I remember the new forum plan going on for like a decade lol it became kind of a meme for me. I checked back up on it a couple months ago and yeah it looks like they're no longer pursuing it. I actually want to develop a chat feature for bitcointalk myself and I've had personal interest over the years on making a general forum software so forums can take over the internet again since I don't like the segmented thread design that has taken over and is used by sites like reddit. So maybe if I make this new and improved general forum software that many sites can implement then possibly bitcointalk would implement it as well. I will most likely first work on the chat feature for bitcointalk though, as long as people want it of course.

As far as the spam I think it's still very bad, it seems like most people are just farming posts for signature campaign payouts. The quality isn't anywhere near what it was early in bitcointalk. Even when people shitposted early in the forums history at least those posts were kind of endearing, the shitposts now are just slop.

I think something that could liven up bitcointalk is a chat feature, it could be like a live chat where you can continuously talk with others. Think of it like a chatroom/trollbox where you could chat with many other people at once or even one on one. If there was chat I think this would make even more people stay on bitcointalk and take part in the discussion. If we wanted to we could even integrate some more complex chat features like discord or telegram does. What does everyone think about this? A chat feature integrated directly into the forum, we have bitcointalk so now we could bring some bitcoinchat into it 

This is a great way to look at it and I bet a lot of early buyers wish they followed this train of thought. So many people had thousands of Bitcoin in the early days which they sold for pennies. Always hodl should be the motto, at this point I feel like $1 million per bitcoin is a given it just feels guaranteed to happen. buy your btc and set it aside to be untouched. It might help people to have a collectible mentality to Bitcoin, collect them like they're special rare coins that have sentimental value and don't sell them for garbage fiat.

But on another side what you're saying is also true in a literal sense lol, because to many people are using custodial bitcoin platforms now where other entities hold their coins. Not your keys not your coins so in many peoples cases their bitcoin literally isn't even theirs.

The reason other crypto could exist alongside Bitcoin was because in the past Bitcoin didn't really have defi, it was a crypto used only for payment transactions. But now with ordinals, runes and other stuff Bitcoin defi is a thing. I think this will result in the defi from others chains coming home to Bitcoin which will make a lot of other chains obsolete. So now that Bitcoin has defi yeah I think it's going to end up killing of a lot of other crypto.

Everyone working so hard to crack the puzzle and then one day when quantum computing is here someone will take it all easily without even trying

It seems like retail is less involved this run and there's not many smaller buyers and it's more institutions buying btc this run, so that could be one reason transaction fees aren't to high. When instead of millions of people buying smaller amounts each sending their own transactions you instead have a smaller amount of buyers buying bigger amounts and sending less transactions the mempool will be less congested.

We need to create a huge movement to get Roger freed, Trump pardoned Ross so we should try to get him to give a pardon to Roger as well. It's possible but for it to happen everyone needs to support this. Let's get Roger free

Yeah that's not a good BIP, no longer using sat to discuss Bitcoins smallest unit would mess with the magic of Bitcoin.

That's very true that all the attention will be on Bitcoin hitting $1 million. I just notice no one ever brings up the fact that Bitcoin hitting $1 million means a sat would be worth 1 cent so it's just an interesting fact. I think the sat to cent parity will be talked about much more once people actually realize it but still it won't overshadow the commotion of Bitcoin hitting $1 million.

Should we refer to this upcoming event as the centening?

Another thought I had since today is Bitcoin Pizza Day. Many people talk about how someone spent 10k btc on a pizza and it has turned into a huge meme. Most people don't know about the new forum software but if they did I think they would meme about how forum users spent 11k btc on new forum software that never really went anywhere and it would become a huge meme. It's more expensive than the bitcoin pizza as well lol. That 11k btc is now worth over $1.2 billion since bitcoin just passed $110k, that's some expensive forum software   It's really one of the most expensive softwares of all time and as btc price increases it can maybe become THE most expensive software of all time. It might already be the most expensive software that never got completed. (right next to star citizen  )

The new forum software has been a meme for me over the decade or so since it was announced. At first I was excited for it but over the years it just became a meme imo with how long it was taking so good to have some closure now I guess. I think the intention behind it was good though but sometimes things just don't work out.

