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Title: New Feature for India forum Post by: BitCoinDream on May 25, 2014, 10:06:13 AM We just got a new feature for India forum...
https://bitcointalk.org/in now redirects to https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=89.0 :) Details here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=623907.0 Title: Re: New Feature for India forum Post by: skang on May 27, 2014, 09:19:47 AM Good work BitCoinDream but this is not even peanuts.
Theymos accepted 6000 BTC in donations to upgrade this forum but kept it all for himself. Morever this forum even got hacked cause he didn't even update the forum software. 6000 BTC is a lot to build a replacement to this shitty forum, with some much needed features. Anyways, personally I feel it is good because Theymos also owns the bitcoin wiki in addition to bitcointalk.org and 'centralization is bad' for bitcoin. I want people to move away from here and form their own communities. Decentralize people! I think our mod here, Benson Samuel, should agree with me since he is a member of GBA Alliance that stands against the mighty Bitcoin Foundation. If you look at it, very few number of people (less than 10) control the majority of bitcoin channels. Theymos, FriedCat, TheBitcoinFoundation each are very rich, powerful and closed. This kind of centralization should be alarming. Title: Re: New Feature for India forum Post by: Benson Samuel on May 27, 2014, 11:19:36 AM Good work BitCoinDream but this is not even peanuts. Theymos accepted 6000 BTC in donations to upgrade this forum but kept it all for himself. Morever this forum even got hacked cause he didn't even update the forum software. 6000 BTC is a lot to build a replacement to this shitty forum, with some much needed features. Anyways, personally I feel it is good because Theymos also owns the bitcoin wiki in addition to bitcointalk.org and 'centralization is bad' for bitcoin. I want people to move away from here and form their own communities. Decentralize people! I think our mod here, Benson Samuel, should agree with me since he is a member of GBA Alliance that stands against the mighty Bitcoin Foundation. If you look at it, very few number of people (less than 10) control the majority of bitcoin channels. Theymos, FriedCat, TheBitcoinFoundation each are very rich, powerful and closed. This kind of centralization should be alarming. the domain for bitcointalk.org is owned by Sirius, if I am not wrong. The forums do run on a decentralized organization structure with theymos in hold of the wallet. I honestly cannot see a better way of doing this without complicating the kitty out of it. But I can see a bunch of things happening in the back end such as an addition of automated ad slots, etc.. So hopefully these will come forward quite soon to add some value to the forums. However, there is a dire need for more initiatives such as the forum or the wiki in order to maintain a decentralized approach. While quite a few have tried to start new ones, nothing has really come close to what we have here. Title: Re: New Feature for India forum Post by: Fernandez on May 29, 2014, 06:11:21 AM Theymos accepted 6000 BTC in donations to upgrade this forum but kept it all for himself. Morever this forum even got hacked cause he didn't even update the forum software. 6000 BTC! What is he even doing here now? This forum also runs on an operating profit by selling ad space. Title: Re: New Feature for India forum Post by: sumana on May 29, 2014, 03:01:28 PM 6000 BTC! What is he even doing here now? This forum also runs on an operating profit by selling ad space. Title: Re: New Feature for India forum Post by: Fernandez on June 01, 2014, 06:33:20 AM 6000 BTC! What is he even doing here now? This forum also runs on an operating profit by selling ad space. Even then it should still be enough to run on ads. I read sometimes back the ads are quite expensive. Title: Re: New Feature for India forum Post by: BitCoinDream on June 01, 2014, 10:17:19 AM 6000 BTC! What is he even doing here now? This forum also runs on an operating profit by selling ad space. Even then it should still be enough to run on ads. I read sometimes back the ads are quite expensive. Here you get the details of ad slots sold in the last round of auction (May 29, 2014) by the forum admin => https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=614810.msg7007100#msg7007100 Quote Auction ended. Final result: Slots BTC/Slot Person 1 5.50 Zoomhash_michael 4 5.05 BITMAIN 3 5.00 FXO Title: Re: New Feature for India forum Post by: Fernandez on June 03, 2014, 05:19:39 AM 6000 BTC! What is he even doing here now? This forum also runs on an operating profit by selling ad space. Even then it should still be enough to run on ads. I read sometimes back the ads are quite expensive. Here you get the details of ad slots sold in the last round of auction (May 29, 2014) by the forum admin => https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=614810.msg7007100#msg7007100 Quote Auction ended. Final result: Slots BTC/Slot Person 1 5.50 Zoomhash_michael 4 5.05 BITMAIN 3 5.00 FXO 5 BTC for a month? Not bad, but its a waste on somebody using adblock like me. Title: Re: New Feature for India forum Post by: skang on June 07, 2014, 12:09:41 PM 6000 BTC! What is he even doing here now? This forum also runs on an operating profit by selling ad space. Even then it should still be enough to run on ads. I read sometimes back the ads are quite expensive. Here you get the details of ad slots sold in the last round of auction (May 29, 2014) by the forum admin => https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=614810.msg7007100#msg7007100 Quote Auction ended. Final result: Slots BTC/Slot Person 1 5.50 Zoomhash_michael 4 5.05 BITMAIN 3 5.00 FXO 5 BTC for a month? Not bad, but its a waste on somebody using adblock like me. Theymos's work with ads is suspicious as well. Even after it was public information that BFL is a scam, theymos ran BFL ads on this forum. He is the moderator for reddit's r\bitcoin as well and even there allegedly he included malicious links which scammed noobs off their btc; it was right there in the sidebar ! Title: Re: New Feature for India forum Post by: newIndia on June 08, 2014, 02:21:15 PM 6000 BTC! What is he even doing here now? This forum also runs on an operating profit by selling ad space. Even then it should still be enough to run on ads. I read sometimes back the ads are quite expensive. Here you get the details of ad slots sold in the last round of auction (May 29, 2014) by the forum admin => https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=614810.msg7007100#msg7007100 Quote Auction ended. Final result: Slots BTC/Slot Person 1 5.50 Zoomhash_michael 4 5.05 BITMAIN 3 5.00 FXO 5 BTC for a month? Not bad, but its a waste on somebody using adblock like me. I think it is weekly auction and the total collection is 15+ BTC. But can u block the forum ads with your adblock ? Does not the posts get blocked too if u try to block forum ads ?Which ad blocker u r using by the way ? Title: Re: New Feature for India forum Post by: deadley on June 08, 2014, 05:10:45 PM 6000 BTC! What is he even doing here now? This forum also runs on an operating profit by selling ad space. Even then it should still be enough to run on ads. I read sometimes back the ads are quite expensive. Here you get the details of ad slots sold in the last round of auction (May 29, 2014) by the forum admin => https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=614810.msg7007100#msg7007100 Quote Auction ended. Final result: Slots BTC/Slot Person 1 5.50 Zoomhash_michael 4 5.05 BITMAIN 3 5.00 FXO 5 BTC for a month? Not bad, but its a waste on somebody using adblock like me. I think it is weekly auction and the total collection is 15+ BTC. But can u block the forum ads with your adblock ? Does not the posts get blocked too if u try to block forum ads ?Which ad blocker u r using by the way ? Only Senior and Hero member can ad block, normal user cant. |