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So we not surprise when elon reach into his deep pocket to buy twitter in billion dollar. Because he have unlimited money.

I was imagine when he find this forum that look unique because Satoshi was create this forum like he create bitcoin, 
and after he look unique and look philanthropy then he want to buy this forum,

are you guy agree if Elon buy bitcointalk forum?,
that look superior if bitcointalk owned by a richest person like elon.

No, Elon Musk is most likely driven by financial gain and not by the ideology and ideas that allowed Bitcoin to exist.
People in the current administration of this forum at least share the values of Satoshi and were here from the beginning, while Bitcoin was tagged as scam, ponzi and dark currency, they still believe in the vision of decentralized money and that (in my opinion) is not for sale.

No, he won't want to buy Bitcointalk, never.

Because bitcointalk is not a fancy platform to build connections and shill your posts to walls, notifications of other users who are in or not in your connection/ friend/ follower list.

It is different than social media platforms like Facebook or Twitter when your notifications will be spammed with many statuses and tweets from others.

Bitcointalk is not a place for Elon Musk to play with his jokes that he always loves to do.

If someone tried to buy bitcointalk, they'd probably be rejected so that's the first hurdle a perspective buyer would have to deal with on their reputation.

The second and probably more important issue is that this forum is being tested to run in a more open source way receiving a lot of collaborations from volunteers, if there was a for profit motive of the forum, you're going to be a lot less likely to keep those volunteers working here and stopping them from making a rival.

Also, advertisers on Bitcointalk had to jump through a lot of hoops to do it and were still doing that while advertisers on twitter didn't and many left very early on when it changed owners.

He is not so rich that money is unlimited, even though he is the richest man in the world, he does not always have billions of dollars in his bank account. In the acquisition of twitter, in addition to selling off Tesla shares, he also received a lot of help from other shareholders, including CZ.



He doesn't love crypto as many people think, he buys twitter all for his business benefit, not for bitcoin or doge. Don't think that he is the savior of the market. He can buy TW, can buy Facebook... but I never thought he would think of buying bitcointalk, it's not beneficial for his business.

Elon wants publicity like Justin Sun. He'd be more interested in a platform where billions of people on it interested in trolling than bitcointalk which has particular visitors more interested in crypto discussion. The demographics ain't perfect for his company or EV promotion.

Bitcointalk is not for regular people actually. You'll know this if you try introducing this forum to local forums. Unless Elon has his own Bitcoin casino.

I am sure Elon Musk is not going to be interested in buying a forum that is focused on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general. Remember that Elon Musk is a businessman...he will not get into anything if the possible return on investment is not going to be high. He bought Twitter because he can see its potential to add more financial clout on his part and I can feel that he is also looking at it like a toy that can boost his popularity and reach of audience. He will not gain those if he is the owner of this forum. Besides, this forum is not for sale, anyway.

First and foremost, Bitcointalk is not a money-making machine, so I doubt Elon would be interested in this forum. Second, this forum is a Bitcoin-centered site and Elon is not really a big fan of it, so I don't think he would be drawn toward this idea.

But since this is a question of if, I don't agree if Elon is going to buy it. He would only be turning this forum into something else we won't probably like. But then, of course, my agreement doesn't matter, although I think many would also be opposing it.

No, new ownership will give birth to some new rules. Elon Musk is a reliable businessman, of course everything really depends on financial gain. His ideology is very different from those on the Bitcointalk forum, he is not fit to be the owner of Bitcointalk even though he has a lot of money to buy it.
Satoshi has designed Bitcointalk so beautifully, he dedicated the Bitcointalk forum to us, so Bitcointalk is not for sale.

Bitcointalk is like the other forum out there but the difference is Satoshi created Bitcointalk for the next discussion about bitcoin. I can not imagine what Bitcointalk would be if he bought Bitcointalk. Maybe he will spread his propaganda or his dirty plan to people. I really hope that he does not want to buy Bitcointalk. But as a businessman, Elon may try to search for other things that can make him more popular than buying Bitcointalk so I do not see that he will be interested in buying Bitcointalk.

I don't think though Elon is be interested on bitcointalk, what will he gain if he buy this community? Remember that he is a business man and everything he buy has some business narrative behind, so I doubt that he will earn big by acquiring bitcointalk.

And Theymos or the one that has control of this won't allow it I speculate.

With that said, I will or doesn't want Elon to buy, and if that happen, not sure what will happen to this community.

First of all Satoshi won’t approve this.

He won't be interested in bitcointalk forum. What is he going to achieve by taking over the forum? Nothing. Twitter is going to make him money, but this forum isn't going to make him anything. If he was interested in the forum to make it a "better" place, he could just make a new account and start giving suggestions and that is it. He would be saving himself millions of dollars.

Anyway, if he did want to buy the forum, I doubt anyone would agree to sell it.

I do not remember reading or hearing that Elon Musk has any interest in this forum at all, after all to me he is not someone that is interested in any kind of ideology and he is only interested in making a lot of money, but even if at some point in the future Elon Musk or some other billionaire shows interest in buying this forum for some reason they will have to convince theymos to sell it, something which will not be easy at all if not outright impossible.

1. Elon is wealthy but he doesn't have "unlimited" money
2. Elon wouldn't be interested in Bitcointalk
3. We don't need to agree nor disagree if Elon wants to buy Bitcointalk because we don't own it. It will totally depend on Theymos

 Not gonna happen mate, Elon will not be interested on a forum like this, its really different platform compared from social medias like Twitter, Facebook I dont know the reason why Elon bought twitter maybe for money making machine or for just for helping humanity which he was talking lately, We all know that twitter is one of the largest social media today and more people are using it to share information publicly in a more faster way, which maybe Elon wants.

I Think, it will not happen in future or recent. I didn’t see any news about buy bitcoin. This is totally different any others social media. If it will happen then everyone will be surprise. He is most valuable person in investment.If he would be interested then he gives us news share his Twitter. So we will be get this news from twitter.

I do not agree, and I see that this is just a rumor. In fact, Elon Musk is a businessman looking for investments that make his capital multiply quickly and looking for innovation and wants his voice and proposals to reach his fans around the world, so he bought Twitter because it is a global social platform that includes businessmen and communities in all industries and not only in cryptocurrency, I do not see any real reason why Elon would buy a Bitcointalk forum, although this forum is a unique and old forum and has a large community of investors and traders of cryptocurrencies and projects, and it is the source of Bitcoin that was created by the founder Satoshi, but for Elon, I think that buying a forum is not from his real goals.

Elon Musk bought Twitter so that he can gain a tremendous power on public opinion and with the US government. As they say in democracies: if you control public opinion, you control the public. And public opinion is formed (and brainwashed) through the social media on top of mainstream media. Having control over one of the biggest social media outlets gives Musk a lot of power.

Bitcointalk on the other hand is a forum for discussion not for forming the public opinion. It is not giving Musk any benefits even if he had control over it. Not to mention that bitcoiners already have a negative opinion of him because of his FUDs and altcoin scams.

