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For Bitcoin, YouTube and Bitcointalk offer a lot of content but what do we need to consider when it comes about evaluating Bitcointalk and YouTube from an educational viewpoint?
Education about how to store, send and know Bitcoin’s technology [Blockchain] properly, is very important, as losses from hacks, coins stolen on centralized exchanges, mistakes by storing backup copies, sending to a wrong address, phishing sites, malware stealer or different scams have shown repeatedly.

Bitcoin is not easy to understand and education can help us to understand it correctly for avoiding mistakes.



YouTube

Numbered in clicks, YouTube is a top source of crypto, where many videos are available. We have special YouTubers doing content about Bitcoin and Crypto. But unfortunately, information quality on YouTube is not very high for most videos because of hype and clickbait videos.
Education requires a detailed research and most YouTubers are not doing a detailed research, it’s mostly staying generic information. Many new videos added every day are also a problem because quality if suffering = quality vs quantity.

An even bigger problem on YouTube is an artificial hype to attract more viewers and get more clicks.
Because it’s an important point for each YouTuber to generate clicks and views and followers. Hate, FUD, propaganda and unproven speculations are a key part of YouTuber’s attention whoring, too. And it is damaging for society when hate, FUD, propaganda or unproven claims are made.
Outrageous claims like launching speculative fake hype videos are a key strategy from many YouTubers to get clicks and views and followers.
= YouTubers want to create hype to increase clicks, not quality information.

It is always similar strategy for YouTubers to create hype instead of presenting normal information. It is very dangerous for us because accurate information is not presented. Instead, reality is hyped and exaggerated.
In many cases, YouTubers are paid by Altcoin projects to present certain Altcoins in a positive way, to create hype and to shill an Altcoin. For a high payment by projects, many YouTubers will only mention positive facts and forget often to inform about risks and flaws of a project to get many followers to invest.
Or it's about a shady exchange, where YouTubers will also get a profit if you sign up from a referral link.
= information quality is suffering and sometimes very misleading

It is very important for us to know YouTuber's hype video is not good advice, it is not really about education in many YouTuber’s video and we need to know YouTuber’s shady tricks.


A detailed description how YouTube deceives viewers can be found in my topic YouTuber's hype video is not good advice (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5470441.0)



Bitcointalk

Bitcointalk is very different from YouTube because Bitcointalk is a forum.
A forum is a much better approach to get accurate information, because in Bitcointalk it's easy for writers to go into detail by a structured and detailed text, it can be a guide, where we can re-read all important information, presented step by step.
Next, someone else comes and contributes his own knowledge on top of former comments in Bitcointalk, where additional knowledge is added and former knowledge get peer-reviewed.

In general, a forum is less based on hype, it is more text and more about education. It is less stressful to do our research in texts, it’s like a big library.
= Library can be boring sometimes but it’s always high quality content.

YouTube is mostly based on hype, accurate information comes second.
= YouTube is like a big circus. And like in circus, we will get a spectacular show and also clowns but little education.

Bitcointalk is suited for education, YouTube just for hype and YouTubers are milking hype.


In Bitcointalk as well, we can find very detailed guides, explanations from many experienced developers.
It's a large range of knowledge from many people, where everyone can contribute his knowledge.
While for such YouTubers, it is often only half-baked content, many YouTubers lack coding knowledge and when such people do a video, it might contain not very accurate information. In YouTube, how to generate clicks is more important.

My first choice for education is Bitcointalk, by far.

This thread most have cost you quite some efforts. I believe it could have been summarized that Bitcointalk provide accurate information's compared to YouTube
To be sincere, I don't see why they should be compared
BTT should be compared with Github
Not YouTube that's now filled with clickbaits
Like coin to buy to make 300000%.
If one is looking for accurate information or education on the crytospace
Then Github and Bitcointalk would be recommended by me.

Because it is important to know to apply big caution to YouTuber's video. Wrong / biased information in YouTube videos happens often.
See YouTuber's hype video is not good advice (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5470441.0).
Still, YouTube is very famous and uneducated / new people can get wrong / misleading information.

