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Its a bit weird to ask, but noticing that at a certain rank here, Forum users are permitted to add pictures to their profile, Has there been any user in the history of forum that has opted to use their personal picture as the image displayed there?

I don't think members of this forum will opt to use theh picture as an avatar on the forum, as that will expose their identity. Bitcointalk users are Anonymous and we are all known by our user names since we have high respect for privacy.

But why do we desperately want to remain anonymous here where some of us have public profiles on some other forum or social media platform. Or is there any where on the forum where anonymity is explicitly advised?

It comes with the territory. You're in a Bitcoin forum, get used to it. Bitcoin users value their privacy. It's the same on Reddit and other crypto platforms. The common goal is to share our knowledge on Bitcoin and share our unique experience in the Bitcoin ecosystem. What good will having profile pictures do for the community?

I saw someone before using the real him in Avatar I don't remember the name but I remember he is a developer.



Don't compare this forum to other social media I don't think about the other forum I usually use a different avatar than my own picture as an avatar.
Privacy is very important not just here on the forum but also in other forums. That is why we always see a privacy policy when accessing websites because most of people always want privacy.

On social media, like Facebook, you have the option to don't upload your real picture and actually, it doesn't require you can use their website or app without uploading or sending personal data.

Same here if you value your privacy then don't upload if not then anytime you can upload your real you. However, only full members above can able to wear avatars.

Maybe you're thinking of Gavin Andresen (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=224)?


IMHO, the importance of privacy is underestimated by most people. If you're on the fence about it, this topic (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5394338.0) (by o_e_l_e_o) is well worth a careful read.

I've seen some users that has got pictures that were intended for profile pictures. But I don't know if that's them or just some grabbed photos on the web.

This actually isn't a big matter, whether you use your actual picture but since this is a forum. Majority of us are unlikely going to use their real pictures due to privacy concerns.

Most people don't want to use their personal pictures to use on their profile which the purpose is to keep their privacy much like being anonymous to people. You can choose to upload your personal pictures as your avatar or you won't. It's up to you to decide if you did that or keeo your privacy. We are not here in this forum to share what we looks likr but to share knowledge and help therefore having personal pictures as your avatar is not necessary/required.

I've also seen a user use his real picture here before but I don't know if he's still active. But everyone here on this forum does not use their photo because of privacy. It is better to just remain anonymous because we are in the crypto space. Even in other forums, this is also what I notice.

What profile picture do you mean? A photo of the real user itself or a certain avatar from the certain project?
If it is about a photo of the member itself, it will depend on the member itself whether they want to show up their real picture or not. But, in this Bitcoin forum, most people will nto do that.
But, if this is about avatar and signature of any project or platform, yes we are here wearig the picture and signature because we are here as participants f Signature campaign.

There were indeed users who made use of their personal photos as avatars. As mentioned, there was Gavin Andresen. But surely the most prominent of them all was the venerable Hal Finney (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2436). Hal also had his own pic as his avatar. There were probably more of them.

On a side note, I was quite surprised that while Hal died in 2014 and had his last post here in 2013, his account was last active in 2017. So not only did he not hide his identity here, he probably also shared access to his account here with his family.

There’s actually some members in the past that used there own picture for there avatar. Most of them are prominent developers or owner of business that they are promoting here in the forum, One of them is Hal Finney which you can see here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2436 but there’s still other member that use this forum with there identity reveal.

But at the present, No one dares to use there own picture as avatar except for @cabalism31  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1605387

Can you share those who uses their profile for their accounts. I doubt they are sharing this cause this isnt a social site where we can display photos like that for sharing. Maybe if they did then they doesnt care at all at their personal profile being exposed which isnt bad but of course we are avoiding those toj be used by scammers. Its not prohibited but not advise to do in my opinion.

Yes, I am really a tiny roaring kitten.

In fact, I know two users who used their real photos as an avatar here, but both have been absent from the forum for a few years now.
No, I won't tell who they are/were. :P

It's an individual thing. Everyone has the right to their privacy and anonymity here, but it doesn't mean they're hiding anything. It is up to each of us to decide whether we will reveal our real identities or not. The people who care a lot about their privacy will probably still keep their identities private, but those who are more comfortable with the exposure of their identities can choose whether to reveal that or not.

