individual and then trying to convince the world without any proof will result in such a consequence which was $100 million in damages and guilty of intellectual property theft.

I am not trying to downgrade or prove anything around this topic but I cannot tolerate anyone who states Bitcoin as prehistoric.

1. There is a legislative right
2. CSW claims that he is Satoshi
3. I do not see any other Satoshi who would dispute this statement by law

BSV has in my investment portfolio. But that's not the main reason.

I have all reason to consider that BTC is an evil making people greedy miners pollutting environment

Calvinists were also initially viewed with suspicion. Later their faith proved very progressive

Despite of the fact that this forum hates spamming and trolling, but i still see a lot are doing that. But not to deny that this forum is still educative and creates facts transmission from some knowledgeable and reliable sources. The reason why i still love to stay here in bitcointalk forum. And especially for newbies, this forum will be very helpful as it teaches a lot of things that are crypto related. But still always do your part, DYOR as much as you can.

I really understand your point and the users who use this forum should have the main purpose as a place of education or learning related to bitcoin or cryptocurrency.

But it is not impossible that there are many users who live only for money without wanting to make any contribution to the forum. I've been through this period before but I started looking for other ways out and motivation to stay put and increase my contribution. I'm starting to enjoy it now and it's been getting a lot of support from other contributors.

It seems to me that over time it is becoming increasingly difficult to stay on the forum just for the money without making any contribution. Maybe some users don`t really want to do it, but due to rules that change and the behavior of other participants that is transformed by these changes, they are obliged to make some contributions. Otherwise, they can`t satisfy the desire to make money. Merit system really helps with that.

However, there are still loopholes for such members. For example, I often come across accounts that have either very little or no merit at all earned over the life of this system. But they continue to take part in signature campaigns because they have reached a certain level before the new rules were introduced. They live normally even as a full member, not to mention those who have been seniors and heros before merits were born.

I don't think the forum's quality has gotten worse over time, I just think the more veteran users have forgotten what it was like many years ago, but because of the constant issues have grown tired of it eventually. Signature campaigns have been around forever, however the quality imposed by the managers (at least the main sections) has become a lot better than it was five years ago. I'd like to think that moderation has gotten better, with more moderators in key sections, and I think right now while there's a lot of spam on the forum, we've got a community that's dedicated to reporting it, which is largely a thankless task.

To me, it's quite clear that this community is far different to most others out there. The community generally wants to better itself, however there's a certain ceiling to that. We are never going to completely eradicate spam, there's going to be instances over the years where the moderators, campaign managers, and general forum user disagrees. I like to think that while theymos does get a lot of criticism for taking a long time to implement things, when he does its usually well thought out, and betters the forum to no end. For example, the merit system was revolutionary, and has prevented many of the farmed accounts getting to where they wanted, and the introduction of the bumping system in the altcoin section, has pretty much revolutionised the amount of spam users actually see.

We still have problems sure, and we'll continue to have those problems. I tend to believe we're in a better position than we was a few years ago, based on those changes alone. I think generally removing the newbie jail was a good idea, even if I was conflicted with the idea before.

The altcoin campaigns have always been lower quality. You'll rarely see users participating in Bitcoin signature campaigns without actually being a decent poster. The altcoins section is a different story, mainly because they're paying you next to nothing, because they pay you with their worthless tokens, which can't be sold regardless. So, naturally only lower quality posters are interested in joining.

However, if their posting quality is that bad you can report them, and they'll likely get handled.

The are no point to argue with a troll and respond his nonsense. These days he is now very busy to engage with people and let them get into his fake coin. Bitcoin Fake Version would do better if this would have a authentic name instead of what they have now. They could make it CS coin or whatever the fuck they wanted but they had to use the brand Bitcoin has to leverage the industry. 

Introducing merit is playing a vital role than it was before. Before we had many account farmers, continued posting and got ranked up. I would not say there are no account farmers now but the numbers are multiple times lesser than before. Once they find out it's not possible to rank up high then they are bound to give up. However there are some people who have always found a way to abuse the merit receiving tactics though.