It's really difficult to compare Bitcointalk and GitHub because it's fundamental different site. GitHub is for professionals, coders and builders, to exchange coding stuff, make it available. Bitcointalk is for researching and asking questions, offering Bitcoin services, normal project announcements and very important: forum discussions also for normal people, ike Beginners and Help.
Bitcointalk does not offer download and upload because of security risk.
It's a very different structure.

You cannot compare YouTube to bitcoin, the purpose of the creation of each platform is what should be considered first before we can know what to say about each of them, they are both serving their purpose, bitcoin was created by its developer Satoshi for bitcoin discussions with other people from all over the world, youth is just for posting visual contents on various things to enlight, inform and educate others, so I will rather say that bitcointalk is educative on its own aspect and same as YouTube.

I have not compared YouTube and Bitcoin.
I have compared YouTube and Bitcointalk - from an educational viewpoint, like where we have better content for education.

OP your post is very long. Old members maybe skip to read your content. I would advise you to keep your content short and to the point to attract reader. In two paragraphs you could explain your full thread content. I appreciate your work on the thread as it written bybm yourself. Keep it up..

I learned from reading your content that you want to tell us that crypto beginners should choose Bitcointalk forum instead of youtube because here everyone will get correct information while youtube have not such a valuable information.

I agree with your point and besides hype most of the youtubers making video for just a promotion and viewers get false information.  exchanges influencers are also misleading people but this doesn't mean that we ignore the popularity and number of people joining crypto. Every one has own interests. people love to read and take part in discussion choose Bitcointalk forum and users love to watch video use youtube. both are different platform for different purpose and knowledge could be gained from both places.

From an educational perspective, YouTube is very up to date, regardless of the fact that they present content for profit.
Those of us who seek knowledge by using YouTube do not directly receive the information conveyed because we also use comparisons.
If knowledge of something we are looking for on YouTube can help answer problems after comparison, of course YouTube is worthy of being used as an educational platform.

The bitcointalk forum is quite extensive and in my opinion is very different from the knowledge obtained on YouTube for those who feel it after making comparisons.

Old members have no issue reading long and detailed posts of the content is educative and interesting enough. This is a forum and reading paragraphs is essential to the communication process.

If a message can be passed in 2 lines then do not add fillers to make the post more readable, it doesn't add anything more educative for the reader. But if you need multiple paragraphs to pass your message, use that.

OP next time try to be more concise. You can get your point across which less text. You obviously put a lot of effort into writing a wall of text (even more stressful if you’re using a mobile) but I think you could have structured it better. Probably make a brief discussion on the pros and cons of using both platforms. Bitcointalk isn’t perfect, you know. YouTube isn’t all bad either, you just have to fish for the good stuff.

Most times when newbies ask for advice on how to learn bitcoin, we also recommend Andreas Antonopoulos YouTube channel. There are also other good materials on YouTube that are useful. Sure it’s a cesspool, content creators promote all sorts of shitcoins to their followers and there is a lot of misinformation going on there but if you aren’t looking for some quick money it will be very difficult for those guys to sell you.

I'm more in favor of a detailed explanation, it is comparable to Bitcointalk vs. YouTube.
Bitcointalk is detailed explanation, YouTube is superficial (and also hype + speculation).

Yes, especially centralized exchanges want to mkake us store our cons centralized, do many trades (to pay more trading fees and exchange will get more revenue).

I have added a better structure, should be easier to read now.

A big benefit of Bitcointalk is to have different section, where content is easier to find + ask questions of course. We can't really ask questions on YouTube.

Do we really have to bring these two to any form of comparison?
While one counts as social media (YouTube), the other (Bitcointalkforum) is a community of like minds with some anti to ensure proper discussions on a course to its dilute state.

Contents on YouTube might be censored and it inset really subject to discussion, just where you have a single teacher. A know all figure kind of trying to teach you all there ideas be it wrong or right but, it’s not the case with Bitcointalkforum.  The forum is open to a large variety of people from diverse educational backgrounds, all involve in teaching as well as learning at the same time. You’re not being forced on an idea but everything is subject to discussion until you’re fully satisfied with the discussions on a course.

