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I myself belongs to Pakistan community. In usually, We don't have our local board for Now but Hoping to have it Sooner.  Our Senior members    shahzadafzal , irfan_pak10 , Hamza2424 Leading Us very well. I am sharing the request link of local board where you guys can see our every months reports which is now is impressive rather than before.

Re: Request: New Local Board for Pakistan (Urdu) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5430735.180.html)

But, this idea can be implement in other local boards for now until we get our local board. Many of here may ask why i am saying to create chlid board with the name of location. So, the reason is that if there is child board with the name of location we can create threads in it with the name of cities; Like in Pakistan

Threads name be like in location child board in Pakistan....

1. Lahore
2. Karachi
3. Islamabad
4. Faisalabad .....etc

These cities name may vary location to location according to the country name in their local board.

By creating these threads in chlid board name with location we can held collaboration concerts or events by doing some announcements in these thread like where we want to held any coming event and maybe helpful to announce some important News in the cities thread related to coming events. This May be very helpful to increase the audience by inviting many of the people on these events. Where seniors will educate other people about this forum who have no idea about it like how much positive potential have this forum.

I Myself really like this forum very much because as a joiner on this forum i get to know alot of ideas and knowledge from other member and even from other boards as well.

So, for now this idea can be implement on other local boards by creating child board with the name of location. This may bring a massive audience on this forum and bring it up. Hope you guys like my idea. Many Thanks! :)

You don't have your own local board yet, but you are thinking of having some childboards. The child board you suggested isn't necessary. By creating those childboards, you are dividing your people and your community into certain groups. Do you really want that? The best would be one board for Pakistan so that everyone can share their knowledge, their ideas, and their opinions in one place. My suggestion for you is to focus on getting a local board first.

Imagine if everyone thought of creating child board based on their location like usa, russia etc. Do you realize how many child board will there be if that were to happen? It will only cause unnecessary mess.

Firstly, I think you’re missing the whole point of local board creation and mixing it up as something that is an individual country thing. The reason for local board is just to cover up for other languages that are not English which is the forum general language. This local board help members that aren’t fluent in English to understand and communicate well in the language they understand.

So the suggestion that there should location child board will simply imply that every country should also have their own board too which is not the point of the local board in my perspective.

Buddy You didn't get my main point. I suggest here a child board with the name of location and then this child board will contain the name of cities in the form of thread. There will not alot of boards in local Buddy You didn't get my main point.  just have to create one child board name with location that's all what i wanna say. Rest of that i think you did not read my post carefully.


As i aforementioned that my main purpose not to request local board here again because it is already requested here. This idea i present here for others board for now and whenever we get our own local board i also would like to see it there as well. Hope now you will get my point more clearly. Many Thanks 

Thank you for putting your thoughts into it, but honestly, It seems unncessory until we get our own local board, nor I think it is doable. So, let's hope we get our local board as soon as possible.

Like you didn’t read my post well also, local Board aren’t mean’t for different cities or different countries but rather for other languages. Take a look at the Arabic local Board all countries that speak that language can fit in there. So there is no reason to create a child board of different locations. You just discus in the Local board language.

It's good that your thinking ahead and trying to see means to draw users in but, I feel this would result in the opposite of what it's hoped to archive.

Firstly, I vital part of the cryptocurrency idea isn't just in having to have an alternative to fiat thatcan be used across borders and serve more purposes but, its anonymous nature.
Most users and not just on forum would like to keep it that way which defeats the idea.

Also, we have several groups existing on the forum and though, it's just jsernes we use here, some users becoming to certain local boards are yet to identify fo various reasons. How will you expect them to unmax themselves in an event.

Again,I don't think using physical locations would be a good means to organise any local board.

It's not going to be any helpful my friend. The local boards are accepted only based on someone's language and the Pakistan local board is for Urdu language speakers and if gets accepted then the people from Pakistan will be able to create Urdu threads in their own local board.

