[Overview] The one thread to link them all

[shorena]

This is an attempt to collect and order every single important, useful or interesting thread for bitcointalk.org. This is for now based on my personal watchlist and thus can not be complete. If you think a thread is missing post a link and an ultra short (few words) summary below.

Disclaimer: Some of these threads might be outdated and/or contain wrong information. A linked thread does not equal endorsement.

• Altcoins
  
  • Alt coins 101 - how to be careful and avoid scams
  • Exchanges - list of altcoin and bitcoin exchanges
  • Map of coins - visualizes the history of cryptocurrencies (actual info is on external site).
  • Malware in altcoins - when your anti virus fails.
  • Overview - list of altcoins (outdated).
  • rpietila Altcoin Observer - overview over altcoins (outdated).
  • Shop and Servies - accepting altcoins (outdated).
• Bitcointalk
  
  • Activity periods - explained, also links to a handy spreadsheet.
  • Alt accounts - deprecated.
  • Alt accounts - a list of known alternative or additional accounts of users.
  • BBCode Lessons & Tutorials - how to make your posts and/or signatures look good.
  • DannyHamilton's ignore list - helps you remove trash posters from your reading experience.
  • Default Trust Network - a visualisation
  • Default Trust Network - get a weekly data dump (trust.txt.xz), etc.
  • Default Trust Network - we need a better system discussion thread
  • Discouraged by the community - a list of things that are punished by the community but are not against the rules.
  • Evil points - a visualisation
  • FAQ - commonly asked questions and answers.
  • Hacked Account? - how to recover it
  • Harmony and Discord
  • Hidden pages - a collection of undocumented or hard to find bitcointalk pages.
  • New Forum - list of requirements
  • PGP public keys for Satoshi, Admins, Staff as well as regular members.
  • Potential activity counting bot
  • Ranks/positions/badges - What do those shiny coins under my name mean?
  • Rules - unofficial collection and FAQ, covers most forum related things and links to other important threads regarding the forum.
  • Secret question - recovery can lock your account.
  • Security Bounties
  • Signature Adblock Script - helps you block annoying signatures
  • Stake your address to allow account recovery via signed message
  • Trust score - exact algorithm.
• Educational
  
  • Bitcoin Tools - a growing collection of online tools around bitcoin.
  • Beginners Guide
  • Blockchain split - statement by Meni Rosenfeld
  • Boards and Forums - list of alternative bitcoin and altcoin boards.
  • Documentaries on Bitcoin - Summary Thread.
  • Fees and unconfirmed transactions - what to do if your transaction is stuck.
  • How to earn Bitcoins - a [General] thread by Lauda
  • Lightning Network - FAQ.
  • Memorize a seed - how to.
  • Papers, Journals etc. on Bitcoin - a collection
  • Papers, Journals etc. on Bitcoin - a very old collection
  • Signatures - how to create and verify them
  • Stay safe - Security Tips
  • Terminology - Commonly used abbreviations, words, names and phrases on bitcointalk.
  • TV series and Bitcoin - the debunking thread.
  • Verifying Bitcoin Core - explanation by theymos on how to verify the bitcoin core client was not modified.
  • Viruses - tips to avoid them
• History
  
  • 2010 Pizza for 10000 Bitcoin
  • 2011 Brain damage due to GPU mining.
  • 2011 Paritiy Party - bitcoin reach 1 USD for the first time.
  • 2012 DPR pays 100 BTC for tech support.
  • 2013 Top 500 richlist. (outdated)
• Marketplace
  
  • Advertising Networks - paying in bitcoin
  • Auction 101
  • Avatar campaigns - overview thread.
  • Bitcoin scam sites - list of known scam sites.
  • Bitcointalk.org Designers - Signatures, Avatars, Logos, overview table with trust ratings.
  • Cloudmining 101 ponzi risk assessment.
  • Collateral why you shouldn't loan without it.
  • Debit cards powered by bitcoin.
  • Escrow list of active escrows
  • Escrow how does it work
  • Exchanges - review collection
  • Faucets - possible risks
  • Faucets - how to make your own.
  • Faucets - tipps and tricks against bots.
  • Faucet rotator - how to make your own.
  • Free Bitcoin
  • Gambling - overview and review of popular gambling sites.
  • HODL
  • How to earn Bitcoin overview thread
  • LEALANA - physical coins mintage and coin list.
  • Lending 101
  • Lending - a list of active and defaulted loans
  • Lost and Found list of accidental transactions
  • Major Bitcoin Heists, Thefts, Hacks, Scams, and Losses
  • Number range guessing games - best practices.
  • Paypal and other reversible transfer services
  • Ponzi Monitor
  • Scam Spotting 101
  • Signature campaigns overview thread
  • Signature campaign managers
  • Signature campaign bans - FAQ
  • Speculation collection of websites
  • Speculation Wall Observer, Bitcoin price discussion mega thread
  • Spending Bitcoin - A list of useful every day sites for spending bitcoins.
  • Trading advice - Escrow, Social Engineering, Carding, Steam refunds, etc.
• Mining
  