Meanwhile, the highly moderates nature of Bitcointalkforum ensure there isn’t any censorship on discussions and that informations relayed to the public are legit.

Base on This I will simply say Bitcointalk is far more ahead in terms of giving more accurate information than YouTube. This doesn’t mean one needs to rely on every information from here too and that’s why the phrase Do your own research is always attached to each information given here.

The reason why Bitcointalk gives more accurate information is because if a fake one is given by a member, other knowledgeable people will easily debunk it and if it is even malicious it will get deleted by the Mods.

You know that just as there is a huge difference between a specialist in the medical field and then a general body doctor in the medical field, there is a huge difference between Bitcointalk which is the specialist in this situation concerning bitcoins and not YouTube that contains varying knowledge on many things from different people. There are things to learn from YouTube, but concerning bitcoins, being a member of this forum is the best way to learn about it.

__MY VIEW PONT__

TBH, both are good let me explain why.

Firstly YouTube is good because the tutorials explain more with animation and some realtime examples as well what we hear we adopt more, with these perks YouTube can serve more in assisting for education perpouse because many new gen era people don't like to read more. At the same time, many masters efficiently provide accurate information with their art of expressing things at the same time Others, however, devolve into mindless montages, orbiting the point like moths around a flame.

Secondly, I personally prefer Bitcointak because here, you can go through each and every perspective with the discussion on a single topic while going through the, also you have real-time assistance with your queries from other members. The most significant perk of Bitcointalk is the Sneiors you can ask for help, and guidance and learn from their experiences which you really cant through any tutorial master. The more accurate information is available (easy to access) on Bitcointalk with some quality topics At the same time for the quality of content on the Yotuutbe you need to spend significant time scrolling and listening to the tutorials to obtain what you are looking for.

Bitcointalk is just a forum for interactions, and members have diverse and different opinions on several things here, so if we option to compare this forum with other platforms it tends to misguide you out of the box to some place where alot of misconceptions can happen, many times some newbies come up with this type of comparison but at the end of the day, you end up not getting what actually make up for the argument bases and this has been happening alot of times before.
If we tend to compare both Bitcointalk and YouTube we may also get a misguided conclusion since both platforms offer the same services and for that, we may easily make mistakes in dealing with the actual bases of the comparison, all the same ops you tried to have taken the time to put write up out for better education and your detail explanantio6of the two platform shows some detail explanation of the whole thing.

Firstly, I will congratulate your efforts in putting down something to look creative though it's not creative enough as the nail point was set aside and kept beating around the bush.

Additionally, my point of view is quite different from what you have said about YouTube.
Let me buttress, Everything has its own purpose, YouTube, GitHub and Bitcointalk has different purposes and all serves it's purpose very well.
YouTube Is a visual educational ground that teaches alot of things including Bitcoin knowledge in diverse ways, it could be the positive or negative information in all depends on the seeker to focus on the information which he/she wants. YouTube is as important as the compared places to learn about Bitcoin because there are lot of people who don't understand much reading but learn faster when watching videos, that's where YouTube comes in to help.

GitHub Is more like a library where you can read to master Bitcoin. It serves it's own purpose just as YouTube too.

Bitcointalk Is a forum, or a global group conversation that Bitcoin fans communication what there might have learnt from both youtube and GitHub.

Hope I have made something clear a little bit....

I agree. Information on YouTube can be censored on two levels. One by YouTube itself and the other is by the content or creator. YouTube can decide to bring down a video or ban a channel which they think is putting out “misleading information” or something that’s against their TOS, you are getting blocked. Also content creators can censor their comment sections and delete comments that don’t support the content they are posting.


A forum will always be better for learning because there is room for discussion and debate unlike YouTube, where everything is one sided and viewers are expected to swallow everything they watch online.

Well, I’m sorry but I couldn’t read all your topic, it’s so long. However, your effort is very appreciated sharing your point of view.

I don’t necessarily agree with you in many points, we can’t say that youtube isn’t a good source of informations and tutorials. It’s only the way you pick and choose good channels and YouTubers to follow. Some stuff about Bitcoin are better to be explained with a video and animation for a quick and easy understanding.
Let’s take for instance Blockchain, when I heard about it first time or actually read about it, I had to go through Youtube and search for an educational video with animation and took me only few minutes to fully understand it. If I was only depending on Bitcointalk or articles it will take hours for me to take up with.