The main troll here is BitcoinGirl.Club

P.S: I love bitcointalk excepting signature donkey BitcoinGirl.Club (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=662330)

They won't take such donkey like you even there

Envy silently, bum.

Yes, and honestly i doubt any member of our community is hoping for that cause it is somewhat impossible, we could only possibly reduce it to a bare minimum somewhere along the line, i mean, if there is a 'multitude' of good/decent users and a couple of spam users who will prolly get most of their posts reported and maybe deleted every now and then, thus that will be just fine.
Honestly signature campaign managers shoulder a lot of responsibility in the forum, some users might not notice it but they do, quite a lot of users are on a signature campaign, and many of these managers make it a criteria for the user to be a decent poster, i am pretty sure this has encouraged a lot of users to work on themselves and bolster their knowledge, so on one hand they get to learn a lot about Bitcoin, post quality stuff and then earn some 'pocket money' via signature campaigns; so campaign managers have a lot to play in the quality of posts on the forum.

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Always happy to talk with bitcointalk forum!

I do not always completely agree that signature campaigns are a source of evil, spam and incompetence on the forum. Yes, it is impossible not to notice that many users stay on the forum just for the sake of this income. But I, as a user of not very high rank yet, think that this is more typical of high rank members who before the merits of the system have received a high level and can now use it without improvement. For example, this is my first experience in the signature campaign, and when I got acquainted with the criteria, I realized that one can't get there just like that, one has to meet quite high standards. Therefore, my acceptance was a very high assessment for me, on a par with every earned merit. I think this question depends on how you feel about your work and how honestly you can evaluate your efforts. And I'm grateful to the campaign managers who set the conditions for members to improve.

The thing is that people tend to look at the past through rose-tinted glasses, often focusing on good memories and blocking the negative ones and same thing happens on this forum. I haven't been here long enough that I can talk about "good ol' times" but I've been on some other forums for ~20 years and I am definitely guilty of that when I look at the past. Then again, it makes sense to remember good stuff from the past better as we were younger, and on top of that its a kind of defense mechanism since dwelling on bad stuff ain't healthy at all.


I kinda disagree with that. Situation was maybe like that ~2 years ago (I remember very good members fighting to get into lowest paid Bitcoin signature campaigns) due low amount of sig campaigns but situation now is completely different and it's a sellers market. There are way more spots in Bitcoin signature campaigns than there are decent members interested, resulting in managers lowering the bar as they have fill up the campaign.

I don't know how the situation was 2 years ago but maybe what you said about the current situation is true. There are places in certain campaigns filled with low-quality posters where I believe they don't have a contribution worthy of being considered a quality poster.

I don't think it's bad for marketing, but probably not very good for forums so this warning should be taken as a precaution by moderators.

I become smart here and the knowledge that I earned from this forum changed my life big time.

Now, I'm already a businessman and focus on trading, with what I'm consistently doing, I was able to achieve financial success that I never even imagine when I was still an employee. So, I am very proud to say that I owe my success from this forum, me not knowing bitcointalk, I will still be living in my low paycheck and wrapped with never-ending debts.

I'm not entirely sure when the good ol' days started, and ended or if they ever existed at all. One thing for sure is, we've lost a lot of good users throughout the years. However, I don't necessarily believe that's because the forum got worse, but like I suggested before older users are more prone to getting annoyed at issues which have been constant, and because we don't tend to dwell on the past (I mean these years, especially political issues people seem to have memories like goldfish, but that's another matter :D) we do tend to forget about the bad, and only remember the good. That's what nostalgia does, ever go watch a movie or play a game you loved as a child? Then, when you come to play it you realise how bloody bad it is. This is usually because of passion, which creates the rose tinted glasses outlook you mentioned. I don't doubt there's a lot of passion around this forum, it's quite obvious with the amount of time users have dedicated over the years, whether that's posting, reporting, or handling trust issues, we've got a lot of users that are dedicated here.

I haven't always liked certain rules as an example, however with time I think I've come to the realisation they're implemented the way they are, because if you didn't it would open up a can of worms. For example, not moderating scams, in my early years I just couldn't get my head around it, now I can understand why. Also, I think over the years I've become a little more aware of censorship issues, and how Bitcointalk is largely a safe haven from it compared to other forums.