First, you need to tell why do you think he will buy back bitcointalk? he is an entrepreneur not a pure investor or a crypto trader. Twitter can be profitable and a lot of benefits for him but with bitcointalk definitely not. In other words, twitter and bitcointalk are not the same, bitcointalk is not a place that can make a profit for someone's business but twitter was created for that purpose.

Bitcointalk is not for regular people actually, what do you mean? I think the forum is for all those, who love crypto and especially bitcoin. It's not just for gambling enthusiasts.

This will not be a good thing for the Bitcoin community, when a Free speech platform get into the hands of someone that wants to control "free speech" to gain profit. Yes, Theymos might profit from advertisements ...but I believe most of the money goes into the operating expenses of this forum.

The forum will also receive too much "negative" attention, if a high profile business tycoon like Elon Musk shows interest in this forum. Let's keep this simple ... "Talk about Bitcoin and related topics" and leave the rich people to play with rockets and electric cars.  ;)

elon is not bank account the richest guy in the world
elon is valuation on paper richest

this is because when someone pays just a couple hundred dollars for 1 share, it changes the valuation of all shares, even if only 1 share is traded
the companies he owns VALUATIONS are not the same as the amount of money in the bank
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Elon is not a micro investor that only buys into a small community or industry.
he sees the big picture deals that stretch across many industries

did you know that he wanted to mine asteroid gold decades ago
he wants to be the service guy offering electric moon cars to colonists. drills to miners and rockets to the space transport industries

all his things like:
boring (tunnels for underground road networks)
solar (to charge electric vehicles)
tesla(electric cars)
space X(rockets)

are all just R7D projects for mining in space. yes while developing these he is profiting by selling his products to us earthlings on the ground

but the ultimate plan that has been in the works for decades is using all of these research products as a final speace mining project

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bitcoin talk is not a community that discuss things of wide mutly industry implications. its not even a wide userbase, and advertising again limited to the community we are in.

there is no big picture multi industry business reason to buy bitcoin ta;lk for elon

space is a wide open void, where just communicating from earth to mars is upto 20 minutes delayed
blockchain synchronisation to stay at blockheight of any blockchain is not really viable
coins with a 30second block would be out of sync by 40+ blocks by the time they reach mars, even bitcoin with the longest blocktime of 10mins would be out of sync by 2 blocks.

elon for his earth based personal investment(he personally does not want to be in space as a colonist) likes crypto for its earth based utility.. but its not one for space based utility

Even Elon Musk offer few billion dollars to buy Bitcointalk, I'm pretty sure theymos wouldn't want to sold Bitcointalk to him since he's not looking to make money through this forum. He did paused the auction that advertise on Bitcointalk via forum ads because he said he already have enough money to pay the hosting and moderators fees [1] so it's impossible for theymos to sell this forum to Elon Musk.

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[1] https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5407725.msg60976136#msg60976136

Well, anything is possible, but I'm curious about who will transfer the domain name server and hosting server to him. Is it Satoshi or Theymos? If it's Satoshi then that's not impossible by anymeans because he cannot be contacted.

Well, that's too far ahead to think of such thing because Elon will never going to be interested in Bitcointalk, as this community were only limited to the people who's interest is very common "Cryptocurrency" alone.
If miraculously, Elon grows an interest in this community, he will most probably going to change his mind eventually, especially when after he finds out that half or more of the users here were against him and doesn't likely to be influenced to what everything his mind says.

OP what if Elon Musk decides to buy your community ? This forum is not like other social media that everything goes on,it was created for the knowledge of cryptocurrency Bitcoin by Satoshi which makes it not welcoming to so many people that don't even know or heard of Bitcoin. Elon is a business man and will not want to invest in something that he wouldn't benefit from or make profit from.

Hehehe, Elon setting his eyes on this forum? A highly unlikely happenstance. Like everyone has said, he only goes for what rakes in money and at present, the purchase of Twitter really did a number on his account and his looking to make it up, hence his strident measures and changes.

 Inasmuch as he is an eccentric and spontaneous businessman, he's also calculative and profit driven. So if wants to claim ownership of the Bitcoin forum, you'd have to ask, what does he stand to gain?

No, he doesn't. And as a fun fact, it can happen (in a distant future) that Bitcointalk treasury will be richer than Elon. How about that?


Were you asked if you agree Twitter to be sold to Elon?
However, I'll be nice and will answer: no, I would not agree. Elon would change the forum in ways I would most probably not like.
Plus, he (and many agencies and other fat wallets) would have access to private information they should not.


Not at all. You should stop living in fairy tales and realize than not everything he touches becomes superior.

Even if he wants to buy the forum, it's all up to the themoys, not him so I think there's nothing to be afraid of, but it's interesting this OP's thought. Like everyone here, I wouldn't think Elon would buy the forum because it has nothing to do with his current job. This is a forum dedicated to crypto lovers, not a vast social network like Twitter. Maybe he will buy back bitcointalk if he is a real crypto investor and his work is related to crypto.

Wonderful. Your answer made me laugh heartily ;D. In addition to what you said, Elon fires the entire staff and then warns everyone that the forum is on the verge of ruin and orders everyone to work harder. KYC will also be introduced for verification, and alternative accounts will come to an end. As a result, users will massively move to another new forum, which will become like today's but without Elon Musk's rules. (As is happening now with Twitter users.)
But seriously speaking, I think that Musk has really great opportunities, and he can afford to buy any toy. There is nothing in this world that is not for sale. Another question is whether Musk needs it. As long as he has Twitter and Musk is trying to make it what he wants, I think other purchases will not be interesting.

It's not actually theymos who will decide on this matter since he just in charge on overseeing the forum but the ownership still belongs to Siriur or Satoshi since they are the one who founded this forum and the transfer of responsibility is just done due to absence of the owner. This forum is for the public and I’m sure theymos will not gonna decide on this matter because the answer is already determined and no need for a decision.

Twitter is chaotic with bunch of hypocrits and probably worst than shit poster here in the forum. Let just cancerous vibes stay on twitter and keeps the forum safe.

BTT looks ugly and nobody would want to buy it. Besides, it has a 5-digit Alexa rating, an almighty fall from the 3000-ish rank it has during the ICO heyday. In other words, there is not much traffic coming here compared to other platforms.

why the hell would Musk want to buy a forum that would bring him no financial gains? Moreover, do you actually think that the guys running the forum would allow it? The forum is driven by people who want to pass along everything that Bitcoin represents, and it is not centralization which would be what would happen in case Elon Musk boought the forum.

I actually like the old-school look. Only thing i would improve is mobile support.

Instead of thinking of buying it, I think that he'll flex with a newbie account and has a donator tag on it. Yes, the same amount of donation that the early members have made.
And if converted to the price right now, you do the calculations and that's what I think that he'll do instead of the idea of buying the forum. He can do that and spend the free money that he's got in his deep pockets.

Elon Musk is a businessman, he likes to buy what will give him profits. Look at the way he changes Twitter from being free to a paid social media($8 for a verified account). If Elon Musk mistakenly buys Btt forum will he charge for the post we make here? Probably he will. Every businessman has a way to get his money back from the investment they make.

