Bitcoin Forum

Want to join a p2p Bitcoin Forum? First, download the p2p portal software, osiris (http://osiris-sps.org/introduction). Then, once you have it running fine, click one of the links in my signature to join either the anarchy forum, or the monarchy forum. The anarchy forum has no admins or mods. It's self moderated through a reputation system. The monarchy forum has admins and mods. Have fun!

Also: No newbie restrictions!

If I may make a suggestion, consider ditching the monarchy forum and just try to get most people posting in Anarchy. The prudes can find their own way.

I think the anarchy one will be really nice, and I'd like to just delete the monarchy one, but it's not entirely my decision. paraipan, slush, and I built these forums together, so I don't feel I have the right to make that decision.

This looks very interesting - I just joined the 2 forums. We need to get everything around Bitcoin decentralized.

http://retroshare.sourceforge.net is also an open-source p2p project to communicate together. I've not tried Retroshare and I can't say how comparable the ideas behind Retroshare and Osiris are - I just hope that the open-source community does bundle their forces and doesn't invent the wheel twice - just a thought.

i like the idea, but i don't think that it will work. information anarchy, is not productive.

The responsibility of delivering information is that of the contributor, not the moderator. This, and general information and education are separate things. Let the moderators educate. If you're just sharing information between several parties and choose to exclude an additional party, there's always an 'ignore'.

Its really quite awesome, although you should probably minimize the number of categories, and expand out when it gets more popular.