It's not good at all to create sub-boards in a local board where people from specific cities can talk about the events that are going to take place in that city and such child-boards can help spammers to create the threads which aren't even needed in a local board.

The first thing is that the Pakistani people haven't got their own local board and I think it's important to have their own local board before they can post a thread in Meta to ask for any child-boards. The Pakistan's local board has been in exposure for sometime but still it isn't accepted by theymos and once it's accepted then it would make sense to create child-board request threads.

The local boards are for the locals of a country who speak the same language and if Pakistan's local board is accepted then anyone from Pakistan will be able to create threads on their local board, but still most of the threads will have to be related to Bitcoin or crypto-currencies unless the local board also gets an off-topic child board. 

I'm pretty hopeful, until the end or in the coming year with the ETF approvals we'll get the Board approval as well haha Happy Bull rally. ;D ;D.


Yeah, well there's a point and I would like to mention to the OP, that creating such topics for whatever purpose doesn't necessarily need a special child board for each, if a user wants to discuss something in his locality he can create a thread, In his local board as we have by the name of Pakistan*.

Anyway, I would be seeking more light on the topic of why he got up with this idea maybe there's something unique as well.

It is when Pakistan has been given a local board that you can now ask for a  child board. If your local board hasn't been created, it will be impossible to have a child board. For example, a man without a arm can't put on a wrist watch because he needs his arm to put on his wrist watch on his wrist. This it works too in school you must have a department before the courses. Hope for your local board first before you can think of having a child board. My country has a local board but we don't have a child board yet and we are hoping that Theymos will grant us that request.

The idea of local boards is to carry each and every member of the forum along, irrespective of their language, ethnicity, and religion, because the forum's general language is English and not everyone in the world can speak and understand English. That is why local boards were created so that there will be communication about bitcoin across the world.

I don't also think creating a child board that signifies location on various local boards is necessary because it can divide the audience by their particular location instead of sharing knowledge that will benefit the general audience.

I think I understand what you're trying to say - but how is that possible if you don't have your own local board yet? Your request doesn't seem urgent - so I think you should just focus on convincing admin to agree to your new local board request instead of the child board you intended.

That will be very first time suggested and i dont think its necessary. Boards or Child boards name vary the topics of most or all the threads inside, not the the users location ^{(except the local board name)} as you suggested. Besides its not good for privacy.

These goals are far from the reason for using the forum, as it is a cryptocurrency forum and not a general forum, and Twitter and Facebook are ideal places for such events. I can say that the best alternative to your idea is to create Meetups like this board https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=86.0, within which each person can talk about events related to Bitcoin in his area or city. This will be easier to familiarize yourself with Bitcoin and track local events by creating a topic for each city.

Bitcoin talk forum allows users to protect their privacy and anonymity and you will not want to tell other members where you are living in. A nation is enough and a location like a province, city ... will like more risk to dox you.

Bitcoin talk is not a social media platform like Facebook, Twitter to show your check-in locations and lose your privacy forever. You can like this idea but I believe most of users are against this idea.

I think we should have boards for race, religions, generations, monthly salary etc because different race, religion, generation and monthly salary will have different perspective.

Race: Asian, Black People, White People.
Religions: Christian, Catholic, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shinto, and Atheism.
Generations: Baby Boomer, Gen Z, Gen X, Millennial.
Monthly Salary: $0-$100, $101-$500, $501-$2,500, $2,500-$10,000 etc.

It's not make sense when I talk about Jesus, but you're an Atheism who not believing in God. It's not make sense when I complaint about how insane to acquire an own house when you're an old generations who can buy house easier etc.

After all it's a sarcasm, your request are ridiculous.

Just create a thread on your local board and use the city name as title for discussion. This will solve your requests. There’s not much discussion on each specifics city related to Bitcoin or crypto.

Like the current thread of some country that doesn’t have board. Create a thread like that to use for the discussion of specific location within the country.

You can make one thread to post about such events, and it'll just fine job for what you are asking.