In short, this forum is not for sale. Selling this forum will jeopardize what this forum stands for(help in educating, and spreading awareness of crypto and knowledge to the whole world)

This will never happen, Elon Musk is looking for profit in everything he deals with, and there are a lot of ideological people here, so he will not be able to get what he needs here. I am sure that he have known about this forum for a long time, but he does not even have an account here (I think so), so yourself understand what interest he has in bitcointalk.

Twitter and Bitcointalk aren't the same.

Elon Musk can get profits from Twitter. Can he get profit from Bitcointalk if the worst thing happens, and he bought it? Maybe he can get profit from advertisements coming from different website but overall, I don't see Theymos selling the forum to some weird businessman like Elon Musk. I don't see Theymos selling the forum for no important reason, and it will be a disgrace since this forum was created by Satoshi. I mean the value of this forum is way higher than any might think here.

Elon would not purchase items if he could not profit from it or if he have a brilliant idea for it. The probability of Elon buying this forum is too low; instead of buying this forum, he will just spend it to buy more bitcoins. I don't really see any reason that can trigger Elon to buy this, unless this is some kind of social media, like recently when he bought Twitter, which he spends ton of cash. We still don't know how he can profit from it, but I am sure that he is using Twitter to earn money or use it in his future projects.

There's even a higher tendency for him to pay someone to build his own community platform because he has the money and popularity to do so, than to settle in this forum. Also, I think elon musk is targeting non-crypto users more because the things he would state will easily drive them crazy of following his 'calls' unlikely of crypto-inclined people who'd criticize some of his decisions on which is which, in terms of investment. I doubt as well that the owner of this forum would sell this easily, especially if he/she is earning enough from multiple projects being released weekly or more frequent. Also, if we would somehow 'read' his mind, he'd go directly for things which will generate bigger profit or power perhaps, to save him time.

Elon could prefer Reddit to the Bitcointalk forum, in my opinion. Additionally, I doubt he would be interested in purchasing the forum unless he can generate billions of dollars in profits each month for shareholders. Furthermore, considering his larger than life personality, Elon wouldn't buy the forum because it wouldn't give him as much publicity  and high he needs to feed his ego as it should considering that the forum is sort of semi-closed.

You know, first, let's find out why Elon Musk bought the Twitter platform. I think the reason why he bought it is that Twitter has 340M-350M followers or more worldwide at this time. Then he plans to have an 8$ monthly payment for each of their users of this platform. Just say that only 1/4 of the followers will be active there who will pay 8$/monthly, do you think that is a small amount for Elon Musk?

Now my question to you is, how many followers or members do you think this bitcointalk forum has in the whole world today? It didn't even reach 100k community members here dude.

I don't know what's going on in your brain, but as some say here, Elon Musk won't waste his time on this in my opinion, so if Elon Musk buys it even if he knows it's impossible, it will come out like a run this forum that has a monthly bill as he does with Twitter apps, and I also think that the creator of this forum will not agree to such a thing because Elon musk will not know about bitcoin or cryptocurrency if it is not also about Blockchain technology this forum is the source as far as I know.

Twitter is control above the citizens,  but Bitcointalk can be control over bitcoin. So if he wants to control. Over bitcoin, it would be a start to acquire the forum. But they day he would be allowed to do that I will stop using the forum and I guess luckily nobody would sell him the forum.

Is this data accurate? because from what I heard our forum has 3 million users, 100k is probably an extremely modest number compared to other platforms.


About Elon buying the forum, I think that will never happen, I have a feeling OP is idolizing Elon too much and thinking he is a crypto enthusiast. From what I can see, I can tell that Elon is not passionate about crypto, what he is passionate about is anything that can be profitable for him. Like he uses Doge to make money, but I believe that at some point when doge is no longer profitable for him, he will look for another token.

It looks like that will never happen and Elon Musk is going to buy something he thinks is making a lot of money, is this forum going to make him a lot of money?
and besides that I'm sure many members or influential people in this forum disagree, this is a forum where we learn and discuss crypto, not what Elon Musk wants like social media that can make him a lot of money. He is a savvy entrepreneur whose only goal is to make a lot of money and the bitcointalk forums are not his target unless his goal is just to screw him up but that is impossible.

If he buys, he will buy more bitcoins instead of buying this forum, Elon doesn't care about beauty or uniqueness, the only thing he wants is profit. Buying the forum will certainly not bring any big profit enough for him to be satisfied. He bought twitter for his many purposes and not for dogecoin, see how he is changing twitter, if it works it will really bring a lot of profit to him, that is his goal.

It will be a sad day indeed when my favorite website gets bought by that egomaniac. He will without a doubt not understand how this forum was created and our culture and morals. He will definitely ruin it. But then again this is all hypothetical. He has not declared anything about buying Bitcointalk nor any other forum websites. And I do not see why he would. Hopefully we will be left in peace from Elon Musk or any other people like him.

This forum is historical in crypto. You don't want it owned by someone who has no concern about it and may possibly change history if ever he acquires it. You may wake up one day, satoshi's account will be linked to CSW's email. That will be a disastrous day.

Who knows what he will do later, blue check for a verified KYCed account? Many forumboards died in the past because they changed hands.

I don't think Elon musk acquiring Bitcointalk will be of any importance.
Just take a look at Twitter that he just purchased he's already implementing $8/month for the blue tick account.
I don't see him as someone who's really interested in the betterment of humanity but as a rich dude who's constantly looking for ways to drain away the little cash that the poor has left with them.
Instead of fixing his planet he decide to create a new one isn't that the definition of craziness.

People who are so talented and so rich they don't think about helping someone or saving the planet, they want to create their own planet where they have complete dominion. But I dont believe he will buy this forum because in fact, twitter will benefit him as it is a social network with hundreds of millions of users and thousands of advertisers on it, bitcointalk was too small for Twitter to get his attention.

No, firstly we like privacy, most users like me want some privacy while talking about cryptocurrency and bitcoin.
If Elon buys bitcointalk then there is no privacy left, he will treat this forum like social media, and this isn't social media.

Secondly, Elon will not be interested in bitcointalk, because he buys twitter for profit, not for dignity, for him there is no business so he will pass bitcointalk.

If theymos sells the forum to that troll, I'll never post here again.

Have you kissed his feet yet? I'm really amazed people are fans of this rich guy, who does not have the same interests as you. None of what he does is in your interest!