A personal photo doesn't seem to be of any advantage on a forum profile since this isn't a dating site. Besides, no one should judge a person by their appearance.

Just like reddit, bitcointalk is a forum and usually people on forum websites wants to remain anonymous even if they use social media platforms. There is no rule pertaining that you should use a real person's picture on your account and no one will also stop you if you want to use it. It's dangerous to reveal your identity here because sometimes the topics shows what's your financial status in real life.

If you don't want to be doxed, let's avoid uploading your personal photos on this forum or on any site when you're using Internet.

You can not erase it completely as that site has data backup as well as many scrapper and archives can work and catch your photo. In this forum, it's hard to see people using their real identity, real personal photos. I don't know anyone uses personal photo here but of course, the forum has about 3.5 million users and I can miss some cases.

Anyway, it is not recommendable to upload personal photo for your user avatar. Many drama about doxing attacks.

There are some who choose to post their real identity here for their own reasons and others who we don't know if their profile picture is their real picture.  We are on this forum, It would be nice to take advantage of the anonymity that the forum provides. Most of us here remain anonymous, Even reputed and most trusted members here doesn't reveal themselves because I think there could be a problems in the future just like what happened on other people who doxed themselves on their own projects. I've seen threats over doxed crypto project owners just because of their projects downfall that is being affected by the current market scenarios.

You don't have to worry about the forums being 'anonymous'. You only see photos of women and men on their account profiles, they remain anonymous, their identity remains hidden even though technically what you see is a private photo, who knows, many pictures you can find on the internet belong to other people.

For example you, your account name is named: @Queentoshi, I can guarantee anyone who goes to your country and looks for Queentoshi no one knows, even if you post a photo that looks real (human), it's the same with those you see, even though they put up real photos that you see, they certainly can't be tracked.

Don't remember if someone has used his real image as profile or better call it Avatar on the forum as many prefer to remain anonymous but like if you have joined some signature campaign then there is rule that you have to wear signature as well as Avatar while campaign like CM allows you to have custom one so you can opt of your choice but don't think so that anyone would be using his real identity.

A profile picture will help attackers identify you in real life and if you are a successful trader, then you will face a real threat of losing your money by physically or psychologically forcing you to do so. And no one can guarantee that you will post your real photo here, and not a photo of any famous person.

I don't know if some user here in forum use their real picture or wear their picture as a avatar, we all know that forum user here was choose anonymous and to protect our identity as well. But I saw a user here in forum wearing a picture of a man as avatar but I don't know if that man on the avatar is the real owner of the account I prefer to not mentioned in him here to remain his identity anonymous.

It's possible that some members did use a picture of themselves, to show who they are. But it is assumed from 1000 users maybe only 2 people who display their own profile picture. This is indeed related to identity and privacy, I myself have never even used my personal profile photo publicly, even on social media. being anonymous without being known by anyone is not a problem, the most important thing is that you can still be useful and have a second identity for cyberspace.
Separating real life and virtual life is very important, so that there is no threat that comes when some people start to be curious about our lives.

I think most people would prefer to remain anonymous on this forum. I think users on the forum do not use their real photos and choose to use various avatars for a reason.
Besides, the forum isn’t exactly like other social platforms and I personally think it’s best to remain anonymous on here.
There are weird creepy people out there

If we proceed from the fact that today even home appliances, which, it would seem, should not spy, spy on users, simply posting your photos is tantamount to showing yourself naked.
And this applies not only to this forum, I see no reason to talk about myself on social networks and post my photos and photos of my family. Your vanity will play a bad game with you.
By providing too much information about yourself, you give all sorts of companies the opportunity to manipulate your interests and present news in accordance with the resources you have viewed.
I'll just keep silent about how unsafe it is to show yourself on this forum.

Not necessarily. You will find that many Bitcoiniers don't use Facebook, Instagram, and many popular Google services. Twitter is different because you can call yourself whatever you want over there. But even if you have social media accounts, you are not going to be called Queentoshi and I wouldn't be Pmalek on Facebook. Your name is your name and your Bitcointalk personality doesn't and shouldn't be connected to it.   

