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Newbies, you are all welcome to this forum as you are in the right place to learn all angles of bitcoin and many more. It is easy to grow here, if you are ready to learn.  There is board here that is called local board in the forum.

Local board is a board that was given by Theymos, to people from your country for easy discussion, so that you can learn and contribute in your native language for proper understanding and also to assist one  another.

So many newbies here don't know that the forum has a local board for their countries, and they find it difficult to interact in their local language for easy understanding. When I first registered here, I didn't know that Nigeria has a local board and it took me three months before I finally saw our local board. I felt overwhelmed and felt at home the moment I visited the board, also it made me feel comfortable to ask questions there and also to contribute on topic been discussed in our local board.

As a newbie, it is important that ypu identify yourself with your local board, because it will enable you to learn in your local language which might help you understand topics being discussed in the forum faster, and it will also make you grow faster, especially those people that English Language is their second language. Local board will make you also have good contact and have new friends from your country because, life doesn't end here in bitcointalk, since nobody knows tomorrow.

Although, there are some countries that Theymos hasn't grant their request to give them their own local board, that shouldn't discourage you from posting there, because it is the number of people in a local board and how active that sub board is that will help to speed up the provision of your own local board. On the forum home page, if you scroll down, after alternative cryptocurrency, you will see where the local board is, scroll down to see if your country is also written there and if not, it means that your country hasn't been given a local board yet but you can also look for your country here Other languages (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=11.0).
 Bitcointalk is open for everyone in the world, so you should also enjoy posting in your local board here.


This is the advantage of  a local board, a member got most of his merits from his local board, and got to Full Member rank.

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Identifying with your local board would help you alot and your stay on this platform would enable you scale through successfully. Local boards encourage members here to enteract freely with themselves very much because the use of local dialect is encouraged as most members here do not speak English so therefore the local board would help them muete their presence here and building them through till they are very much equipped with knowledge and experience to be able to contribute their quota here to the development of their various boards.

The idea of local board  is very helpful as it makes members relate very well.  You will meet with new friends here both reputable and new beginners within your country. This further helps on the Bitcoin awareness and adoption course because when the locals meet, they encourage themselves to start up a process that would attract the attention of the masses to Bitcoin which would warrant massive adoption as it is gradually doing now. I believe local boards can also in one way facilitate the speedy adoption of Bitcoin globally.

The idea for local board is actually a commendable one as it allows people from the same community to interact with one another in their native languages and to also discuss about their internal affairs such their government policies, bitcoin development, exchanges and local politics as well. It build confidence in newbies as the senior members from the local board guide them, correct them and make them to familiar from the local board to the wider general board.

English is known to be a universal language but some people can not find it easy to communicate with it either in written form or verbally. This set of people interact more often in their local board than in general board because they feel among and in the midst of the colleague who speaks the same language with them. With the absence of local board, this particular groups will feel discouraged in the forum and may end up leaving the forum eventually. Although, it's not compulsory to belong or interact in local board but it is actually a good thing if you are opportune to have your people here in the forum.

Thank you so much for this information. Actually I had no idea that the local boards was also for interactions. I initially thought it was for a different purpose.

I just went to mine, and saw some interesting people that are ready to help the newbies like me. That's very nice. Thanks again for this information.

For someone who is ready to explore the forum themselves without being told a local board exist will definitely find out there are sections for that, but it should be noted that participating in them is by choice, you can always maintain being on the English boards, but those having strong issues from comprehending English language should find it more suitable for them to express themselves in the language they best understand, bitcoin is for everyone and language should not be a barrier for anyone to learn about it.

Newbies should remain active on their local boards, but as you said, many are still not aware if there is any local board or anything like a local board. In our community, we have a signature maker, GladiatorComeback and another member hamza2424 paid $15 dollars from his own pocket to make a full set of the signatures, like for every rank, and made signatures that were used to let other newbie Pakistani citizens know that we have a local board where you can learn about locals. And the best part is that you will be guided like a child there, and the community will support you unexceptionally.