I don't think Elon Musk will be interested in buying this Forum, because here is a Forum where the community shares knowledge about crypto, not a place to socialize for the silliness he makes, and of course this Forum is not known by many people from various walks of life.  Elon Musk already has a lot of money from various businesses, all he needs is just to enjoy it all by entertaining himself on social media, but being able to be in the public eye for everyone to see.  This forum is too serious for an Elon so he can only monitor to develop his business and is not suitable for him to have

yes he has so much money it seems like unlimited money but since he bought twitter a lot of twitter employees are quitting because they can't stand the way he runs the company so sometimes having money doesn't mean people will stay near you, at least many employees who resigned are showing this


look at the guy, he's the type of person who buys things for profit and fame, if he bought this forum he wouldn't gain anything, he doesn't even know if satoshi is one person or several people, so he has no reason to he buy this forum. he bought bitcoin because he knows that in the future he will make a profit, that's why he bought bitcoin, not to mention that when buying bitcoin he became news, that is, he gained more fame than he already has. and all about making the profit and fame that these rich people do. when they do charity they call the press to film and take pictures because even in this act that should be a noble act they take advantage of it to appear in the news


the guy only thinks about the money, some people even thought that with the purchase of twitter some things would change for the better, but everything is getting worse, they only think about the money and from what I see he is not the type of guy who will give people freedom in the twitter

Judging by what he seems to like pumping mostly, he’d probably be more keen to destroy take over this other site (https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php).

Now seriously, what good can a person like that really do on a site that values the (quasi) privacy of its Members? You can bet that whatever data is recollected (https://bitcointalk.org/privacy.php) would be exploited, and not in a good way.

Theymos and his crew would have forced to camp 24/7 until they got the new forum software (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5108349.msg49921196#msg49921196) up and running, everything would be monetized, altcoin discussion would be incentivised over bitcoin discussion, most hard-core forum members would leave, and the constant trial and error would lead to a perpetual April fools’ day on the forum. No thanks …

It is not surprising that Elon afford to buy twitter but what is surprising is when he got interested on buying it. In what way he will use twitter when he already have big business and we know that Elon is into new technologies like space exploration, and building new car models which are environmentally friendly. They are too far from Twitter which is only a social media site.

Bitcointalk is not new so I believe he have heard of it before and even visited it but we never hear that he have plans of acquiring it and I don't think theymos will agree with that because btc is supposed to be decentralized and so as this forum but if Elon owned it, he can make it more centralized. I am sure none of us will like that.

Bitcointalk is different from twitter, so i don't see Elon wanting to buy bitcointalk because it is no longer worthy for the growth of his own business. And while twitter will be a lot beneficial for his own greed in his business, bitcointalk never share the same goal with twitter. So i really don't think Elon will be interested in buying this forum, and of course the bitcointalk community will never allow for it to happen.

The truth of the matter is that Elon Musk do not have unlimited cash, he is just lucky to be the richest man in the world currently now, of which such is bound to change in due time. So here are the reasons why I think Elon Musk would not consider buying bitcointalk even when i know he has what could be the current worth of the forum now. But bitcointalk is just a forum for people who has just a particular believe (Bitcoin), of which less than 0.01% of the total population of people in the whole world, unlike Twitter who has the population of almost half of the world

Interesting question though. I was wondering what OP is onto when he wrote this question and what he might have been thinking about Elon and Bitcointalks connection. 

Though it doesn’t matter at all, let’s agree that this is complete non sense in the first place. Elon does not even think twice before tweeting or firing peeps around his company and what would we expect from such guy when comes around this forum?

The first thing he would do when he buy the forum is:
Fire the loyal and serious members out of the forum. He is so capable that he might just turn this forum into colourful modern era chat room.

We may start seeing stri***rs after few months.

“Not gonna happen”. Let’s chill and keep the forum together in similar way it did since its inception. <3

The forum is a nonprofit organization. Elon Mask is a businessman, and he'll never be interested in acquiring Bitcointalk. Because he can't make any money from where he is. But it is true that if he becomes interested and purchases it, he will begin earning money from here, like selling ranks. Bitcointalk, on the other hand, is public property, despite the fact that theymos own the domain hosting. In any case, he shouldn't sell it. It's because theymos no longer interested in running ads on the forum. As a result, he will not sell it for personal profit.

I also think that Reddit would be more like to be bought by Elon Musk than this forum.  Aside from that, Elon wanted to acquire a platform where he can generate profit.  Like when he acquire Twitter, he highlighted the tweeter blue subscription to milk the Twitter user as soon as he get control of the company.  Profit-wise, even though the forum is one of the best sources of information and discussion about cryptocurrency, the site's income generation isn't as huge as other social media platforms.  And if ever he got interested and had funds to buy the forum, it is still at theymos' discretion if he will allow Elon to acquire the forum.

Bitcointalk forum is not profitable like twitter based on Elon Musk as real business and trying how to earn profit when investing at some media social platform or try to buy Bitcointalk Forum. I don't think with good ideas when buying Bitcointalk Forum based on not really popular than twitter, but we can't predicting about the future with Elon Musk want to acquisition or not with this forum.

Its seems will bring positive impact when acquisition by Elon Musk because he most richest and popular people right now and give impact later with Bitcointalk Forum most excited place for discussing, but I worry he can earn benefit as soon possible when acquisition with Bitcointalk Forum.

Agreed. Bitcointalk is more of a tavern or a guild where bitcoin enthusiasts and cryptocurrency believers alike come together for the exchange of ideas and opinions on matters that concern the cryptocurrency world. No way Elon's looking at this forum and saying "wow this is a profitable venture, I wanna look at buying it". And even if he does show interest, idk if he could rightfully own a decentralized forum like this.

Yeah, I've got the impression over the years that theymos doesn't exactly care about much the forum is worth, but does care about the community, and how the forum is operating. Which is absolutely refreshing to see. I wouldn't think he'd sell it to anyone, and honestly considering how careful, and thoughtful decisions have been made, at least for the majority of the cases over the years, I wouldn't want it to go to someone that's buying it.

I believe theymos is relatively young, and doesn't seem to be a one to just go, and convert back to fiat. So, I'm pleased to think we'll likely be stuck with theymos for a while. This place could be turned into a absolute gold mine, and I feel like most other people would attempt to do it, and in return absolutely ruin the community we have here.

Let just pray and believe that such an idea doesn't hit Elon's head. That guy doesn't take this world serious. He is so fun and a cruise master, he once said that he doesn't want to be rich, but he wants to be able to buy whatever thing he wishes to buy in life. If Elon attention is fully drawn into crypto and he wishes to control the crypto world, here could be the first place to start, having known that Satoshi originated here.

But I don't know how rich is theymos,  if he will be able to resist any payment ranging in billion dollars. But I am sure theymos will chose to defend Satoshi's idea of decentralization and not sell the forum.

Probably, even Elon will not agree on it. He will only buy a thing if it will be an asset to his own business, so I don’t think he will give a chance to try buying this forum. Also, the goal of this forum is not be taken advantage of a single person, but to give equal advantages to all the people. So definitely, bitcointalk is not in align with Elon’s goal.

What does he expect from bitcointalk because there really isn't anything that suits him here more precisely maybe he isn't really accepted with all his jokes here.
We know that he only focuses on business and profit with all kinds of jokes that he creates so it really seems like there is no place for him here so buying bitcointalk is clearly impossible.