The great thing about Bitcointalk simply is talking, asking questions, and users also explaining and correcting your wrong informations. It’s better to use both for education purposes, take the good things and avoid the spam and bad things from them.

Is there supposed to be a comparison between a cryptocurrency forum and a YouTube which has no niche but rather an open ground for everyone. I remember that one of the mods of bitcointalk or group of people started a bitcointalk channel in YouTube. Can you also confidently compare bitcointalk with twitter or facebook? Bitcointalk is outstanding because it has a nich and is the king of the niche.

Talking about general information, YouTube is better than bitcointalk.
Talking about a place to learn skills, YouTube is also better,
But talking about cryptocurrency information, bitcointalk remains undefeated as it stands out among others. There are many people in the bitcointalk forum who are willing to give out valuable information about Bitcointalk and cryptocurrency at larger just for free.

Isn't it stupid to compare a forum with a Video streaming/sharing platform? Both have their legacy. Bitcointalk cannot be like YouTube and YouTube cannot be like Bitcoin Talk. The user base is not the same. I often watch YouTube videos to solve issues like setting up a new operating system. Last week I bought a new router so I could flash OpenWRT into it and use WIFI according to my wish.

YouTube helped me a lot when I was having trouble flashing it in Windows. Then I found another video that showed how easy it is to flush OpenWRT with a Linux operating system. A video tutorial can explain a thousand times better than a text article. On the other hand, A video could be unable to explain better than a text article. You have to understand the difference. It's a stupid thing to compare them.

No one should choose between Bitcointalk or Youtub eto learn about crypto, everyone can learn from both, and many more other places. Not everyone like to learn by reading, other might prefer videos for learning, and that's when Youtube come along. While Bitcointalk give more space for more social interaction between crypto enthusiast with more deep discussion. You don't need to compare it or eliminate one for the other just use both.

so you want to compare bitcoutalk and youtube in terms of educational? actually there is no need to compare these two platforms because the two platforms are useful for people who want to learn bitcoin. for example for a beginner, they might find out in advance about bitcoin in videos on youtube and then when they want to learn more about bitcoin they can join bitcoink and interact with other users here.

On forum, it's hard to take you to a link where I want you to signup just because I will make money out of it.
On YouTube, you will be forced to understand any news or a new concept in Bitcoin or Technology with the perspective of the content creator.
However, over here you read it yourself and interpret it as you want it to be.

If you are looking for specific knowledge about bitcoin, then bitcointalk is the key. You will learn not only bitcoin but the whole crypto market, as well as altcoins, meme coins and shitcoins. You can also gained learning experiences from the pioneers who enter the crypto market at its early years.

However, if you are in search of various topics that would create interest to the people and its viewers, YouTube is the one. But not all YouTube influencers are proven legit and reasonable.  Some are just trying to pinpoint their own concept about the topic and just like want to share what's going on in their own mind.

In a sense, video with graphical representation can be easily understood than wall of text, so youtube have an advantage than the forum, but the richness of information that is written and posted in Bitcointalk forum is one of the major sources of the created video in youtube unless the video creator intently misinform the public.

I think both platform are essential but if one wanted a more decentralized opinion and varieties of information about cryptocurrency, Bitcointalk forum is way much better than a video created in YT platform.

Compare Bitcoin Talk forum and Youtube channels from influencers is comparison between knowledge and pure marketing, hook to sale their Youtube channels even without much knowledge to share from their videos.

how influencer marketing is full of deception, bots, and dodgy data (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpOyq-Qu1aw).

Do you want to learn from Bitcoin Talk community or from Youtube Influencers?

I guess I will be more into forum rather than seeking information on youtube since not everything on facebook is true since there's a lot of fake like scams and click baits posted for views or to scam people. That's why its important to have critical thinking regarding on what we see so that we will not get carried away by misinformation.