I also got to know about my local board after 1 year, I think. And I was so relieved when I got to know that we have our own board here and our own people here, to whom we can talk in our local language. I also got to know about this forum from them and learned a lot, and the community supported me too.

Your community also got the board recently, and they are doing very well. I have checked the stats of your country, and you guys are rocking. You should keep up the spirit, and I even saw many newbies there getting supported, and they should be.

Everyone has to need to join their own local board. I am talking about everyone from legendary to newbie. The local board is very important for those who have no or less command of the English language. The legendary and other ranks help the new members in their native language. Most members do not understand the forum rules efficiently or they do not know the forum rules when they join their local board the member of those boards clarify how the forum work and how to do a quality post in short the local boards are like nursery where they are growing, Knowing about the form and more study about the bitcoin in their own country language through which they easily understand. After the process, they came out from the local board and serve the forum more accurate and pricisely.

Although the rules of the forum apply to all boards I see the local board as a lenient part of the forum. Newbies can make mistakes and be corrected with love easily on their local board. However such mistakes might lead to severe bashing in the international boards. It also makes new members more comfortable and confident since they are among countrymen. For non-English speaking members, the local board will be a good training ground to get used to the operations of the forum. It is not compulsory to join discussions but it could be very helpful. But some persons might have various reasons for not visiting their local board. Members might want to maintain absolute privacy and the international board is the most convenient to achieve it.

I've seen accounts of forum users who have risen to a high rank (i.e. full member) without having to discuss it in the main board. Some of them are so good on their local boards that they contribute and help their community grow by contributing useful posts there, which I much adore. On local boards, you can always get the best answers to your queries in a pleasant manner that does not sound harsh, as some individuals believe they receive harsh responses from forum users.

In contrast to the general board, it is simple and easy to respond to someone who speaks the same dialect as you since it is immediately understandable, relatable, and easily replied to as opposed to the general board where you find plenty users of different dialects that may not understand your point better than your country man.

The Nigeria local board was truly created of recent after numerous applications and request and it was granted to them by Theymos. The board so far has been on the headlines of this platform with lots of active participants and reputable members who has contributed to the growth and development of this platform if I am not mistaken. The recent increase. The increase in Nigeria community here is very much welcoming and this shows that Nigerians are much inclined and updated when it comes to innovations and development in technology.

You are right, I am a local member of the Pakistan community, and I have also seen many members of my community come to know about it after a very long time, even though there was a user who came to know about the local community after 1 year. And there were others too, so we as a community decided to get the signature of the local board that we could promote here on BTT and let other Pakistani members know that.

They have a local board here where they can communicate with their local members and feel at home too. I hope that our signature has helped others find our board.

Unfortunately, we are on that list, but I hope with some help we can be able to get our own local board. Currently, we have only topics but not boards.

That's good to know, efforts bring the fruit of success, I know how hard it is to get approval for a board, and we are also working to make our dream of a local board come true, our respected Shahzadafzal has already made an appeal, (if I am not wrong with username).

And I also did not know that the local members of Nigeria, have contributed to the development of this forum, actually, I don't recognize many Nigerians, as I only looked at the monthly stats 1 or 2 times, and came to know that ok, this member and this member is from Nigeria, but sometimes, the same member is posting in different local boards so, sometimes, it's hard to verify.

But, I will appreciate your efforts, if you will help me to introduce the development they had made for the BTT. For motivation.

I'm sure there are many members here who are not active on their local boards, I don't know why they do that. There are many advantages to actively discussing on local boards, we can share experiences and share problems regarding the world of crypto or other things with compatriots or maybe we will be able to create projects in the future with friends on our local boards, continue to maintain your relationships with your fellow countrymen in this forum, you won't lose anything.

It would be nice that you know how hard working Nigerians are and as such are good at contributing to the development of wherever they find themselves. It may please you to know about our monthly overview (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5357434.0) by Igebotz (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1045971). This initiative has fast developed the board and making members to be active while on-boarding of new members  also. So far it has contributed to the growth of this platform because more Nigerians have registered so far and also creating of bitcoin awareness and adoption. I  believe these are just the few amongst the numerous reasons why our request was granted to have our own local board.