Most probably, the forum members are also not comfortable with Elon replacing Satoshi. Elon has established different goals from Satoshi, so definitely the invention of Satoshi will also not of high interest to Elon. And to think that bitcointalk forum is not for sale, so it should not be intended to be bought regardless of how many tons of billions of dollars Elon had.

He is a businessman. He won't gain anything from buying this forum because he can't get the return unless someone donates the money for him just like this forum did at earlier days. This is just a forum to talk cryptocurrency including Bitcoin. Pretty sure theymos won't agree with this because it's alright as it is, look at Twitter it almost dies lol.

No

Unless you want to pay $8 for membership, then I'm out.

Elon Musk might be the riches person but purchasing Twitter for $44 billion was a blunder and these social media platforms always leaks money because in the past two decades, how many social media platforms came and died along the way and even the richest person wont be having that much liquid money to play around as many people invested in the platform when Elon took over.

If if any billionaire thinks about purchasing bitcointalk for bragging rights, no way theymos is going to sell.

Well written. What comes to my mind right now: Each posting of a member is like a transaction in the blockchain. Sometimes bigger, sometimes smaller, and a thread is like a block. One difference, postings can be deleted. And who are the miners?

Elon need a lot of time now for Twitter, SpaceX, Tesla and everything else, and Crypto feels like a plaything for him. But he bring a lot of new people to Crypto, unfortunately blinded with wrong background.

There will be a mess if he takes over the forum, see what he's doing with twitter, laying off all the staff and closing many establishments. Do you want that to happen to the forum? We are not popular now but this is enough for us to have peace, don't bring Elon here, he is very smart and talented but he is crazy to break things here.

It would be nice to see an intention to buy, and him receiving a response that it is not for sale.

The forum is an important asset in the history of Bitcoin and consequently cryptocurrencies, perhaps one day becoming the first Internet forum to be inducted into the United States Library of Congress.

Therefore, there are better destinations or ideas for the forum, and until now they have always emerged from the bases of the forum, I hope this remains the case, one feels represented by the administrative decisions that have been carried out up to now, in fact they have always revealed that the forum has a non-profit objective, it is written there, but regardless of whether one read it from someone from the administration, it is the feeling that remains even for someone who has never read such a statement.

Trust is a premise of Bitcoin! has been and still is it many years after its your first transaction, I think that the forum admins are a reflection of that trust in the forum management.

It rarely happens when there is money involved, but I think that the forum is not sold and even less to a guy like El-Off.

He's an incredible businessman, despite what users here might think of it, especially since he's in the limelight for Twitter right now. However, he's proven multiple times how good he's at making money. This forum is no different, if it was in the wrong hands, this place could be exploited hugely for generating revenue. Thankfully, we aren't subject to that, and it seems all decisions are considered carefully even when it comes to finances.

You don't hear of a forum or business if you want to call it that, opting to operate at a loss, because of the issue with advertisers, and not being able to verify whether they're safe or not. Which, is effectively what theymos has opted to do recently with the ad auctions being stopped. Alright, we have a big reserve, and if it depleted so much we didn't have anything, I'm sure it would be introduced. However, most businessman I see including Elon, get greedy, and I'm just thankful that hasn't been the case with the forum.

^ He knows probably that we know about his joke and that is impossible to happen that he will buy this forum, this is not what he was looking for.
Probably a large social media like TikTok, Facebook, or Reddit will have a chance but on this forum, it will never happen as I see.
People here know about Elon Musk, but not all people here like him, remember when he manipulated the market and discourage everyone from BTC?
So that is impossible.

If you think about it, this forum was built because of people like Musk who want to use their financial muscle trying to bulldoze their way through everything and anything... without considering the next guy. Bitcointalk is a place that gives power to the people as it advocates for financial freedom and a crypto haven not found anywhere else , btw bitcointalk is a non profit platform which could be out of Elons interest .

Elon Musk focus is completely upon something that brings him money. Being the best businesses man in the world knows how to make money. He had worked hard and a genius. With all his efforts had made a good fortune. Everything is power. In recent years the election campaigns of different countries were done much through Twitter. Social media is the deciding factor. This means now he have got hold on deciding who needs to be the next leader for a country.

Therefore, even though this is only about how to develop speculation, he still will not do what he thinks is not profitable.
He is a businessman who actually continues to seek profit from the many things he does and the people here actually I feel more dislike than like him from the behavior he makes even though it doesn't cover the fact that we also often use it for profit personal but that does not mean we like this millionaire.

This isn't going to happen. I'm not even talking about the transaction but there's going to be no offer from musk.

He overpaid for twitter and has too many things going on at the same time with space flights, starlink and tesla. He's not going to help bitcoin in any way and buying a bitcoin forum is so unlike him.

It's a small thing for him, if he wants, he can buy SMF (Simple Machine Forum), but for what? collectible?.
I just think it funny if Elon went busy taking care of spam posts and deleted the spammer post. I can't imagine finding Elon Musk as an Administrator here which I think is not happen when he acquired twitter because He can't buy community. Then who has the money if going to be true?

I'm sure that such thoughts would not exist in Elon's brain. him buying Twitter certainly had other goals in mind for the plans he came up with. not just fad and having fun with his wealth.
I believe it will never happen. buying a forum without any business consideration in it, it will be a disservice.
or will Elon turn forums into his other business? it makes companies that will make marketing here have to pay in advance to the forum. ah, that would just kill the forum.

Looking at what he's doing with twitter, he doesn't seem to be motivated by profit. I think he's interested in influencing politics and in boosting his ego. And he's ready to spend billions on it.

Elon Musk lost all interest in Bitcoin a long time ago, but I can imagine a scenario where he would try to buy bitcointalk or take control of /r/Bitcoin to push for his vision of Bitcoin. Remember how he was offering us his "brilliant" advice how to increase Bitcoin capacity by increasing the block size or shortening the block time.

Elon Musk likes something controllable by 1 to 2 sentences then people are affected. Just imagining him facing some forum members with high decentralization ideology, it was like hell for him.
After all, he was a shitcoin lover (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=255430;sa=showPosts) from the start.  :P

Elon Musk will remove Bitcointalk from his must-buy list and he controls it. As you said, the geniuses on this forum have a decentralized ideology so that no one can control it. This forum is a place where is free to express opinions and no one will be able to control it, except for the rules that have been implemented and cannot be violated.

Musk is a businessman, and what businessmen value most is profit, and they will not do things without profit.
He will not buy bitcointalk. Forum administrators won't let him buy it either.

Last time I checked he was not into Bitcoin anymore, in favor of Dogecoin. In fact, I remember that some months ago the market was completely flooded with dog shitcoins, only because of him.

Also, It is silly someone would ever need to flush down a toilet over 40 billion dollars for the sake of their ego. I still believe there must be some plan for Elon Musk to monetize Twitter in an relatively-effective way.

