Bitcoin Forum

https://blog.bitmex.com/the-bitcoin-forum/

Hmm - interesting article !
Anyone know who the author is ?

The article about forum history, its hacks.

If you need to double check information, there: Bitcointalk history of hacks and vandalism. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4405796.0)

Forum history is not only about hacks, so if you want more, beyond hacks, there: The most iconic bitcointalk threads. History on Bitcointalk. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4322078.0)

The forum largely describes events I didn't know about earlier, so it was informative, but it also seems that it's not really the history of the forum, as much as it is about hacks and financial discussions related to donations (and how they were used). To me, these are not the most important aspects. The article doesn't talk about the life of the forum, prominent members, popular topics, features that were added at certain points in time (like the merit system), signature campaigns etc.
As for the author, I tried finding the info on the website, but couldn't find anything.

I just finished reading it. I have no idea who's the creator of the article but I liked it. TheAymos, despite being a kid at that time, according to the article (he may confirm it or not, I guess), was able to always come up front and speak openly without hiding anything or making shady moves. That is something one needs to have some maturity at the age of 19 or 20. And we need to put it in context. Bitcoin was just some random piece of software created by someone without support of any major or notable partners. I mean, if it was with me, I would see it as some joke at that time! So, I wouldn't bother much with responsability.

I must say that this article has shown me things that I don't know about this forum, but there should be some form of editing on the article: either they change the title to "The hack history and fund usage of the Bitcointalk forum" because that's all the forum is all about, or they provide just a few details regarding the change of owners, which I already have seen on this forum. Another thing I saw in the article is that they don't care about privacy; they use provided data of users from different sources that was posted years ago on other platforms to determine the users real names and ages. That's some worthless information for that article.

All the information I found educative was how funds were raised and used for the betterment of the forum. I was actually not aware of how the forum funds were raised; I knew about forum donations but didn't know they were its major source.

According to the article:


And this is the story of how Theymos become the admin of this community, also there is a fun-fact that he shared in this post:


It would be cool if the author has included this information,  ;D

I was surprised to see that the forum have experienced different hack before, I don’t really know anything about this. I don’t know maybe the forum members accounts where affected during the hack and if yes, I don’t know how they secured their accounts back, or is it that every member will have to create new account again? Also what was the primary aim of the people that hacked the forum, or do we think that the hack was backed by some government agency just to stop the spread of bitcoin. I will like to know if their is anything we should do that might help us recover our forum account back incase if their is any hack in future, but we all don’t hope for that.

This is really a nice article, I don’t know authentic every thing in the article is but am sure lots of people will learn what they don’t know about forum before from the Article.

I don't quite get the whole point of the article. What does the author really want to say? Does he/she just want to share that there is such a thing as a Bitcoin forum and that it survived certain hacks and then it has money?

Anyway, I agree that Theymos has captained this forum quite well. Considering that he started as a lead administrator at a relatively young age and must also be busy juggling other responsibilities outside this forum, he did quite well. He always seems brilliant and balanced and decisive, too.

Not sure who he/she is. Most likely the individual could be a member of this community as well.

In any case, it's was a fresh air to see some blogs regarding the community, it's rich history and of course, Theymos himself, to be the man who keep this forum on-going when all others admins has quit.e

Some of us may have known the story already, but there could be some here who even didn't known some facts about this community and it's good that this blog post has open the eyes of this newbies.

Surely the author took time to do some research to have all this information. Bitmex seems to have a huge interest that they've published all of these along with its criticism.  After the criticism though the author appreciates Theymos of his management.

Whether it's true that the hackers got access to the private messages or not. It's gotta be concerning for someone at that time if they have shared information including identities.

Having a good read, thanks for sharing the article.

The article explains some of the history neatly. The compilation of such information surely, I think, would make other or any upcoming Bitcoin users know Bitcoin history better, specifically about this forum. Since I personally did not dig down this forum deeper, there is information that I barely noticed, like the forum's finances.

Although at that time there isn't any exact evidence, if the attack vulnerability itself is capable of accessing users' PM, it can be safely assumed the PM might also be accessed.

Added, thanks.


Pretty much.

You sometimes hear people casually say that Theymos may have misappropriated the donated funds. The article provides a series of citations and quotes, which put this allegation into context, so that the reader can see what happened.

What?

Do you mean you are an author of the blog article on BitMEX? Surprising that someone works for BitMEX has an account in Bitcointalk and still posting around.

About Bitcoin Talk, you must mention about its origin, where it was migrated from.
https://bitcoin.sourceforge.net/boards/index.php

I am the author, yes