RFC: new IRC channel #bitcoin

[jgarzik]

The current IRC channel #bitcoin-dev on freenode is increasingly becoming a user support channel.

I propose that we recommend (and list on http://www.bitcoin.org/contact ) using #bitcoin for everything not related to development and highly technical issues.

#bitcoin on freenode is largely dead, and appears quite usable for new purposes.  a few (older? modified?) clients use #bitcoin for IRC seeding, but these clients get less frequent over time.

The "gribble" bot recommends using #bitcoin-discussion, but using #bitcoin seems simpler and more direct (and less to type).

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[genjix]

logical. yes.

[nanotube]

problem is, #bitcoin is orphaned. we have no ops there, and will not for the foreseeable future. the first time the channel is attacked by trolls/spambots/etc, you will suddenly realize that it's good to have ops.

that's the reason we currently recommend #bitcoin-discussion, because we have control of that channel.

[sirius]

Who owns #bitcoin-talk?

[jgarzik]

Who owns #bitcoin-talk?

Looks free and available, to me.

[nanotube]

I posted a poll on channel name selection on the forum:
http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2159.0

[awwright]

#bitcoin currently isn't registered, why not simply register it? If the Bitcoin project is registered as a project with Freenode (As it should be) it would get control over the entire #bitcoin namespace (#bitcoin-*).

[jgarzik]

#bitcoin currently isn't registered, why not simply register it? If the Bitcoin project is registered as a project with Freenode (As it should be) it would get control over the entire #bitcoin namespace (#bitcoin-*).

See what nanotube said, earlier in this thread.

[awwright]

See what nanotube said, earlier in this thread.

What about it?