Elon Musk is a smart person and he always wants to invest his money in some place from where he will get huge profit but I don't think Elon Musk is interested in buying this forum and I think Elon Musk doesn't know about this forum too much and he don’t have account here. I'm not entirely sure about that though.  Because anyone can roam around here under a pseudonym. But I never think Elon Musk will buy this forum

if elon buys this forum, maybe we won't be here anymore, because this forum will be weird and will be centered on personal business that doesn't care about other people.
the place for discussion in the forum will be smaller, only focusing on business (in my mind) because as we know who Elon is and what's on his mind

and I'm sure this forum is not suitable for Elon to take over like Twitter

No, Elon musk will not embark on such investment that will not bring him huge amount of money in the future, than to invest in social media that will start bringing  weekly income or monthly income. Elon musk is a potential investors that like to invest his money on a particular project that he will have 100% control over the the income, I guess this will be some of the reasons he will not buy bitcointalk, because is a platform that contain decentralized users.

I don't think musk will buy bitcointalk. He doesn't show his love for Bitcoin. The forum is full of senior bitcoin buyers, and his remarks have no influence in the forum. Musk is definitely prioritizing what the consequences are.

The OP thought Elon Musk will buy Bitcointalk because he bought Twitter, not knowing that he did not just buy Twitter, he bought it for no much reasons than to use it to make more money, that is why he sacked many staff already and looking for more ways Twitter can generate more income. For income generating reasons, Elon Musk can not buy this forum, he can only go for the ones like Twitter which he had gone for. The second reason he bought Twitter is to have more influence, which this forum may not provide for him for the kind of influence he has already.

Yes , you are right . We are not surprise to elon buy twitter . But in my personal opinion , he did not only buy twitter because he have unlimited money but also he is a skilled businessman . He knows the business skilled better. He invest on twitter and he can make a huge amount of profit by it.

Otherside , this forum is not profitable like twitter. So, I did not thik Elon have much interest in it.

Totally disagree and very stupid when you have that kind of expectation. Elon Musk would never have any money here if his goal was to control as he pleased. We here do not need Elon Musk's contribution to the growth of the Forum. You want something like that to happen? don't get your hopes up because that's not what Satoshi was aiming for, he's keeping us feeling free, not a dictator who can tweet as he pleases.

Careless !! Bitcointalk has the upper hand, especially in our eyes and I will be the first to contradict you.

I even think that he doesn't even know that this forum exists, let alone know that he is going to purchase it. Honestly, the forum is just a small space for crypto lovers like us to operate, it's not as big and popular as Twitter but other social networks. Twitter offers a lot of advertising services that can make money and that's what Elon is aiming for, he will only care about things that will generate profits for him. Moreover, it may not be a good thing for us if he is the owner of the forum, maybe he will change things and take us off the forum.

Buy bitcointalk from who, admin? I would be the first to leave if he became the owner, or I wouldn't even have to because I would get a perma ban just because of my avatar.

You and the like who follow this character fanatically would be really happy if you could kiss the ground he walks on every day, and I'm sure everyone would have avatars with his character - he would certainly make you at least a global moderator ::)

They are the same people who got influenced by his tweets and make investment decision based under his influence and that troll manipulative guy took advantage of these people to make profits out of their pockets.They think what he is doing is right and support him to be part of the new scenario where he is some influential person for the group of fools.

Speaking about forum then he is not gonna have it from @theymos as this is open discussion forum and he will not let it happen and make it worse like you could pay for $10 to get legendary account and spam the whole forum without any restriction so would it be fine for you? Leave him in his interest and don't overthink the useless things.

You need to correct one point which you missed and that is, Elon musk does not have unlimited money, and since bitcointalk is not for sale he may not have the money or the reputation it take to own Bitcointalk, the forum have administrator that have constantly stressed that bitcointalk have an enough Bitcoin reserve that could carter for whatever the forum needs and some of this funds are spent on new software development.

I will always and forever believe in our admins and mods here, they have the same core values and they will not allow Elon to ruin this place as well, twitte is a mess now we used to tweet our crypto insights in twitter as well but it is no longer the twitter before, this forum share the common interest and mindset with satoshi, so I think if Elon will try to buy this one it will be a BIG NO for him. bitcointalk is our safe haven.

There could be mass exodus of users, specially those who have been here in the community for many years as who don't like Elon Musk playing us here in our own community.

Even at his own company now, Twitter, employees doesn't want to work with him anymore because of the work ethics he wanted to imposed to his employees. So that is a big possibility if ever he plans to buy bitcointalk.org. But in any case, I don't see Elon doing it, he is a investors and he will put his money where it will grow.

What are we now all fighting for against Craig or any other that we ant to claim been Satoshi if at the end the so called the only reliable forum that exist for bitcoin discussion is rented out for sale, then bitcoin wouldn't be decentralized anymore, and at OP, i want to believe that you truly understand the implication of the personal text you put which says, not your keys not your coins, what birth that lies in full decentralization.

I really wonder why thoughts like these are popping into your head. What's in it for Elon Musk to buy bitcointalk?

Bitcointalk is a community based forum mainly discussing bitcoin, its development and other cryptocurrencies. A discussion forum like this wouldn't be very profitable for him so Elon wouldn't be interested in offering it. After all, Elon Musk is also not real crypto maniac who supports bitcoin and such, he is just a joke.

Musk very well loved bitcoin, but he didn't show it frankly because limited to business, he is not forthright because entering a market for people who don't love bitcoin.

nothing is impossible, we could have guessed impossible because at the moment he doesn't know bitcoin talk as same he was not interested in Twitter a long time ago.

I don't agree if happens, all members must have to vote if they try to make offers because each member has a voice to vote to disagree.

I'd say bitcointalk's in good hands currently. I think a lot of us would be pretty bummed out if he managed to buy it.

I speculate he went to the dogecoin demogrpahic rather than BTC primarily due to the gullibility of believers.
And he could make a lot more squeezing a worthless shitcoin at the time.

I was a fan until recent years. I'm really curious about his crypto moves along with his influence how much he's been able to accumulate via manipulation since his entry.
That one wallet with all that doge, got its first deposit a few days before he ever publicly mentioned "dogecoin"

It may not be his wallet, but the amount in it was insane.

How did you know this? I don't believe he loves bitcoin or crypto, what he is doing is just finding a way to fill his pocket not because he loves bitcoin or crypto.



It is true that nothing is impossible, but if you have been following him for a long time, then you will notice that he is a fan of twitter and he has expressed that point of view many times in the past.
I would also vote no if he wants to buy the forum. Currently, we are operating very well under the management of reputable members here, if the forum falls into the hands of Elon, it will really be a problem.

He can buy anything he wants including this forum but the question is what does he buy it for and what benefit does it bring him? I think he's rich but he's not crazy to buy something that doesn't benefit him. The fact that he bought twitter because it benefits his work, you know he is an entrepreneur and owns 5 companies so needing a social network is essential. Unlike twitter, bitcointalk is just a place to discuss cryptocurrency or discuss gambling, it has nothing to do with his current business.

Elonmusk Bitcoin No way he can buy this platform is no joke. It is not a newbie platform that anyone can buy if they want. For example Twitter company has bought this Elon musk. It might be possible for him because of the fact that he has made the Twitter company his own. But the Bitcoin platform is not a platform that anyone can buy A completely different platform from social media is the Bitcoin platform.