  • 21 Inc. - Bitcoin computer software teardown and analysis.
  • 3 months in a multi-petahash BTC mine in China
  • An introduction
  • Dogie's Hardware Guides - Antminer S7 (latest). (meta/overview thread)
  • Empty blocks - stats, reasons, overall discussion thread.
  • Hardware manufacturers overview thread.
  • Hosting - a list of mining friendly hosting providers.
  • SPV Mining - why it's bad or good (discussion) and what do against it.
• Technical
  
  • Bitcoin Core - latest version 0.13.1.
  • Blockchain data torrent - no longer needed with newer versions of bitcoin core, but still viable in some situations.
  • Burn Addresses a list of known addresses without private key.
  • Brute force a wallet
  • Dev weekly IRC meetings in layman's terms by G1lius.
    
    • 2016-01-28
    • 2016-01-21
    • 2016-01-14
    • 2016-01-07
    • 2015-12-17
    • 2015-12-10
    • 2015-12-03
    • 2015-11-26
    • 2015-11-19
    • 2015-11-12
    • 2015-11-05
    • 2015-10-29
    • 2015-10-22
  • Cold wallet - data transfer via minimodem
  • Dev Mailling List
  • Fee booster - got a stuck transaction and your wallet cant RBF, now you can.
  • Full node implementations - an overview.
  • Hacked - what to do
  • Hashmal - Transaction Script IDE
  • Large Bitcoin Colider - Brute Force all the things
  • Midstate compression for coinbase TX commitments - discussion.
  • Pull request - how to contribute to bitcoin core
  • Pywallet - python based tool to modify bitcoin core wallets
  • Raspberry Pi 2 B - full node guide
  • secp256k1 - good infromation about bitcoins eliptic curve by gmaxwell
  • Seed compatibility matrix - which HD seed can be use with which wallet.
  • Sig OPS - a blockchain attack explained.
  • Tor - how-to set-up tor on linux and connect bitcoin.
  • Transactions - 0 Fee and confirmation time FAQ
  • Vanity - create custom addresses
  • Vanity - create custom addresses on your phone (very old thread)
  • Wallets - overview with focus on online wallets, exchanged and their security.
  • Wallets - Which, what, why?.
  • Wallets - Overview of hardware wallets.
  • Wallets - Overview of hardware wallets and nodes.
• Various other
  
  • ARG Puzzle #1 solved 3.5 BTC prize.(this post includes a link to a summary pdf)
  • ARG Puzzle #2 The Legend of Satoshi Nakamato - unsolved 4.87 BTC prize
  • Charities - IRS 501(c)(3) Public Charities that accept bitcoin.
  • Chess bitcointalk.org vs. a professional
  • Comic by Ahmad Al-hemmally
  • Jokes
  • Lost coins - an attempt to figure out how many coins have been lost forever.
  • Satoshi's 1st post.
  • Vanity Addresses - hall of fame.

Contributions sorted by awesomeness (alphabetical on tie)

Code:

8 - mexxer-2
6 - knightdk (aka achow101)
6 - OmegaStarScream
4 - freedomno1
3 - capcher
3 - MadGamer
3 - Mitchełł (aka Mitchell)
3 - SFR10
2 - dogie
2 - dothebeats
2 - Lauda
2 - minifrij
2 - sportis
1 - bL4nkcode
1 - Biitcoin
1 - Elwar
1 - ETFbitcoin
1 - InvoKing
1 - kingcolex
1 - Lutpin
1 - Mickeyb
1 - pereira4
1 - Winalunt
1 - YarkoL

todo:

Code:

more mining related material
more alt coin related material

changelog (noteable changes):

Code:

2015.11.12 - moved to beginners and help
2015.11.10 - added years to history section
2015.11.09 - added history section
2015.10.27 - added altcoin section
2015.10.23 - added mining section
2015.10.22 - added list of contributions
2015.10.22 - started thread

[mexxer-2]

Here is another thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1087042.0 . Seeing as you added Signature campaign thread, an avatar campaign thread should be added as well.
P.S: Good idea, btw there should also be a thread for the recent drama, eg: marco's hacked account selling, QS drama, dicebitcoin drama, dice.ninja drama... and the list just goes on.

[shorena]

Here is another thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1087042.0 . Seeing as you added Signature campaign thread, an avatar campaign thread should be added as well.
P.S: Good idea, btw there should also be a thread for the recent drama, eg: marco's hacked account selling, QS drama, dicebitcoin drama, dice.ninja drama... and the list just goes on.

Added the avatar thread thanks. I not like the idea to add drama threads, but I will keep it mind if there is more demand.