I think the biggest offender recently of low quality signature campaign posters was recently halted, and there was a whole debacle over in Reputation over users not getting paid. That by far had the most spammers out of the Bitcoin paying campaigns. Since then, I generally think we're in a good place, if we aren't maybe us moderators need to be made aware of that by reporting them, as long as they're breaking forum rules of course, but generally signature spammers are.

There's always probably going to be examples, however that's why I used the word rarely. I don't think the Bitcoin paying signature campaigns, currently have widespread issues. However, if we start talking about bounties, and altcoin paying signature campaigns, that's when the problems really start to fire up. I do think something needs to be done for the latter, I just don't know what would be the best thing to implement for that, so as we stand I don't really have any suggestions.

Yes, I don't think those ranked up users prior to the merit system have any benefit because none of the bitcoin signature campaigns will accept you if you do not possess a good amount of merits in the last 120 days. Those not so good ranked up members have to work more harder in bounties and at the end of the day may get worthless tokens. Also the good thing about bitcoin signature campaigns is that almost all of them are being run by reputed members and they accept only quality posters.

i love being on bitcointalk because i get a lot of insight from this forum.

and if we look carefully are you aware? if the people on bitcointalk are great people with insights about their cryptocurrency that are superior to those who are not on the bitcointalk forum. because maybe crypto was born from here.

critique me if I'm wrong.

I am not sure we can say crypto was born from here, it is very hyperbolized. However, there is no doubt that the forum is developing in parallel with the crypto market and it is a very important addition to it. I do not think that it is possible to claim the superiority of people on the forum in relation to others because of possible insides. I think insides can be obtained in other ways. However, the forum, in my opinion, is good in this regard because it not only provides some irrespective information, but clarifies the causes and consequences of certain facts.

Indeed this forum has been my best outlet to gain more knowledge not just cryptocurrency itself, but even the important events that are currently happening. This is the reason why i always find myself scrolling down the pages in the forum that creates a day-to-day learning on my part. And to think that most of the members here are more transparent and very honest on their opinions and ideas, this makes me more eager to stay here for long. And as they always say that learning is more possible if you do it with peers, so this forum is indeed a living proof to it.

I find this website as a source of different learning and you can read huge span of perspectives from any kind of topics. We can't deny the fact that we're still irritated by trolls that gives negative aura. Bitcointalk gives us a very huge opportunity for us to gain money at the same time we can learn something from it. It's a win-win situation for me and I've experience a great experience discovering this platform, I have expressed my self a lot of times and it's a great diary to put some thought on it.

I am happy to see this. I have debated this with someone here in the forum, when discussing what a shit post and a spam actually is. Spamming is concerned mainly with the essence of a particular message to the receiver not the sender. A post can be well constructed and quality of about 500 characters, but if the purpose does not fit, it is a spam. For instance, in this topic, someone drops addresses for Ukraine crypto fund and wrote about the importance of supporting Ukraine at this critical time. No matter how relevant the post might be, in this thread it could be regarded as a spam. Spamming is synonymous to off topic, while spaming might be targeting large number of people, off topic can be a particular post.

If you can say something shortly, making the post longer makes it a shitpost. Making it longer is actually worse, because it takes the reader more time to realize he should ignore the user.
My stance:

Example (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2536592.msg26036671#msg26036671) of a short post.

This is a good thing about this forum, you can share what you learn and you can also learn what others have to share. More on a give and take learning scenario. But what made me amaze about this forum is that it does not tolerate fake news and fuds. Mostly are based on facts and experiences. And when we talk about experiences, its the best part that is more conveying and more realistic.

All of the foregoing is a recommendation to make the Bitcointalk forum a wonderful home and school for everyone; it is worth more to me than Google search engines because I may not be able to get answers to some problems on Google, and this forum helps me out.
I also make extra money on the forum through Bounties and Signature campaigns, which has been a lifesaver for me because it's a reliable source of income.