But do we really know that is him?

Maybe they use their real photo in the profile picture to make them look more trustworthy. To grab more attention for their useful contribution?  But at first, we weren't sure if the picture they used was theirs personally. Because there are also cheaters who only use the picture of others. But in the end, there is still no basis that the person who posted the real photo will not be able to do wrong or fraud. Because big money is dazzling even if it damages your reputation.

I have read in the forum that during the early days of the forum, people were actually using their pictures because yhe avatar space was actually for profile picture. The day I was researching the forum, I discovered that those old accounts had pictures on them, maybe their owners have left the forum or are dead.
Privacy was not a big issue for the early people of this forum. Even the famous bitcoin for pizza man had his picture displayed and his address he made public for delivery of the pizza.
This Privacy of a thing I think became more effective in the forum when Satoshi mysterious disappeared, then people began to understand the benefits of being anonymous

How on earth did they do it when this is a forum and it's not really like a company or something? Maybe those people exposing their photos aren't their real photo but exposing your self is likely trying to say it's me, come find me. Whereas it's different when in social media or maybe if someone has a LinkedIn account that sure would be a reputable one but I don't think it's meant for exposing it's just for their portfolio. And this avatar in this forum is not meant for profile picture since this forum isn't any social media that they've known.

Niceuuu Answerrrr yeah we pretty much anonymous  8) and stay in the dark. and of course, have high respect for privacy

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but if the OP wants to share their profile picture is totally fine as long is appropriate hahah and there is no benefit in this forum if u add you real face, and maybe the benefit for scammer tho so I don't recommend that

This will be very difficult to see because when you consider bitcoin and the forum here its all about privacy and you can't expect people going by this now to be thesame ones preaching against it, for the fact that you adopt bitcoin for use on itself is because you're seeking for a private live away from fiat and government, you may come across sone users using pictures on their profiles but i can tell you that there's high probability that it's not theirs,done are of their influencers or the person and organizations they represent.

It always depend on what you want the forum members to know about you and if you want people to see your really
 Identify then I think that's bad because they can use your pictures to find your real identity. This forum is a faceless forum and since Bitcoin is decentralized then I don't think using your real picture as avatar really make sense. Many users do use project they are promoting or signature campaign they are pictures.

No, I don’t think so because if they post pictures, they would break their anonymity. Imo, one should never use their own picture here, but some people do.

Why would one think of uploading his/her pictures as avatar,  the forum is not social media where by personal photos are necessary for identification of close people.  Bitcointalk.org is anonymous forum which it purpose is to discuss bitcoin and learn about bitcoin. Since I joined the forum I haven't seen anyone who as uploaded his/her personal photos as avatar if am correct.  Uploading personal photos in the forum is not important and won't be any benefit to the forum.

There are some of the members put a photo on their avatar. I'm pretty sure the photo posted is their real photo. Gavin Andresen and Hal Finney I saw already mentioned above.

- Gavin Andresen (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=224 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=224) - https://github.com/gavinandresen (https://github.com/gavinandresen))
- Hal (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2436 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=2436))
- Luke-Jr (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3318 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3318) - https://github.com/luke-jr (https://github.com/luke-jr))
- adam3us (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=101601 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=101601) - https://github.com/adam3us (https://github.com/adam3us) - http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/ (http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/))

At least it can be a part of history that they were once part of the Bitcointalk Forum. Even some of the names I mentioned above are Bitcoin experts.

And I quote "the worst part about betrayal is that it doesn't come from an enemy". This forum unlike other social media gathering is primarily focused on financial assets engagements, and with the way the world is right now everything associated to assets must be privacy minded as no one can be trusted, not even one you call a friend cause that's where most betrayals easily emanates from.

Indeed, if someone is using and making connections from this forum to their social media, this will be only realitsic f they are using the accounts for joining social media campaigns. And those must not be their real social media accounts. I believe that none need to tell us who they are exactly in the real world even though they may seem to tell about who they are, but we don't need to trust whether they are real or not. (except they are real teams of a certain project)