[mexxer-2]

Here is another thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1087042.0 . Seeing as you added Signature campaign thread, an avatar campaign thread should be added as well.
P.S: Good idea, btw there should also be a thread for the recent drama, eg: marco's hacked account selling, QS drama, dicebitcoin drama, dice.ninja drama... and the list just goes on.

Added the avatar thread thanks. I not like the idea to add drama threads, but I will keep it mind if there is more demand.

I meant someone could make a "Latest Drama" thread to keep up with the news in bitcointalk. And BTW just remembered another one: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1205533.0 for people who like to think about several points before investing in a ponzi, honestly I think ponzis shouldn't be promoted but seeing that people even invest in dying ponzis like scrypt or ponzis that will run if they get even a 0.005 deposit, it may help some newbies.
And shouldn't this be in meta as it directly refers to the forum?

[OmegaStarScream]

Good stuff , now this is going to be sticked for sure , my thread on the top  .
Alright , here you go another thread about wallets and difference between them basically : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1213406.0 I'm helping OP to update it as-well , so I may add more information's on it once I come back from school .

[dothebeats]

Hmm, drama threads could probably be located in the Off-topic section. It could get a child board there. As for some useful threads, I think you should add the Stake your bitcoin address thread here for future reference. Also, appropriate board for this is in Meta.

[shorena]

Good stuff , now this is going to be sticked for sure , my thread on the top  .

Its alphabetical

Alright , here you go another thread about wallets and difference between them basically : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1213406.0 I'm helping OP to update it as-well , so I may add more information's on it once I come back from school .

added thanks

Hmm, drama threads could probably be located in the Off-topic section. It could get a child board there. As for some useful threads, I think you should add the Stake your bitcoin address thread here for future reference. Also, appropriate board for this is in Meta.

added thanks.

I guess meta is the correct section, but I started it here so it is found easier. Might be a discussion in itself where this should be.

[freedomno1]

I see terminology in there Huzzah
I'll throw in a few threads as they come up on my list I'm sure there are hidden gems buried somewhere that I forgot about but this is a nice thread and thanks for organizing it.

EDIT IN: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=456691.0
Might be useful to put Dogies thread as an archive.

[SFR10]

This is really great, just added it to my bookmark lists and thanks for shorena and all the contributes made by forum members as well ... I was wondering if few other threads could be added to the list ,like for instance a thread for all the coders / developers / designers and etc ... If so, I'll be more than happy to collect information's regarding those

[dothebeats]

Bingo. Found one thread that is very helpful to all people in this forum. Old, but gold.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=159424.msg1685280#msg1685280

[OmegaStarScream]

Bingo. Found one thread that is very helpful to all people in this forum. Old, but gold.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=159424.msg1685280#msg1685280

It basically contains few information's that I already listed on my topic , if shorena is okey with it and I can update my topic later and add information's from the link you just posted , that way we will have one topic instead of two and no one get confused .

[shorena]

Bingo. Found one thread that is very helpful to all people in this forum. Old, but gold.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=159424.msg1685280#msg1685280

It basically contains few information's that I already listed on my topic , if shorena is okey with it and I can update my topic later and add information's from the link you just posted , that way we will have one topic instead of two and no one get confused .

I dont think its a problem to have more than one thread for the same topic, but I think that particular thread might not get updated anymore. Two or three threads for the same topic can avoid a too narrow view on things.

[Elwar]

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=943143.0

Spending bitcoins: A list of useful every day sites for spending bitcoins.

[avatar_kiyoshi]

Very useful thread.

I have a suggestion, here review bitcoin exchanges thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=695082.0

[Mickeyb]

Very nice and helpful thread Shorena! Thanks for doing this. This will help a lot of people, new ones and us older ones. I have already seen many useful threads that I wasn't aware of before.

Is there a way to pin this thread at the top so it stays visible all of the time?

Thanks!

[pereira4]

Really nice, I was looking for the original infamous 10000 pizza transaction. It turns it was 2 pizzas, so 5000 BTC for 1 pizza, not that bad of a deal
I would add to the list the best satoshi quotes. A lot of people come to this forum to learn about satoshi and are curious to see what he was like when he posted. A "Satoshi" section with the best threads and posts by him would be good imo.

[RustyNomad]

Thanks for the effort to put this together shorena, bookmarked for future reference.

Its like having a quick reference index for the forum now. Will post any threads I think deserve to be included.

[okae]

and now is when i must say, THANK YOU Shorena!, for this great thread, there is some useful threads that i didn't see yet.

i will take this thread as a reference if you continue working on it for sure.

[dothebeats]

Added to my watch list. Mind adding the most vital part in the forum: the list of rules in using this forum. In linking that particular thread here (though it is stickied in Meta already), one can still see it as a reminder of how to use this forum properly.

[InvoKing]

Nice sherona, clean and well organised topic 

Can i suggest to add this (ranks... etc) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178608.0 i didn't see it in the list and I think it is one of the important topic for every new bitcoiners.