How many approximate events do you get in a year in your country? Probably not a lot. And then You wanna divide those in cities. I feel your suggestion will just make dead boards.

If you don't value your privacy, why don't you, in your Pakistan section thread, tell all users where you live and encourage them to meet on their own? Why tell everyone where and how they live? Give yourself a signature with your location, and encourage those who want to communicate with you offline to write you a private message.

Local boards mods can request @theymos to create more sub-boards as needed, but in general, there need to be at least 20 topics about the new sub-board before its creation is approved, otherwise it will dead because there will be no activity.
if you search in all LBs sub-boards, you will be unable to find 20 topics among the top topics each month talking about city or "Location". This doesn't just apply to your "Location" in local boards request.

A country is already a small enough group, breaking that off into specific locations will lead to less and less discussions and presents a privacy risk for the users.

The focus should be on getting your local board approved, then working out the most needed childboards to include in it.

Dear snowpega I'm sure you know that we don't have our local board and you might have confused our this lonely thread (topic) Pakistan (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=232519.0) with other a boards.

Ok first I think t's important to clarify how Bitcointalk's board structure works. We do have local boards, but they are categorized as "Languages and Regions", not specific to cities or regions within a country. For instance, you'll find boards like Arabic, Italian, Indonesian, etc., under this section.

The section you're referring to as "Location (Local)" is not intended for child boards representing cities or regions within a country. It is more about discussing Bitcoin or cryptocurrencies in one's local language.

First we want to have a dedicated board for Pakistan (Urdu) (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5430735.0) and should be created under the "Local" section, where discussions can take place in Urdu, for example. Once we have our own dedicated board, then we can consider requesting child boards, if necessary.

Regarding the idea of city-based child boards, it may not be practical for several reasons. First, it depends on the number of speakers of specific local languages within those cities. Then, it also relies on the presence of Bitcoin users within those language communities. For languages like Sindhi, Punjabi, or Pashto, it might not be justifiable due to the relatively smaller user base compared to languages like Arabic, Indonesian, or Chinese.

In summary, while city-based child boards may not be the right approach, we do need our own local Pakistan (Urdu) board to discuss topics in our language, اردو.

I hope I'm able to explain and thank you for your understanding.

Your local has not even gotten their own local board and yet you are suggesting child boards to be created. With the current activity of your local board, if those child boards are created, you will be surprised that for a whole week, one child board might not have a single activity.

Again, the essence of the local board is not to track the location of all the users in your local. If you wish to expose your location, go ahead as Lovesmafamilis advised. Leave others who wish to remain private.

OP, yeah, it's your special idea, but I don't think everyone needs that. Well, members who have local boards can already decide reveal their location among each other through PM, but doing it publicly is something I don't consider security-wise. Of what help would it really be to the forum? The local board is where people from the same country can identify themselves, and if you feel the need to extend a relationship to someone in your local board, you can private chat with them with whatever your intentions are, and I believe that's how it has been working for some people for the time being. Anyway, it's just my opinion.

Long story short: Boards or childboards whatever that is should be created based on language not location.

Language boards are meant for those who aren't as expert in English. So a language board helps him to talk and engage with the forum's local users more comfortably. You may not understand English properly, you may confuse with English sometimes. But if were to question the same question in your local board, wouldn't that be easy for you to understand? Your own people can answer to your question. Even now I don't understand why you want city  or state based childboards, what are you trying to gain? There is a option to add subject when posting. You can just mention your Location when you are posting. That way you can tell others where or what region of people you are trying to spread your news to.

I'm confused about why city locations have to be added for thread names because it doesn't have benefits. If there's a local board does it have to have cities for subs? I haven't seen any local board getting cities in subs so why should there be exceptions made for your board it doesn't make sense.

It is not about the problem or useless, but it will make many children's boards that are inactive, because I am quite sure that from every country people who are in this forum are not so much, especially in the calculation of the region, so adding locations to the local board It will only make our Local council narrow without activities in it.