So I usually prefer this forum since the information we read is base on opinion of people which do a lot of research that's why they go on that conclusions. Although not all here is true but at least we can see real people dealing with some interesting information compare on believing on single opinion coming from a influencer which we don't know if he really have deep knowledge about his content.

I don't really see a reason for this comparison as Bitcointalk is unique in it's operations. This is a forum that has many things to offer there some comparison that are not necessarily need to be made in the first place.

Yes, both are places of knowledge, and we can learn from both, but bitcointalk is more interactive, and if they say I should choose the most preferable one, I will go for bitcointalk, maybe because it's an open place and maybe because I'm used to it already, and people don't like reading, and people learn better from illustrations and pictures, and it's usually more fun, but because of the data consumption, it's better to my finds here. And YouTubers indeed explain things better than anyone else, and even now, people can't live without it, and people on bitcointalk still make references to things on YouTube. especially people who trade always like consulting YouTube for strategies and information.

Yes, perhaps it is better to gain your knowledge by using various social media platforms to expand your references, whether on this forum, YT, or other social media to increase the credibility of the data you are looking for / someone's perception of something you are looking for.

As for the problem of scams or phishing links, this forum has also had them before, but we should know to anticipate those things wherever we look for information.
I hesitate to compare YT with Bitcointalk Forum, because basically forum ii is a place to discuss, not just video content that you can only watch, then you comment on it which is not necessarily read by the content owner himself.

All media has its own advantages and disadvantages, so we just need to be careful in using it to be safe, in terms of the knowledge provided, in my opinion, it cannot be compared, because the bitcointalk forum is written content and YT is video-based content.

It seems like you wasted too much energy creating this thread, you can discuss it briefly without having to write at length in understanding the information about Bitcoin explained on YouTube and on Bitcointalk. Satoshi goal was to establish the Bitcointalk forum to discuss everything related to Bitcoin. You can get more complete information here than on YouTube.
You can also ask directly here if there is something you don't understand, you can also gain additional knowledge about Bitcoin after reading useful topics shared by other users. I think you can get insight into Bitcoin after watching videos on YouTube, but you will get more information on Bitcointalk and it will be easier to understand methods that are considered complicated because you will be directed to the end here.

It's never wrong to create educational content and to go into detail because from what you can read in my OP, many reasons are around, why Bitcointalk is leagues better compared to YouTube.


Good point made!
Scams are rampant on YouTube and facebook. Meanwhile Bitcointalk has a section, where scam gets exposed and it's not easy for scammers to place scam ads on Bitcointalk unnoticed. 

YouTube can never equal or equate bitcointalk platform. Like the other members here have said, YouTube is just a social media that communicate through video and has no to for interactive session but bitcointalk platform is not that way.

Bitcointalk is more of a community structure which encourages interaction amongst members. It is more of an educative platform where where you can ask questions and learn more from members and participants response to your questions. You can meet people from different walks of life and having a good conversation or discussion with them to build up your capacity inline with your goals.

If I may ask you OP, would you have learnt about Bitcoin properly from YouTube if you did not have identified with this platform?

I don't like YouTube because in my opinion, it is not a good platform for really difficult explanations of Bitcoin and Blockchain topics, where is can be better explained in a detailed text.

Comparing bitcointalk with YouTube is like comparing airplane with a motor car, how does the both relate? We know the both are a means of traveling, and one is way faster than the other, But the fact remains that this both operate in their different realms and levels, they are not to be compared.

Youtube is YouTube and Bitcointalk is Bitcointalk, there is no competition of any kind between this two platforms, I honestly do not see any reason why this two should be compared, those who are sourcing bitcoin information on youtube will do so, while those who sourcing bitcoin information from this forum are also here.

Let a plane be a plane and let a car be a car, there is no competition and no comparison.

This is the difference between bitcointalk platform and YouTube. No room for enteractive session if one has any difficulty in learning and understanding on YouTube but here on this platform, you can ask questions and get elaborate explanations from members who are knowledgeable enough to guide you through till you are well groomed in the system.

I think YouTube videos are just for the content creators to make money for themselves without really thinking about their listeners understanding of the information they have passed across. YouTube content creators barely responds to questions if at all the leave the comment session open for conversations.

