Bitcoin Forum

Title says it all. Why is it down?

The original site is bitcoin.org, and it is up at the moment

Yup. That's true. I think that the .com one was also managed by MtGox

First of all the original website is bitcoin.org , not bitcoin.com. And wtf why do you care about bitcoin.com if it's a fake one?

bitcoin.com is back up, at least in my part of the world.
It has the new design and is managed by blockchain.info.

Yes it is managed by Blockchain. I read awhile back that they were ultimately planning on moving the wallets to bitcoin.com in the future...

its just the website is down.

the coin is decentralized and is always up.  that's the beauty of bitcoin.

blockchain.info is one of the most useful and (almost) famous .info sites on the web. You don't see many 'real' sites using .info.
If they are eventually switching their services to bitcoin.com, I'm sure it will help them become a more valuable business.

I believe a few other mainstream informational sites are also using info, e.g. www.CurrentScore.info is one of the popular soccer score portal in India.

By the way, bitcoin.com is now owned by Roger Ver of blockchain.info


bitcoins.com is owned by MK

Bitcoin.com is a shit site.  Blockchain can do much better.

Get on this Andreas!!!    8)

OMG!!! some people are still using bitcoin.com , well, I'm surprized:-X

It's funny how bitcoin.com uses the Symbol nobody(at least on this Forum) wants.
All that bitcoin.com seems to do is link to https://blockchain.info/ and http://mobile.zeroblock.com/

bitcoin.com is the bitcoin site if bitcoin have been lauched at the end of 1990's

and it is very much possible they have malware in the wallets they offer

Bitcoin.com was purchased by kerples in 90s, blockchain is managing bitcoin.com, omfg can this mean that pig mark is satoshi???

I think the redesign they did to bitcoin.com was piss poor. With a domain name like that, you'd think the site would be half decent!

I wonder how much that domain is worth now?   :o

I wonder where did u get the info that bitcoin.com was purchased by MK in 90s ? MK is 29 years old and he was in skul then. Looks like I need to start a website named falsebitcoin.info to correct you guys !!! ::)

Now they are running a forum on it, at forum.bitcoin.com, trying to compete BitcoinTalk.

Probably won't be very competitive until they start offering signature campaigns on there. And the site sort of sucks, Ver wastes too much money on bad design decisions.

Wow, they're not even hiding the fact they're copying bitcointalk... Even section names are pretty much the same.

They're offering 4 BTC for the best post :D

problably less than when the price was 1200, so who is owning it, is waiting for a better tiem to sell

at least i know i would not sell it now

Roger Ver own it now. It seems he has no plan to sell it. Instead, he is building business around it by leasing subdomains.

I don't understand, why this splitting of the community? This is bad for the whole Bitcoin ecosystem. We don't need 10 freaking forums, we need to unite all of together on one forum.

I think that we already have enough of the competition outside of the Bitcoin space for us to waste energy between us in this way.

Bitcointalk is the first and the oldest one. We need everybody here, together!

Bicoin.com got full redesign it seems

If you look around the internet, once a technology grows and becomes more popular, it's only natural for other sites to open up and compete. To the owner's credit, they do have a better layout than us.

If they were earlier they would probably get more users just because of the domain name alone, but it's a bit late now.

They might still get more newbies interested in Bitcoin that are trying to find informations about the Bitcoin. People sometimes just go ahead and type in something.com if they want to find additional info about a thing.

I wouldn't be surprised if there will be people copying very high quality posts from here and paste it there in order to win  :D What a joke, paying people $1K to make the forum seem active. After that, the forum there will be silent as fck as there is nothing more to gain.


For most people this domain has a certain value. But if you are planning to actually give the domain real usage, then it is worth even more as there isn't a better domain than bitcoin.com. I can see this domain fetch $100K easily at this point.

I think you pritty visited the wrong site the real site is bitcoin.org and it is always updated and always runing even you can check its sourse code in github

I think his plan is to grow the site as much  as possible until bitcoin is something HUGE and then sell it for X amount of $.

True, but most people that look a bit will find that this forum has many more users.

things change fast in tech. I remember when google didn't exist and yahoo was number one search engine. Now gool has 60% and yahoo doesnt have anything.  just saying anything can happen.

I sincerely hope that bitcoin.com's forum does not grow over BCT. I doubt that it will, but like you said, anything is possible.

I hope that it does and that it gets filled with brand new users, not the bitcointalk users. This would mean that Bitcoin adoption is happening in amazing pace and I am sure that this forum would get a boost of new users as well in this case.

Well some of the more reputable bitcointalk users had better get on over there and claim their usernames. Otherwise scammers might take the names and pretend to be reputable members and scam people.

Good advice. Although I'm not a reputable user, I don't want someone to run around with my nickname there ;)

Also good to have an "aged" account there in case the forum will take off big time.

nothing wrong with that. Healthy Competition imo

Bitcoin users, by nature, hate centralization.  Having one forum is centralized.  It would be nice if there was a second popular one, but they are hard to run when politics gets involved.

you can also see it as marketing. they have to earn a place in this market as it is beyond difficult to come even close to bitcointalk. offering rewards may get people interested to join them.

You are wrong, there is no splitting. forum.bitcoin.com (http://forum.bitcoin.com) is open to anyone to express his opinion concerning  the bitcoin, It is a democratic forum that respects the opinions of the users,that in any case the purpose is not to disorient the users,but leave them choose for themselves what will follow in one or more issues concerning bitcoin..

yes it down for a while until now?
and what is the officiall bitcoin site?

just checked it out and i've found the site is in normal condition , probably there's problem in your internet connection or your browser  :D

Looks like it has a few users there but considering I didn't know it existed it likely has no PR
The site is working fine though

it was just launched 2-3 weeks ago. alot of improvements will be added over the course of the next months.

all in all i think it is good that bitcoin has another forum where people can discuss freely.

you should register your username too  ;)

Last time when i have visited bitcoin.com out of curisity it have redirected me to bitcoin.me but today when i see the title and check it, i was amazed to see bitcoin wallet site. I think domain has been recently bought.

its up https://www.bitcoin.com/

Give it some time. Everything that just starts out is shiny, BitcoinTalk has run for years without problems. Problems will inevitably show up down the line, it something that comes with the territory of having an extremely large userbase.

thought they need some extra works to compete bitcointalk , and one thing that they must have , signature campaign  :D

It was bought by Roger Ver. He is trying to run it as an alternative community site.

They have a funny sense of humor... They promote freedom of speech and limited privacy? {Look at all the tracking features that are built into that sites} What's up with that?

It has a lot of potential, because it's backed by money and it has a very good domain. I wonder if Mark still owns that domain? I guess a lot of the old users, who lost some money on MtGox will be very hesitant to

invest time in a site that was or are owned by Mark.  ???

I have been a moderator for a Bitcoin related site for a while now, and with little funding we struggled... just imagine what a site will be like, if it has access to funding for promotions / lucky draws etc. etc...

It will grow... Mark my words. {excuse the pun}  ;D

I can tell that there are to many months that the price of bitcoin is almost stable. The few fluctuations had from bitcoin these months are more than normal for a currency. If will continue in this way it will be boring because the people want to see its increase of value.  ;) But is not going down. Maybe the time when was made the main post was a period of being down but even this down wouldn't has been to much. You can follow from the below chart the price of bitcoin since the January of this year and you will see yourself the above I write.

https://i.imgur.com/IL5r1iG.png