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Nearly all threads involve some price discussion.

At least on the bitcoin side, you can find some interesting technical discussion in
Bitcoin Forum > Bitcoin > Development & Technical Discussion

I wish there was something similar for altcoins, where no price or investment discussion was allowed...

The section is called Altercoin discussion so expect every topic to be discussed including price, I don't think altcoins have high-tech discussion due to their nature, the announcement thread of each project already took care of that, and also it is the right place to ask any tech related question.
Despite having the speculation board for such discussion, so many price discussion thread has been created.

We have Service Discussion (Altcoins) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=198.0), Service Announcements (Altcoins)  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=197.0) and Mining (Altcoins) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=160.0) where technical discussions about altcoins are happening. Also, there's the Announcements (Altcoins) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=159.0) if needs to be specific talking about a project's technicality.

That is definitely true here and i would even add that it is even a little bit worse, because a lot of threads are not even discussions about good projects to invest in or other news that are happening in the crypto space with the altcoins, but they are just badly hidden shill threads for the 10000th new meme-coin with no use-case at all that will be dead again within a few days.
That being said, there are some news and events that were happening in the crypto space where i heard here in this sub-forum first. The main reason is probably because i am not active in the bitcoin section because i don't own any bitcoin myself. I agree though that a more technical and sophisticated area would be nice for the altcoins too.

If you are going to discuss a crypto projects, its pretty normal to talks about price and its future value because the purpose of that is to help you decide if you are going to invest or not. I don’t see any problem when discussing the price, you should be more concern about it because good timing on your investments is a must. This is already the altcoins section, you can see a lot of good topic here as well.

create your own, self moderated thread. If there is a big demand for such discussion, maybe it will grow as much as "Wall Observer BTC/USD" - 31 000 pages. But i doubt that. 99% of alts are copie/paste of other project with strong marketing only. Made for pump and dump shame.

Very normal discussion when it comes to price speculation and prediction which it would really be just normal that people would be saying up their speculations towards price.
Im much aware with that Bitcoin dev and tech discussion, for some people who do have indepth understanding on technical aspects would find out for this place to be  that relevant and interesting
which majority of people arent really that knowledgeable on that part.

As far as i know there's no such thing about those kind of board but rather these things are mostly been discussed on projects ANN thread when it comes to this aspect.
Im not sure if there are existing ones or doesnt really have.

There are threads here who talks about politics and Bitcoin as well, this forum is very diverse and I don’t see anything wrong about price speculation, many are more interested about that topics. This forum proves to be one of the best source of crypto information because you can see a lot of good topics here that can actually help you. Open your mind and you’ll see more opportunities, price speculation is good.

Do you mean the altcoin's technical side? Therefore, just tuned-in on their respective threads for updates or what so. There are lots of altcoins around that you can't expect to have a dedicated section just for its technical side.

Since there are lots of altcoins, you will really see discussions related to price or investment, and that includes predictions and speculations.

Can you share some of those threads that you think are not appropriate in this section?

@OP, If you want to discuss technical matters in an altcoins, you can initiate a discussion regarding it on this board by creating a topic. It will attract others to join in the discussion as well. In addition, usually for each Altcoin, they have their own topic to inform any developments that occur in their network or ecosystem, you can find it at Announcements (Altcoins) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=159.0). Don't mind every conversation about price, believe it or not, there are plenty of people here who are not interested in learning more about the technology behind an altcoin, they (or maybe we all) are just looking to profit from it.

There are many discussions about the altcoins, their buying, which one is better, etc. But regarding the name altcoin discussion, I had seen fewer posts about the altcoin to the point, although there are many more discussions about the altcoin in other threads, you need to check them out for the price prediction and another discussion which you want.

It's part of the discussion, TBH. I understand why people are interested in the price because they are using it and buying it as an investment, not as the token itself. Most people are in this because they are interested in the profit factor of the whole cryptocurrency scene.

You can request the board in the Meta Board. But I don't think it's essential because there's a Speculation board  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=224.0)

You can just try to report those posts that have come to your nerves if you don't mind. Mods can do something about it.

With so many altcoins around then it is natural that people lean towards discussing the price of altcoins more than anyhting else, however we need to also recognize that since the majority of the time investors put their money in altcoins not because they actually believe the coin itself has any chance of making a difference during the long term but just to speculate with it, then when we think about it the price is probably the only thing investors care about the coin in which they invested.