Both are good resources for someone who wants to learn Bitcoin. IMHO, there's no need for any comparison on it. As long as a material or a website is helpful in educating people the topics that we want to learn, they're good.

Bitcointalk, YouTube and even Google, they're all part of everyone's resource and we're learning from all of them.

As long as put into good use, these platforms truly have vast information that one can learn with as long as that person is willing to learn and is patient.

Bitcointalk cause if you post about YouTube here, members will warn you about it, lol. Also, it's lot easier to communicate on forum for follow-up questions.

I still go to YT, when I need to be guided step by step, as it's lot easier in videos. But, I do not follow any channels, they are filled with clickbaits most of time, as you mentioned.

No, everyone won't. Just like you did not say that Bitcointalk is better than YouTube, but you have pointed out why YouTube is important, too. I  don't think there are more legitimate sources than BitcoinTalk in the crypto space, where you may get the most accurate guide. But the problem is not everyone will understand just by reading the text. If you want your guide to be more understandable, you could record your screen and share what you were talking about. This is how YouTube has become one of my favorite platforms to learn anything. The problem is the content creators want views. That's why they publish bullshit videos without even knowing what they are talking about. But the ratio is not too big. You have to filter some legit content creators!

Maybe that's just your opinion, while other people also have different opinions on this matter, because YouTube is usually used to create explanations that contain both in one content (Text and Video) which will be uploaded after everything is finished. However, quite a few people also use the YouTube platform to make money through more creative content, such as vloggers and viewers of certain products. So actually the YouTube platform is also unlimited if someone knows how to use it well, although if we compare it with this forum, it is no less interesting to use.

Bitcointalk should not be compared to YouTube cause her run this community we can learn a lot of things a reliable things which is accurate. Cause this forum we can saw many  discussion of cryptocurrency and Bitcoin so through this forum we can learn and know what we want to know. Actually in YouTube there are many influencers who discussed good and reliable about the specific topic but always remember nowadys there are many fake news and information so it's better to be vigilant.

In terms of education, Bitcointalk is easier to learn and understand all the content written on Bitcointalk than on YouTube. The differences between the two are very different, because of the context, understanding the contents of topics that contain discussions in them will be easier to understand about Bitcoin than what is explained in YouTube videos which are standard and difficult to get answers because there is no official discussion there.

Lastly, I just suggest that you create a topic that is straight to the point, writing at length like this makes most members on the forum skip reading it. A concise post with a solid topic content is better than a long one where most of the writing just revolves around it.

Yes, both are providing us relevant information when it comes to crypto. You can chose to watch interesting crypto videos from youtube or you can simply read legit posts from bitcointalk which are mostly derived from their personal crypto experiences.

However, one should learn to filter some of the information given from youtube since majority of the youtubers only create hype and fuds just to attract viewers. But there are also few crypto influencers who have genuine intention to educate its viewers through providing legit and high quality information. The challenge here is to identify legit information from those unrelliable and illicit ones.

I don't even see any reason why the forum should be compared to YouTube at the first place. This does not reason match at all.
This kind of post is been written by newbie that do not really know what Bitcointalk was created for. This is not a learning platforms like YouTube or any other platform. Bitcointalk was created to help promote Bitcoin at the first place so that people can learn more about Bitcoin and ask questions with different opinions to help people that are desperate to know about Bitcoin.

The comparison is literally unmatched.

If you want to get information as it regards bitcoin or any other cryptocurrency from YouTube, what you get majorly is an information from a single individual who want to talk you into believing what he his saying by all means so you will come back for more. To enable him do this, he will resort to using any known means which including unnecessary hype that could lead to serious misinformation but because this is coming from a single source, you don't see others coming to refute whatever wrong analogy he is actually painting because in the real sense, the majority if people looking out for those videos are newbie that don't know or have prior knowledge on bitcoin and cryptocurrency  before now.

Bitcointalk.com on the is a community that is made up of the newbies, the experienced and some super experienced individual that share their wealth of knowledge together. This in the first place is a crypto niche and so you don't expect that a platform like YouTube could have a chance of going head to head with it regarding sharing if content.