The Bitcoin platform is no joke for Elon Musk who can buy whatever he wants Not the place he could.

There's no reason for him to do that unless he has something in his mind that we don't really understand but I'm pretty sure that they won't sell this community because the people who contribute their countless hours to support this community is cannot be paid with money. Especially those users that are like living in the future when it comes to their computer knowledge. This community is not only built by a person but also by the help of the communities by sharing their guides and lessons which gives the future investors, miners, and others on what things they will need to do to avoid scammers and hackers and also to do the right thing for the good results of their works.

I don't think that's even possible because inorder to buy something it needs to be on sale.
Bitcointalk is not for sale which is why not even Elon Musk would be able to buy it.
Currently Theymos is moderating the forum and I don't think he is hungry for money which is why he would definitely reject any deal Elon Musk would offer.

I don't think that theymos and other staffs will give up this forum just for the sake of money. I doubt that theymos will sell this forum to anyone even the richest billionaires out there. We culture satoshi nakamoto ideology here and if somebody acquire this forum like Elon Musk who doesn't have that ideology. I think this forum will not be the same as it was before and there's a possibility that this forum will lose forum members even the ones who has reputations here. Satoshi will be disgusted if ever this forum is sold. I think there's  0 chance of this forum to be sold, Though it can be transferred to the next generation people. We never know.

Before Elon would even think of buying this forum, surely Reddit would go first since it is much larger community to at least be in his own hands. Considering the recent Twitter drama about him, he will surely target larger companies and not just a single forum out of boredom. :D

Surely theymos would not even just close a deal with him. We even have new forum software that is currently in development, so imagine just giving that up in the blink of an eye.

The good thing about this forum that even Elon Musk cannot buy this forum even if he wanted to even after being the richest person on the earth. This forum is in safe hands and we have full faith in current ownership that they will not move away from the basic ideology of the forum.

The thread struck me as a joke. Now that we know what Elon is after, we should know he goes beyond the fame and the money. A fund of that size is not available on Bitcointalk for the world's wealthiest. Like Twitter, how many people use and visit the forum? In the near future, many people will leave Twitter and a similar app will replace it, so Jack Dorsey won't be happy he sold that app to him. I am concerned about how the crypto community will respond if many leave.

I don't see any possibility in Elon's case of buying this forum. And I'm pretty sure this Forum won't be for sale even if someone comes along with an offer higher than the price of the twitter Elon bought it for.

This forum has a more irreplaceable history. And I don't think Elon would be interested. because he has motives like popularity combined with his business. so that all his actions I think ultimately lead to his ambition in planning in financial gain.

A few days ago, Elon announced that twitter has just hit a record in users, twitter is still the most popular social network and I see no reason for people to leave it. About the future, it is impossible to say, but in the near future, I believe that there will be no replacement application.

About Elon buying the forum, the idea made me laugh too. He is the best businessman in the world he is not a child will buy something that will not benefit him. Like the fact that he owns Twitter, it not only strengthens his reputation but also makes his business stronger than the competition.

According to world statistic Twitter appeared on the least in this tweet
The amount of monthly active users:
Facebook: 2.9 billion
YouTube: 2.2 billion
WhatsApp: 2 billion
WeChat: 1.2 billion
Instagram: 1.2 billion
Tiktok: 732 million
Telegram: 700 million
Snapchat: 528 million
Pinterest: 459 million
Reddit: 430 million
Twitter: 396 million

Link to the statistic ; https://twitter.com/stats_feed/status/1595066583860535297?s=20&t=5XyF1Bnuu7DjZkM3k3MIDw
So how did twiiter get to be the most popular with fewer monthly users?

He has a lot of money but not because he has money he can buy anything he wants, just because twitter wants to sell itself so he can buy it. But with the forum, how can he buy it if Theymos has no intention of selling it? As many have said if he wants to buy something next then maybe Reddit is his next target, because if he owns these top social networks, he will assert his position as well as bring benefits to his business. Forum is not his goal.

Like I said above, nothing is impossible, maybe we have to think this forum can give up Elon Musk's profit like another social media Twitter (or next reddit), but as we already know this forum is unique that made by a person who created bitcoin, if Elon has a collector and philanthropic soul that possible will happen, because nobody knows what happen in the future.

I don't think he has the soul of an antique collector, he founded Tesla and Space with the purpose of creating the future of humanity, he is a modernist. Also, I agree with most of the points here, he only buys what it is profitable for him, he won't buy things that don't make a profit and don't generate too much buzz.

I will not agree to this because in terms of profit there is no profit if Elon buys this forum and don't equate social media Twitter with this forum either, I think throw away thoughts about that, let him buy Twitter but not for this forum

I agree with you that the future is unpredictable but looking at the current situation, I wouldn't change my prediction about Elon's acquisition of this forum. Forum is almost useless for him, if he is a Satoshi fan then bitcoin is a better choice for him. Although he is still talking about bitcoin, there are doubts whether he is really interested in bitcoin or just trying to find a way to profit himself like he did with bitcoin and doge in 2021. If bitcoin is really just a profit making tool and he leaves after achieving his goal then the forum will be nothing to him.

Elon is a businessman I doubt he will find this place profitable enough to express his interest. He didn't buy Twitter because of its uniqueness, there is something to be gained in return.
what will he gain from buying bitcointalk? except he will redesign the whole operation of this platform and turn it into revenue generating platform. Or he does it for the name and prestige, being the one to own the one forum that satoshi created. But i feel Elon is too business oriented for that.

Disagree, considering that Elon has more power after buying Twitter and there are many policies that are detrimental to their workers or employees, so I am very worried that there will be policy changes that are very detrimental to this forum as well. Let the forum remain as it is a welcoming place for everyone.

This.  Hispo hit the nail on the head.  This website wouldn't be worth Elon's time to even take a meeting on it.  I doubt you could even get a one word reply if you texted him with an offer to take ownership of this site for free.  The guy is worth so much, his time is heavily regulated and the idea that he would spend even his toilet time responding to an offer for a web forum is ridiculous.  Not to mention this site is actively reducing it's revenue sources while adding additional expenses and a replacement website has been in the works for a decade. 

I think you'd have more luck trying to sell this site to Roger Ver or Craig Wright. 

And who told you that Elon Musk does not know anything about the forum, or that he did not think of buying it? Hahahahaha  :D
I wouldn't be surprised if we found out one day that he has an account here. The man is considered one of the early adopters of crypto, and it is certain that he visited or is visiting the forum to follow the updates at least.
Bitcointalk Forum is not a commodity for sale, and those managing it still maintain the decentralized philosophy that Satoshi (the creator of the forum) sought to establish since its inception.

Okay, first of all, Elon has "limited money"..
And we never really know what Elon would do with the forum if he does buy it. I think he has a good knowledge about how cryptocurrencies work, however, he may not likely take advantage of the forum for his selfish interest and end up messing things up like he did Twitter.