Hmm, nice to hear and introduce the local board to every newbie, because when I was new to this forum, I didn't even know about my local thread. And when I found out, I was very happy to find a thread in my native language, in which all the information that is necessary for the modern era of Bitcoin adoption was introduced in my mother tongue. The local board allows members to share information, guidance, and experience related to the cryptocurrency field in their mother tongue, making it more accessible to everyone for better understanding. Therefore, the identification of the local board is very important for the new members so that if someone has a problem speaking English, he can master his issues in his own native language on the local board or thread under the supervision of his senior fellow.

Recently, a local board has been formed in Ningeria. There are quite possessive and capable members who can guide you and every newcomer very well in their native language. We (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232519.0) have also submitted the appeal of our local board under the supervision of our senior in the court of Taymos, and I hope that Taymos will announce the announcement of your local board very soon.

Yep, happened to me once, and make me don't want to post in global boards for a while, global boards was really harsh on mistake. But from what I observe, it's far more tolerant to newbies day by days, as long as the post is not merit fishing or spam and junk, the higher rankings and other members who are currently active in several global boards is much more appreciative and less of a bully.

All that being said, I am agree that newbie should active in the local board while learning some technical term related to bitcoin, blockchain and crypto, and also learn more details on how the forum works.

I agree with you, and it is a nice gesture, but without a welcome message, it is difficult for beginners to know that there is a local board, and even your topic will disappear after a few days, and perhaps it would be more difficult if the board was in other languages/locations.
Writing in the local language makes you express your feelings and ideas better, as we are in a forum of multiple languages, nationalities, and educational levels, and you will find that some boards may be difficult for you.

Your idea is good, but I'll tell you why it has never worked for me. When I came to the forum I never wrote anything on my local board, even though it was already there. I value my privacy and I don't want people to know where I'm from and where I live. Usually local languages have this friendly drive where people want to know where you're from, what you do for living, finally want to organize meetups, conferences and such. I don't want to tell them no and I don't want to take part in this. I prefer to stay anonymous.

Local boards are very important and everyone both newbies and higher ranked account should identify with their local baord. It's the higher ranked accounts that will make the local board conducive for the newbies that's why I said they're needed on the boards/threads too, you gain nothing when you disassociating yourself from your local board instead you're leaving it in the hands of those that might be competent to pilot the affair of the board but when you join hands with them, you guys will be able to groom the next generation of productive users of the forum. I knew the importance of local board and that's why I was a strong advocate for the Nigerian local baord which we have gotten. Newbies are more free and inspired when they're surrounding by those from their locality and they learn better that way before exploring the main boards.


The recent local boards that was granted by theymos all gave him a reason for doing that so if others what the same thing they need to also prove to theymos that when their board will be approved it won't become dormant like some local boards are. The activities on the board needs to increase and older members on the board should come together and put hands together to see how they can create awareness about the threads to their countrymen on the forum. For Nigeria it was easy to identify one from the way they write so if you have similar attributes for your country men you can send them DM to invite them to the thread or create other campaigns like Signature Campaign for the purpose of creating awareness for the thread. You can organize local competition to keep them interested in discussing on the thread and before you know, your local thread will have active contributors without any extender motivations but first people need to be motivated to contributions to discussion on the thread.

Your idea is good if there are welcome messages to beginners but for me I think even without welcome messages a beginner who's exploring the forum will be anxious to go round the different boards here just to know what there is all about. Yes topics due disappear after some time but the name of the countries with local boards in the forum are always there for a newbie to see if such person is exploring the forum and yes you can't compare your method of your communications in your local boards to other sections of the forum because you will be free to express yourself more using your local language than English especially if the person is not very good in writing in English.

You are actually correct; when I first joined the forum, it took me a few months before I was able to interact because I didn't even know where to begin. I did my best to read the rules of the forum and to learn about bitcoin, but I still struggled with the urge to engage in conversation. However, as soon as I saw my country's local board, I realised that their interactions were just like real-world interactions, and my country's local board has since given me more confidence.