Adding location is not what is needed and does not become something very urgent in all local councils, make a submission for logical reasons and submissions are things that should be needed by each local council. :-X

Unnecessary and scary, I don't want you people knowing my general location because you know what region/city where I'm at, that's too scary and not to mention that those child boards would definitely not be an active boards anyway as you get closer on a location, it's definitely going to be less and less user that will reply there but I get OP's plight, OP wants to connect with those that are close to the region that OP is in but someone has to think of the implications of that suggestion.

Not me, buddy. OP wanted childboards based on some location, state, or city. Hiding your location is crucial when it's connected to the Internet. I won't want any part of my virtual life to mix with my actual life. Yeah, you are right. By creating location based childboards, OP is basically disseminating people from his country. There will be fewer and fewer participants from Pakistan as there aren't enough active members, like in Russia or Nigeria. If I'm correct, according to Rikafiq's post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5231446.msg62973845#msg62973845), the Pakistani board/thread had 42 active members and a post count of 610 in September 2023. That's very little when you compare it with Pakistan's population. If you think from a mathematical perspective, they'll be considered lucky if they get their own local board.

You should first concentrate on achieving a local board first not a child board, because when you look at all this numbers of local boards I don't think that they have a local and when they are making a request of theymos given them a local board they did no include a child board.

Even in the request of a local board from theymos its the reputable members of the country that will make post of request concerning a local board not a member rank that is not up a year, you need to know the cranium of the forum first before making a request from a local board.

While op contradict both local board and child board it's because it have never acclimatised with the rudiments of bitcointalk and that's while the tune of op request go that way.

So you think OP doesn't know about it, I'm damm sure he's well aware that without having a board we cant have a child board, The whole idea was not about the Paksitan if you ask me seriously, I'm sure 50% of the poster haven't read the OP's full post even it was not that complex to understand.

I know local boards were meant for something different from what Op's talking about, but OP is saying that if we set a child board by the category of locations and in that sub-section we can create threads by the name of their cities to discuss something creative like meetup, public campaigns etc etc. It sounds non-practical but if you ask me having such locations can really help in promoting the agenda #Bitcoin.


I think your post is more ridiculous....

In which direction you're going bro, like really counting it with Racism and religion... wooo What the heck? A newbie idea of just exploring effective educational ways is getting worse, or it's just post quota.


A very good concern, but who wants to get involved in public events like this and promote something, I'm sure He's / She's less concerned about privacy.

Adding location is not something that will help the forum, in fact it will divert the attention of the local board members to focus on their location and stop sharing their good knowledge and experience to the entire local board members, and this can reduce the forum members anonymity this because if location is added, defiantly people will look look for ways to see each other in real life.
Furthermore, there will be much spam in the sub sections which will result to general discussion and not bitcoin or cryptocurrency .

We can't expect our requests to be put on action because we think it's going to make the forum better or convenient to use. That isn't how it would take shape or else the forum would've changed before.

If local boards were started it wouldn't make sense to add cities as subs. They aren't following the practice now so why'd they do it later if it doesn't bring benefits.

Lol, he is jumping the gun there just a little.  And you're quite right about the divisiveness of having a country's local board further split up into sections by city/state/whatever.  Even if it didn't have the potential to cause a level of tribalism, I just don't think it's necessary--I'm trying to imagine if there was a board for the US and it was divvied up by state.  People would probably not want to be associated with a geographic location that they could be tied to.  Anonymity is still a thing in the bitcoin world, is it not?

Not a good idea, OP.

I don't see this idea as useful at all, as it will cause a lot of useless subboards within the general local boards.

Local boards exist to contain mother languages, not countries or cities. For example, in our Arabic board, if we wanted to divide the board into sub-boards according to each Arab country, we would get more than 22 sub-boards, and each board would mostly have one member. What is the benefit of something like this? Partition that has no practical benefit?