A better idea instead of having a set team to work on it might be to have it more fluid. Like Theymos himself said he and some other members of the community made updates to the current forum software themself and not the team that was hired for epochtalk. I think we can take a decentralized approach to the new forum software instead of relying on a specific time. Of course you can say Epochtalk was already opensourced but the reality was there was a big expectation that the epochtalk team would develop epochtalk, especially because they were paid to do so. There was no expectation for epochtalk to be developed in a decentralized manner by community members. So I say we revamp this idea of the new forum software. Instead of depending on a team let's make this a decentralized effort from the outset and develop the new forum software for bitcointalk in a decentralized manner. I think this would have much more potential of actually materializing into something useful.

A point against a new forum software though is that like others have said in the thread we have lots of nostalgia for bitcointalk at this point and many don't want to see it look to different. When the new forum software was announced a decade ago of course people liked the current look of btctalk but we didn't have the level of nostalgia for it as we do now so changing things wouldn't have affected us as much back then. However with how the crypto space has changed since back then imo it makes it even more important to have bitcointalk as a beacon of the old days and most of the OG feel should be kept the same. However I think we can still create a new forum software that still carries over the OG feel of bitcointalk. We just need to design it properly.

Forums in general have been in a decline all over the internet, most platforms now are thread based which isn't that great. I really prefer forums to thread based platforms. The forums of the good old days have a much better feel. So with this New Forum Software we could use it as an initiative not just for bitcointalk but to help forums become more of a thing across the internet again. I think that's something a lot of people could get behind.

Over the years a lot of Bitcoin/crypto discussion has left this forum. Another goal of this new forum software initiative could be to have activity and discussion return to bitcointalk.

This felt like a big moment when it happened years ago, I feel like at some point in the near future most countries will have Bitcoin as their main currency.

Good buying opportunity is all I think about when I hear about microstrategy potentially dumping all its Bitcoin. Remember that Bitcoin has never really been through a serious recession/depression. When the next big recession happens it wouldn't be surprising to see the Bitcoin price go down and since microstrategy is heavily leveraged they would be more affected than average by a big downturn. I think we could see sub $10k Bitcoin at some point in the future and that would obliterate microstrategy. So for the people that are liquid at that time it will be an awesome buying opportunity. Maybe we'll see drop to $10k then a run up to $1 million per btc  

I believe the government along with blackrock and other entities are also greatly manipulating btc now and they have some vested in btc dumping, most likely so they can corner more supply. The government and their fiat banking system always pull this bs so it's not surprising to see them try the same thing here, they are toxic to bitcoin and people shouldn't have cheered on them getting involved. Funny thing is Saylor and microstrategy were one of the biggest cheerleaders of the government getting involved into Bitcoin because he thought they would help him. Then at Trumps crypto day he was facepalming when he saw what Trump was doing. That is a little foreshadowing of what will happen. The governments manipulating will be one reason bitcoin has a downturn and that in turn will lead to microstrategy getting obliterated. Moral of the story is government lovers and fiat lovers will get owned so never cheer the government on or you'll get what's coming to you.

Bitcoin is a hedge against the entire fiat garbage money system and yes that includes inflation.

Staying away from Bitcoin is one of the worst decisions someone could make. Of course you won't make as big as a profit compared to if you bought in 2012 but Bitcoin still has room to grow. The people that have no btc will be left behind so they should get in while they still can.

Sorry didn't mean a profile picture like his actual face, I was talking about the avatars that some users have. If he didn't have any avatar on bitcointalk maybe he had one on another forum or site that he used.

I was looking at Satoshi's profile and noticed that it had no picture, did he ever use a profile picture on his bitcointalk account? Did he have one previously and delete it? Although I guess he might have never had one because I think bitcointalk might have added profile pictures as a feature years after the site went live, or maybe that's gif profile pictures I'm thinking of and not regular images. Sorry if it's a dumb question but it's just something that just came to mind.

No need to "wait for bitcoin to thrive", it's been thriving for years. Even though people may be sick of us being around $28k remember how big of a jump this is back in times when we were hovering around a couple hundred for years. Or back at the start when Bitcoin had no value. If you got in early you'd love the fact that bitcoin is $28k. So for the people that aren't in yet get in now and in a future bull run when Bitcoin is $1 million you'll be looking back at this and be thankful you got in while you had the chance. It could take years for another bull run or it could happen quick but either way I feel like it's a guarantee Bitcoin will continue to grow.

I just got on my bitcointalk account and saw I had a bunch of messages saying a mod deleted my posts from 7-2 months ago. None of these posts look like they violate any rules so I thought it was odd. Is there any reason for this?