The local is an very important component of the forum and not just to newbies but to all and sundry. There are persons that are not fluent in English language, they find it uncomfortable interacting with people in their general board, they are intelligent and knowledgeable but the language barrier is an impediment to their learning process. So the local board gives such categories of persons the opportunity learn and make contributions on the forum. It more also makes people feel welcomed and at home.

The local board is very important as it avails the opportunity to those who can not communicate  fluently in English on the general discussion board here. When such members locate their local boards, they feel free and engage in most conversations in their local languages and some of them make good and valuable contributions to their boards in ideas and solutions. They feel at home just as you have said mate and that is very good because when they have that comfort, they can easily learn and acquire more knowledge as they desire to.

Some people must have experienced the same thing as you OP and it must be a lot, but in my opinion it is only natural that it happens because it takes time to explore the forum and learn it, especially the local council in the bottom position in the main page, maybe they will miss it.

Maybe in the process there is a 1 day to find the local council of their country in the forum, as you use 3 months to find your local council forum here.

Good direction op.

 This is a good observation you made here op and I quite agree with you. The local board is supposed to be the first place to familiarize with and every question they(newbies) have will be supplied there without it looking like spam or off topic; but that doesn't mean it's an excuse to litter though.
In my local board, there's this thread @CryptoprenuerBrainboss  created (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5121680.0), that has presented a platform for newbies to freely associate and further learn more about the forum this has helped create more indulgence in the local section.

OP, you are very correct with everything that you said on this thread. The local board is essential for newbies because most of them will find it difficult to understand the forum and discussions here because they will be confused with the whole set up. I could remember when I first came here, I only post on few boards but as time goes on I got to know that there is where I can meet people from my country and even communicate in our local language, my interest to learn increased.

Locating your local board makes you feel at home and would love to learn because you will be guided and encourged by people from your locality. Some topics that are important on general boards must have been translated in your local language which makes it easy to understand

The importance of local boards can't be overemphasized and I so agree with op that there are Alot of people who don't even know that they have a local board or thread and I encourage people to always identify with their local boards and always do their best to always show and stay active with their local board.

Regarding a user who got most of his merits from the local board, isn't a new case an that very local board you stated has been one of the very active local boards and they also have some very good posters as well as several local board merit sources and is right if you see members of that board growing fine

One of the major reason for a local board is to help members identify with members from their locality so as to get easy mentorship and navigation guide on the forum.

Yeah that's true because my local board was were tutored me to be confident enough to involved myself in most boards I was scared to post but after being welcome properly in my local board, I was familiar with most of the user members there and whenever am surfing the forum and I tend to see a broda am familiar with its give the courage to chip in my own contribution because starting the forum here is all that good for some members because alot of newbie account are overwhelmed with confusion and the board is the perfect place to get rid of that faulty perception.

Yes, in local board, it is easier for us to discuss because we use our country's native language. I saw several new members who were really taught how to use the forum properly. Starting from how to quote to the rules in the forum. I think it's easier to discuss in the local board because a lot of discussions take place in our country so we know very well the conditions on the ground, besides that because we come from the same country, there is a kind of team spirit and it's easier to get merit there.

True, I know much about technical wallets and how to save in Bitcoin from my local board. In the local board, you will not encounter a language barrier, and you can ask detailed questions there without being afraid of not being understood. But, specifically in my local board (Indonesia), I think that board is pretty tight, there are many reporters who can report you if you are a spammer. I have to be careful posting there because if you deviate from the rule you will be warned, and because of that many Indonesian members are unwilling to post in there and get around to creating a new account just to ask a silly question.

During my time as newbie Im not ecen aware of the local boards and thought of forum as a sophisticated english place for discussion. But later on found out about this local boards and it helps me more to learn since I could interact with our native language and I could supply ideas easily without having hardship to explain and discuss it. Not all are proficient in english and one way to fast learning is through your own language.