I saw what you did there! Nice click bait with the topic to get users attention and thanks for your name by the way, it will help others know more about not a keys not the bitcoin to more people.

Now, let me return to your question.
The Bitcoin forum was created by Satoshi himself, then it was BitcoinForum, but prior to Satoshi's absence from the forum, he left the forum operations to people he trusted in the bitcoin forum at the time, but unfortunately, it was hacked but the logs and backend database were properly saved and the New Bitcointalk forum was born without any donations from outsiders, it was all within the forum and thanks to Theymos. The forum, like bitcoin, is never a centralized body, it is for the people and will remain in this manner.

He bought twitter just to endorse his product. this is a fact that has not been implemented yet because of the situation. as we know twitter is very different when compared it with forum, but if he want he can make this forum be on next twitter with have mobile application download on android and ios. We still wait for this (the forum mobile) same as twitter, If Elon bought the forum and can do that (forum with compatible mobile application) tomorrow, There is no harm to support him.

BitcoinTalk is not twitter. Elon Musk games don't apply here.

This is a serious establishment. It has no monetary value. It has spiritual value.

No, I don't and never agree, and I think the moderators and everyone involved in creating this forum are not money oriented so the opportunity to sell it to anyone including elon will be possible, I might even say impossible, not everything can be valued in money.
What makes you think this forum would be superior if he bought it? the amount of money he has will not be able to make this forum better than it is now other than making it centralized and proof of account ownership is no longer by means of bitcoin stake addresses but by verifying documents, and this will not be liked.

No such thing as unlimited money in this world. His riches is as valuable as how much contribution he has made in the lives of billions of people around world (I'm only for very useful and faultless contributions) otherwise its deceitful riches.

In regards to buying this forum, It's Not For Sale. It's more like a National asset which represents the Bitcoin Cyber Nation, an opensource community. Imagine USA government selling www.state.gov or something like that to Trump or Billgate. Or even your national government selling national sites to the rich ones in your country. The forum is as important as government sites because Bitcoin founders who are more like National founding "fathers" will be very displeased to see something they built for the good of Bitcoin getting sold to someone who likely does not share in the Bitcoin values/ideals and will likely be heavily abused by him with privacy invasive, mind control, parasitic technology for example.

By the way, the Bitcoin system which the bitcointalk forum represents is a shared Public Network owned together by its Citizens who believe in its good values, help in preserving them and making Bitcoin better. The forum also belongs to them and they represent Satoshi who consent will be needed in order to determine whether its right to sell Bitcoin asset to "private individual". Only a dumb person/people will sell or buy the forum

Elon only interested in the Financial gaining website.He try to double or triple his money by buying assets. Instead of buying a bitcointalk, he can buy of reddit or discord or you tube. Which is very close to the twitter. If Elon musk buy the reddit Or discord he can control over huge projects.Where he can make post good based on his opinion. But bitcointalk is the forum, So it's hard to control by the people. Bitcointalk is like a Quora and wikipedia which helps to learn some knowledge from it .We are here to share both positive and negative about the crypto currency projects to the beginners.

No. Check out this site's domain extension; it's .org. I don't think Elon would be interested in buying a non-profit organization/site/institution. Even if Elon is wanna buy this forum, I don't think Theymos and all the staff/people who run this forum will sell it. Elon is a businessman. He doesn't care about Bitcoin; he only cares about projects that can support his business.

It seems that this will not be possible because as we know that Elon Musk is not just buying a platform, he also sees the value and business potential of the platform. We also know that bitcointalk is not a business platform that Musk can develop and profit from. This is a forum where crypto-enthusiasts interact in it. So I think that Musk is unlikely to want to buy this forum.

It won't be possible for him to buy bitcointalk because bitcointalk is not like twitter or other social media platforms. Bitcoin is a decentralized currency,  not owned by anybody so as the bitcointalk.  Bitcointalk is a place where people come and learn about bitcoin and share their challenges so I don't see why Elon musk would want to buy bitcoin,  it doesn't make any sense. Bitcointalk is not for sale, rather elon musk is always welcome to the forum to come learn more about bitcoin  and to share his ideas😉.

I think he won't even bother buying Bitcointalk, there's no marketing value here except for cryptocurrency. Elon wants Twitter because it's huge, a lot of people are using it, worst case scenario is if he's after for the data as well that he might use to something, who knows. He could easily advertise his products there for free if he buys it. I also doubt that this forum is for sale, I bet this would not be sold in any amount because this forum is very important.

yes papa elon musk buys a company for profit reason and i do believe he will not gonna buy forum like bitcointalk since this forum focused on community share and made idea and not make a big profit

I do not want to see a future where Elon Boy is taking over Bitcointalk. I don’t think he is that interested as he is more focused on Twitter, Tesla, etc.

I strongly believe that even if he offers billions, it will likely be rejected. We just wanted Bitcointalk to remain as ease from the very beginning.

We’re already happy about Bitcointalk right now. I say no to Elon boy taking over this forum. It’s gonna be absurd.

Yes, of course they will maintain the forum not to be sold, maybe even theymos will survive to continue to develop a bigger community not in terms of business, while Elon Musk is a businessman he will not see opportunities here, so he will not be interested in forums at all or any organization that is a community and this is very different from the social media he bought Twitter.
Maybe he didn't even know the Bitcointalk forum until now, what he knows is big social media that has become his business competitor, maybe that's what he pays attention to, not small things like this forum.

ahaha sorry for the laugh but I see this thread now and it seems practically useless to talk about it I don't see what benefit it can draw.  Do you think Musk can now buy anything for the sake of owning it?  In any case I've already thought about cloning the forum on Telegram as I've already explained in this thread (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5422491.0) so don't be afraid ;)

What updates does he follow here?, the forum is just a small space for small investors like us to come here to exchange, share news and knowledge with each other. There's nothing he needs here. What is the reason he needs twitter?, he needs it for his business and the forum doesn't provide that feature for him.
Twitter is like other social networks, it brings together millions of people around the world with different needs but the forum is just a place to talk about cryptocurrencies and gambling, I don't think he is a gambler :D :D. Just because he is an early adopter of cryptocurrencies like us doesn't mean he likes to discuss like we do, he has a lot of money and wants to invest just spend it.

I see that he is still running Twitter very well and things take time to sort things out, he just took over it and has a lot to clean up and rebuild.
He's smart enough to pay billions of dollars for it, I don't think he bought it on a whim. Look at what he's got, that means he's on the right track, otherwise he wouldn't have become the richest billionaire in the world.


Creating mobile applications is not too difficult and does not need Elon's support. I believe the administrators have a good reason not to upgrade the forum after all these years, perhaps they want to keep all the things that Satoshi left us, a pure original like bitcoin. But the idea of a mobile version is interesting, I also find it inconvenient to use the forum by phone sometimes.

Where are you getting this information from?
Personally, I don't think that will happen.

Lol. It seems Elon musk wants to buy everything. Anyways, that's what happens when you don't know what to do with your too much money.

On a more serious note, let him pls stay far from BTT.