They are a good source of extra income, but i really wouldn't call it a reliable source of income, do not get me wrong, i know some campaigns pay quite well and the value could really be high for some users based on their country of residence, but that doesn't eliminate the 'uncertainty' around campaigns/bounties such as: quite a lot of bounties do not pay their participants, and for the ones who pay, they give out worthless stuff, as for signature campaigns, they can end quite abruptly, with no notice at all, now imagine being on the receiving end of any of these scenarios if you rely solely on one of this source of income.

I think this forum definitely provides an opportunity for additional earnings, which is very helpful, because some companies pay very well (now it's about bitcoin signature campaigns). I see this when I look at the offers in Services. However, as a member, it is still difficult to call this income a lifesaver, because for our position, earnings are not very high. It motivates me to try and strive to increase my rank, then the extra earnings will really be more significant.

The bitcointalk as a forum is a place I will any one trading in digital assets to get involved. There's a wide range of discussion here with people from different space of life.

Like I can't express the level of knowledge I have gained from the threads of users in the forum to the comments that follows.

It didn't just end there, it has awaken my awareness to the dangers of plagiarism and it's negative effect to intellectual works. In addition providing for all users a wide range of freedom of speech in a guided manner that shouldn't warrant abuse.

Many a few shy away from admitting the financial support the forum is profering to all users alike irrespective of ranks, but I must say, the forum has really raised a financial base for most us here.

And that's one thing I wouldn't shy away from appreciating. It's quite a privilege!

Is good for us because it make us knew more things  about peoples

More things about people ?? I think you will get more knowledge on crypto and bitcoin from this forum rather than information about people.

For me, there is no forum in the world as bitcointalk where you will get so depth information and knowledge about cryptocurrencies. This forum provides all information from basic to advance and we have this all in one forum for us.  :)

I myself learned a lot from everyone in this forum.
and I myself am interested in increasing my ranking. and what is unique in this forum is that if I want to be appreciated and rank up, of course I have to make something that other people can respect, which means I have to improve the quality of my writing and broaden my knowledge.

so subconsciously in this forum like in a learning class. if you want to move up the class then we have to complete the exam and add insight so that the quality of ourselves deserves to rise in rank.
and after rising in rank it is also like having a diploma from a school where the higher our school is, the more we can apply for jobs with expensive salaries. and here it is the same. The higher your membership level, the more expensive your job will be when applying for jobs, for example in bounties and so on.

an interesting forum because it adds insight and can also make money.

I know bitcointalk since many years ago but never registered. Now I feel like it is very important to join this community and see what they do especially because I am a software engineer and blockchain enthusiast.

Thank you for this.

Where else would you see such posts!?  :P

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5138619.0

it seems you are right and I also admit that, although there are indeed many who are not involved in bitcointalk, there are also those who have knowledge about crypto, but maybe not as many as here.
this is a forum that really helps add insight into crypto as well as being able to get rewards that are indeed available for those who really need it.
It must be admitted that the members here are increasing all the time with the number of people who really want to know about crypto and all that stuff, hopefully this forum will be useful for its members.

Well, that's what I hope and the members in this group are expected to provide good quality posts and good post quality can only be obtained by improving the quality and insight of science. I myself, after joining this forum, read more often and look for any information for the sake of adding insight. well the additional points can make money too from participating in bounties or campaigns on this forum. Even though I joined this forum at the beginning, I didn't know that in this forum there were types of work such as signature campaigns and bounties. but here i see different signatures on each account and i was curious to find out about it so i know its a paid signature campaign. Even though I didn't really focus on it too much because when I first joined this forum, I really wanted to find out about bitcoin and wanted to participate in developing it while adding insight.

Like to think bitcointalk is one of those 'milestone' which people come across when they start in crypto, whether they stay or go is different story.

The internet is wide, people can have knowledge from anywhere but I started from bitcointalk, of course this is a milestone I know more crypto here than out there.

Yeah, that's a different story, even they know a lot about crypto, not from this forum, but they can broaden their knowledge about crypto, that's where the brain has to melt. ;D

When I was in my final year of college, I was thinking about how to make a living because having a degree does not guarantee a job in my area. I tried a lot of online stuff to make money, but I always failed. I'm still not giving up because I need to survive. Then I discovered Bitcointalk, and my life changed for the better, which is why I adore Bitcointalk!