This is good reminder that every newbir should or at least visit their locals so to see more clear explanation if they are having hard time with the international boards.

Local board have more contribution for beginner easily for understanding with rule in Bitcointalk forum, but disappointed with some beginner prefer ask their question in global forum before reading an easily rule have wrote in their local board. Despite they won't account have history with local board post or some beginner not understand yet in Bitcointalk forum have local board for discussing from Bitcoin discussion until all rule needed in this forum. I am glad with beginner try to expose their self in global board and their mindset want to earn merit but in local board have many board or discussing post become merit source.
I think easily understand with native language than have to make discussion in global board where needed google translate for us English is not our mother language.

Ok OK, I thought you were referring to development at a technical level like some updates or some types of tools like Ninja had made. We also have the monthly overview charts made by Hamza2424 he is a hardworking dude. Spending his time in making all these and it really has helped us too, to identify how much we have progressed. But unfortunately, there are not that many members in our local community maybe that is why we are not getting any local board.

But the numbers are increasing slowly, and I hope at some time in the future we will be able to get our own board. Because one the board was made the members will automatically increase. Just like it increased when you got you. And I am happy for you guys. The overall, development in the posts and the number of members on BTT, did increase and you guys are really rocking and keep rocking it. I sometimes sneak onto your board and try to look at your overview section and the posts you guys are making and you are on some next level. And the support your OGs gave to newcomers is so generous.

It really indicates that having a local board can really help in learning and growth, but unfortunately we do not have any Local board yet, but trying our best to improve our stats to heat the request for the Local board again. Having local fellows a person feels more comfortable asking questions and learning from the seniors rather than asking from a person where Language, Region, and Tone barriers affect the conversation greatly.

To grow on the forum the best role is played by the local section as even if we don't have our local board yet on our local thread our community is aggressively active and we are performing much better than some of the boards in terms of merit contribution and in terms of activity.


Oh, here's my name that's so nice of you that you guys remember me in your thoughts, it really feels great while being discussed from any angle. Hmm, Rikafip always does much better I want to give credit to him for his contribution as my work is also inspired by him.

Many members here grew through the local board so I must say that the local board has so much importance here on an this platform. I have read many responses from members here and all  are actually correct and what they have said are the reality of what takes place at the local level.

I believe that the local board stand as a base to give a proper orientation to newbies and guiding them through the platform till they know the whereabouts of the platform. Newbies can freely relate with each other and share ideas with one another. As a matter of fact, problems can be easily resolved when ever there is any at hand. I believe all local boards have reputable members to guide them and listening to their fellow countrymen gives that feel at home vibes.

People who post in their local section can be identified by looking at their profile which country they belong to. 

The screenshot you shared is a bangla local board id, any local community will support you and help you move forward and if you don't understand something, they will explain you like a private tutor which is not usually available in the global section. I'm not saying global section bros don't help, I'm just implying that there is a huge difference between a private tutor and a school teacher. 
A private tutor will explain you personally, if you don't understand once, you will understand it in multiple ways, but this is not the case with a school teacher, a school teacher will explain you among many students in the class, then you find the difference, which one will you understand better, a private tutor or a school teacher. So as much help as possible from the local board but not so much help from the global section.

Usually, newbies prefer local boards, not only because they are already used to the language, but also the character of local boards will certainly be similar, because they come from the same country. Not to mention if the local board is very solid, it really helps to support each other. However, that doesn't mean it will be very easy, because after all it has to be a good post to deserve merits. So, you don't just get merit just like that.
I don't understand other countries, but as far as I know, on my local board, they are very solid in helping each other, discussing and so on. Unfortunately, for now, I personally still post more often globally.

Dear, you are a senior member of our community, how can I now know you, you share monthly reports with my name on them, and when I saw my name on them, I got motivated and started to think that next time I will do more and be in the top. Just as I did when I was in getting education, (school position system). I think my reply will be a little off-topic.