You can also discuss about development and technical topics here. It's either you will create a separate thread or you will take it to the official ANN thread of the specific project. I think this is the setup because there are hundreds of projects under altcoin. Under Bitcoin, there's only one. It's Bitcoin alone.

You can open it under Altcoin Discussion or in the project's official thread under Announcements (Altcoins). If it's about altcoin mining, you can do it under Mining (Altcoins). There are also Service Announcements (Altcoins) and Service Discussion (Altcoins) for certain topics involving altcoin related services.

Strictly speaking, if a discussion is about the price of a certain coin, it should be under Speculation (Altcoins).

Yes, Ops should check and explore all the boards in Alternate cryptocurrencies so he can find threads that can fit his criteria to be discussed or made by himself, but the boards and threads that discuss prices and projects are more in demand so that the threads that discuss technical and others are drowned.

you can try going to the ANN thread of the coin/token. that's where they often discuss the details of the project. after some time though the dev team rarely goes back to answer questions technical discussions but just an update of what they are doing at least.

if you want to find out the altcoins development, go to the telegram channel, they will reply or to their blogs.

     You know that all altcoins or cryptocurrencies have a price value, of course when talking about altcoins it will not be out of place to talk about their future price in the future or what is happening in the present.

So, for me, there is nothing more to add here in the forum because almost everything is already here where to find what you want to know dude.

I certainly could. But with technical discussions making up less than 1% of the volume here, they become very hard to pick out. I only visit this board once a while, and have no hope of quickly identifying the few technical threads that do not discuss price and investment (which are completely boring to me).

I want to see a low volume Altcoin technical Discussion, just like the one for Bitcoin.

I don't really know your thought over price discussion but for me i would always ask you to engaged yourself to the section which you best suited than get upset over discussions that involved prices. For instance, Bitcoin Discussion section board would likely involved little prices discussions while the altcoin sections also have prices discussion so it is normal for people around to discussed about price.
There are lot of threads that doesn't includes price which you would like search around.

The purpose of altcoin projects is also to find a way to increase the price of their tokens, so it really doesn't make any sense to just talk about the technologies or solutions that the project offers while the value of their tokens does not increase. We are in an investment forum so it is normal to talk about price, if not about price and value, it is no longer a financial forum.

I think OP could also create a thread that only discusses the technology of that project without discussing the price, but whether anyone is willing to join you is the issue.

There are lot others are being discussed in altcoin discussion board too apart from the speculation but mostly you may relate a thread with price dump or bump but if you want more technical discussion then you can go with the childboards but some threads related to altcoins were discussed in B&H section because the thread creator thought there won't be appropriate reply if its created in altcoin discussion board.

indeed it becomes apparent gambling because because of predicting it without basis and with minimal information that we can we tell people the best coins . it's the same that we engage someone to buy what we buy that is not necessarily an equal or definite profit.

He probably hasn't visited the other sections and that's why he's curious about it. He can bring up a lot of discussion to any of those sections where he's interested in bringing technical discussions that he wants to know or might want to share.

I think to start out, go to the mining section for altcoins and that's where I think is a good place to start. Otherwise, try to check the other sections that I've said where it's possible to discuss technical things about altcoins.

I don't think the demand for altcoin technical discussion is enough to open up a new board or child board. I discussed some technical discussion here, but the thread was short-lived, and some of the thread itself is buried over other many threads that are encouraging spamming.

I even doubt there is a plenty amount of members that discuss altcoin technical topics on this forum, an altcoin technical discussion seems more favoured on another forum.

Many people talking about new crypto projects here within on this forum, so don't be surprised if you see some altcoins discussions even in other sections and threads .  :D its very common coz there are some users that came up from such topic even the title of the thread is different from what they're talking.. Lol

Well only thing you can do right now is to is show us the way and be an example instead wishing that from others.

Start your own threads about altcoins that are not about price but more on the technical side. And if you want to tune out that price talk even more you could make those threads self moderated (which i don't recommend) with the rule of "no price talk".

However sometimes incentives and inflation etc are important to talk about when we talk about game theory of tokenomics in staking/mining. Because that's important part of security. So maybe those threads shouldn't have absolute rules on that

But i totally understand your point. I think that many people would enjoy such threads while most people in here are not equipped to comment in them.