The reason I like the bitcointalk forum is because it encourages me to be better in terms of insight and knowledge. Because to participate in discussions in this forum, you must include insight and knowledge related to the topics that we will enter. Because of that, I became more active in reading and increasing my knowledge, so that I could be accepted and mingled in this forum. And without realizing it, I became more insightful than before joining this forum. Honestly, when I first joined this forum, sometimes I couldn't even get into a topic being discussed because I always came across terms that were foreign to me. However, because of this, I continue to explore and explore my insights. And foreign terms that I did not know the meaning of, are now commonplace and easy for me to understand. So indirectly I want to thank this forum and everyone in it .

I joined Bitcointalk very late. I was introduced to this forum in 2015 by one of my friend but could not register as I was pretty busy with my job. When I lost my job in 2018 and was searching for ways to earn some money at that time I thought about registering on this forum. I initially started working on bounties as I needed money. For me it was a way to earn beer money at that time. While working on bounties I started exploring the gambling section and found out a lot of crypto casinos. I joined a few and used a my earnings, with luck and calculated steps I  earned more than I expected.

In short Bitcointalk is not just a forum for me but a way to learn new things, explore, try something new and also a way to earn while being active here.

you are right, indeed knowledge continues to grow and everyone can get knowledge like crypto from anywhere and it is indeed available in many writings about crypto. because of the development of the internet which has been so widespread and many have written there and can be found by anyone who really wants to learn. like you, when I first got to know crypto, it was from bitcointalk, and I looked for something that didn't exist on the internet to add insight.
so bitcointalk is clearly very supportive and useful for anyone who wants to learn crypto apart from the internet of course.

I must confess the forum is quite addictive most especially when you come across a good thread that's filled with good replies, my favorite is when there is a debate going on and you see everyone sharing their idea. You get to learn new things every single day.

Bitcointalk is just like a big happy family but remember "wherever there's light there will also be shadows to be found as well". We have some who are here to help us newbies and others who just want to reap others off.

When you first come to this forum, you might feel that it will be an ordinary one but soon you will realize that it is the most interactive and interesting one you may not find elsewhere.
You use the word "addictive" for this forum, which very well explains what it is all about. I can imagine my life without bitcointalk and it feels like something is missing in my life if I do not login into this forum any day.

One of my favorite things about Bitcointalk is the fact one can encounter people from all over the world and from different cultures. Rich people, working class people, newbies and those who were from the beginning together with Satoshi and spite of how different we all are, we ended up gathering together in this specific place on internet to discuss and see how the history of money is being written in front of our eyes.

That is something I personally find very appealing about this place.

Of course, I also like the freedom of speech and the knowledge one can easily find here, but I'd prefer not to repeat to much the things I have the hunch some users have already replied on the thread.

As a writer I initially looked for references from various forums to meet the information I needed for my writing. And I also just happened to be into cryptocurrency. so I found this forum. At first I was confused to be in this forum. But once I got used to it then I became more and more like this forum. Because it is different from other forums that there is no level or level up. Here there is such a thing. Well that's what makes me even more like this forum. We like being appreciated if we improve the quality of our insight then the award will come to you.

I try to explore interesting bitcointhalk articles, I wish I had come here sooner. The world of cryptocurrency is very diverse and requires a lot of time to learn, but thanks to Bitcointalk it becomes easier to digest.
Here I like that I can run into a lot of people from different walks of life who are very knowledgeable and empowered, I learn a lot.

Bitcointalk has level up/ranks   ???

Why i love bitcoin talk,you can express yourself.You can learn about specifiv diacussion not only for earning money.also you will learn those words i never use to express.
Even until now im trying to learn more and study about bitcoin.

It is an incredible forum.
In this forum, I don't just learn, I try to pass on what I know, to discuss with people with opposing views in a human way and try to understand each other's views. The information in this forum is not something that can be monetized or valued. That's why I love the bitcointalk forum and I love spending time here.