We all are motivated by someone, you are motivated by RF, and who knows who is motivated by you, it seems that I am motivated by you, maybe next time I will make such summary reports when I get to know how to do that, I know things are not that hard but it takes some time. And you are spending your time for us which is precious to me and maybe to our whole community.

I think op need to understand that not everybody has a local board where they can be getting merits from even though they keep spamming there. There are some local boards that has so many senior people that can be meriting them even with small efforts. When people associates with there local board, they can easily grow in the forum without much stress like others that don't have a local board or that are not interested posting in there local board. There are many ways to grow in this forum and one of the ways is to attach oneself with a local board to be recognized.

If a newbie is not good at speaking or writing in English language then the local board will be useful since the language that is used is your own language before you can join other discussions that are not in your local board (after learning English). If a newbie already knows English then there's a thread called Beginners & Help and there's also a thread that Ratimov have created where different topics are in there for newbies to check called Beginners & Help Encyclopedia.

I don't think the merit alone should be one of the reasons why one is asked to identify with his or her local board because any member who's interest depends on what they stand to get and not the level of information and knowledge that will be of benefit to them since most of the information they pass in the locals will be communicated in a language that will be well understood by the person. I think anyone who's doing a better good job on the forum be it in locals infact every section of the forum once the information is good such person won't find it difficult to interact with other forum members since the person has developed in writing and good communication.Member especially the newbies should see the local board as an avenue to learn things they find themselves not doing right because you have the opportunity to drop a question and get a fast response with a language that one can understand better.

Not just newbies but also higher ranks here in forum must keep in mind how importance the local boards is cause we all know that  local boards can helps one another in short once there's a member from their local boards who is native and only know little in universal language then they can make more good quality threads by posting in their local boards which is for sure their fellow countrymen will support them.

As much as I like the idea of having some sort of identity with your people on the forum and some of the benefits that come with it, which extends to having to look out for one another and it’s one of the reason you could find some other users on the forum requesting for a board of there own. Privacy remains a part of the cryptospace and that’s an idea that is promoted on the forum, an idea that having to identify with a local board don’t really patronize.

I would say we should subscribe to the idea of freedom to chose if one would like to identify or not for whatever reason that they feel suitable enough. Some users are stigmatized while others don’t like the community or idea of being bounded to a people. Let them be left alone and very much have there choice to decide how it goes for them.

It's not in the forum rules that it's mandatory for everyone to post on the local board, and nobody is forcing anyone to post there, it's just a matter of choice. If you don't want to post there, then you are not forced, and if you are interested in posting on the local board, that's also not a bad idea. Not all countries have a local board on the forum here, so if you are from a country that does not have a local board here, you don't have a choice but to maintain posting on the English board.

Local boards provide many benefits and are intended for all ranks, not just beginners. They are not for persons who cannot speak English effectively alone. Because some local events, which might be very helpful to both high-ranking and low-ranking members, are only posted on your local board and aren't always posted in other sections of the forum, I said that the local board is not just for people who don't speak English fluently. You have to be aware of local events as they happen.

Language may be one of the obstacles for someone to develop and in fact the local council will be the most rational place for beginners to learn the ins and outs of bitcoin. There it is easier for us to communicate with users who have the same language because not everyone is able to speak fluent English.

I see so many people benefiting from local boards, both their knowledge of bitcoin and their way up the ranks and that's where it's easier to discuss things. If we can speak English there are many good posts globally and there are many people there who might be able to provide education regarding bitcoin, information about wallets and forum developments regarding improvements made by Theymos. I also have to agree as you said that local boards are one medium that can help beginners to develop in the forum.

At least what they have done is a good one because that motivates members to be.much active at local board contributing immensely to the growth and development of the local board. Since Igebotz began the monthly overview coupled with CryptopreneurBrainboss assistance in awarding the best posters on our local board, the community grew with lots of engagements and activities from already existing members and inflow of new members as well. This is not just a plus to the Nigeria board but also a plus to the Bitcointalk community because the traffic increased tremendously in addition to the previous which already exists and increasing more competition amongst Local boards to strive for more contributions and development to the platform.