This is a Bitcoin forum mate, how can you expect that we will have more sections or topics to discuss on various factors about the altcoins? Moreover if you see 90% of the total members here in the forum are interested to discuss about Bitcoins, rather than about some shitty altcoins. If you want to discuss about any particular altcoin, then go to twitter and battle over there. You should be grateful that atleast you have a sub section here, and when possible people are sharing opinions here on the coins. Enjoy what you got and don’t complain bro.

I tjink that this forum has provided several boards that are enough for having the discussions on each board. Not most of them are price prediction. We will see different threads in different board. As we know that if someone is posting something in certain board and it is not suitable with the board, moderator or the OP itself will move the thread to the appropriate board.

Here, if we can see, this forum has growingly spreading more information, discussions, focus, development, sharing experiences and more. Not only about price prediction.

@OP sadly there's no such section in Altcoins board since most users are spammers or shills about their own projects.

You didn't even read anything on those section.

Service discussion (Altcoins) this is similar like Bitcoin discussion and Service discussion in global board, which is discuss about a website.

Service announcements (Altcoins) is just similar like Service in global board where many users post their service and this has nothing to do with Altcoins development.

Mining (Altcoins) it's a technical discussion to mine altcoins, it's different with Altcoins development.

Announcements (altcoins) seriously you say it's technical? it's full of spam where people just post unimportant news in order to fill quota post.

There are still some interesting discussions that still happen here, also Bitcoin is one out of the many cryptocurrencies, and this forum is mostly about bitcoins and not altcoins, it has only included an altcoin side for accommodation and necessity and has enough boards for all things about altcoins to be discussed. I personally do not see any reason having a special board for discussions about development and technical discussions for altcoins, when the numbers of altcoins are never ending.

When altcoins have a large increase in a short period of time, everyone will discuss more. Because Bitcoin is a long-term investment, its price is relatively stable. The most important thing to invest in altcoins is to make profits through altcoins, so everyone will pay more attention to the price than Bitcoin. This forum will also discuss some technologies and the like, and you can also find out what the technical support behind some altcoins is like here.

I am guessing that altcoin discussion is open for altcoin price speculation a bit right? I mean that is what the whole point is, there are other topics, economics, speculation, bitcoin discussion even where you could go and talk about just purely bitcoin and surrounding things.

But, if you want to make sure that there is a good chance that we could not see any type of altcoin price discussions here because it is altcoin discussion section of the forum then it should make sense to you as well. I am not saying that is just what it is, we talk about new or old coins and tokens as well, and discuss how they are doing but price is priority in most cases to people.

All kinds of cryptos are being talked about here whether it is old or new and there are even talks for non cryptos like for example fiat money and other assets. There is no problem with that as long as they are being placed on the proper section but if not, I think mods are also doing it for the op of those threads so I salute those active mods who are doing their jobs very well.

For those newbies, it will be better if they read more first than creating a topic so that they can avoid mistakes and end up spamming the forum. The title of the thread should match with the body of the message so that it doesn't mislead the readers and the thread won't be moved in the trash can.

There are other interesting topics on altcoins you should just find it and engage with it. Yes there are other topics that arent worth our time and majority were repeated one and has been talked about in the past. But if you are an altcoin fan, you easily dind it easy to find out an interesting one since youll be updated on whats hot on altcoins. Comparing to bitcoin, there are more altcoins so expect that a lot of subject or new projects has been introduced or talk about in this section.

I think the price discussion is done in the speculation subforum on this forum. But some people may consider altcoins dissussion to mean all of them are altcoins even if it's priced. I guess that actually makes this sub forum off-topic even though it's not far off but less relevant to the name of the sub forum.

Indeed in this forum have several specific board and all member discussing about their opinion based on board topic, I think not matter in this board most dominance by discussing altcoin based on the boar name Altcoin Discussion. You can move to Bitcoin Discussion if not excited with Altcoin discussion, there you can discussing about Bitcoin price and update news in daily day.

Not prohibited for disallowed for discussing with altcoin in this board, but possibility in altcoin speculation board for discussing about altcoin, depend with your self if want stay here you can active in topic without discussing about altcoin, many board or topic left have another discussing topic except with altcoin.

Most people here only see altcoins on the potential profit that it can give them but not really see the possible technical application of alts on whatever it is that they want to get done. Not everyone thinks as a developer, most people think only as an investor and that stops there. I can't blame them though, most alts are not that interesting and are mostly rehashes of a previous altcoin that has been buried already a long, long time ago. I personally am not a hardcore altcoin enthusiast, but I do know how to appreciate a good alt (in terms of practical application and technicality) when I see one.