🏆 Bitcointalk Community Awards [Results of the Year + Quiz]

[icopress]

Summing up the Community Awards 2020, I would like to express my gratitude to everyone who took part in the voting, as well as everyone who supported this initiative. Well-deserved congratulations to all winners and nominees representing a wide variety of areas and thanks to all those who continue to make Bitcointalk better.

Below is information about the results of the Bitcointalk Community Awards 2020 ^[Voting], do not be surprised if you find your name, it just means that you are part of the circle of people who form the core of the forum. We have also prepared a thematic Quiz related to the history of Bitcointalk and Bitcoin.

	- Answer 20 questions, test your Bitcointalk know-how     - Four answer options / Only one correct answer     - The quizz is over / 200 users     - Link: https://app.involve.me/bitcointalk/test-your-bitcointalk-know-how
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     What about the prizes?

Although public recognition is the most prestigious award, we also want to present the winners with modest prizes sponsored by Cyrus & Cryptios. T-shirts will be sent to all winners (to all who feel that their confidentiality will not be violated). Below are the T-shirt layouts for the respective categories. In the near future, we will contact the winners to clarify details regarding design and delivery.

hilariousandco	suchmoon	Rikafip	CryptopreneurBrainboss
Ratimov ______________________________	o_e_l_e_o ______________________________	LoyceV ______________________________	Hhampuz ______________________________

	Best Forum Moderator	hilariousandco (55), mprep (40), Cyrus (24), OmegaStarScream (13), xandry (10), Welsh (10), gmaxwell (7), Dbshck (5), mole0815 (5), Xal0lex (5), Halab (4), Mr. Big (3), achow101 (3), malevolent (3)
	SpamBuster	suchmoon (41), LoyceV (26), Lafu (25), TheBeardedBaby (15), YOSHIE (9), CryptopreneurBrainboss (9), Welsh (8), TalkStar (8), Rikafip (8), GazetaBitcoin (7), Ratimov (7), yahoo62278 (5), Coolcryptovator (4), lovesmayfamilis (3), friends1980 (3), tvplus006 (3), marlboroza (3), DarkStar_ (3)
	ScamBuster	Rikafip (31), marlboroza (26), Coolcryptovator (25), lovesmayfamilis (19), witcher_sense (14), YOSHIE (13), Nutildah (9), bullrun2020bro (8), JollyGood (8), ICOEthics (7), Ratimov (6), suchmoon (6), Lauda (6), qwertyup23 (5), TalkStar (5), $crypto$ (4), dkbit98 (4), Royse777 (4)
	Golden Feather	CryptopreneurBrainboss (39), theymos (26), LoyceV (20), The Pharmacist (12), suchmoon (9), JayJuanGee (7), DdmrDdmr (7), Hhampuz (6), Gentlemand (5), gmaxwell (4), cabalism13 (4), LFC_Bitcoin (3), Royse777 (3), qwk (3), Last of the v8s (3), satoshi (3)
	Discovery of the Year	Ratimov (31), fillippone (29), DdmrDdmr (16), NotATether (9), icopress (7), bullrun2020bro (7), zasad@ (6), Charles-Tim (5), tranthidung (4), Upgrade00 (4), Vod (4), LFC_Bitcoin (4), hosseinimr93 (3), CryptopreneurBrainboss (3), 1miau (3)
	Bitcoin Geek	o_e_l_e_o (21), theymos (17), achow101 (16), LoyceV (15), pooya87 (13), gmaxwell (12), HCP (10), Nutildah (8), satoshi (8), mk4 (7), LFC_Bitcoin (7), CryptopreneurBrainboss (5), JayJuanGee (5), igor72 (4), xenon131 (3), bob123 (3)
	Bitcointalk Ninja	LoyceV (66), TryNinja (43), DdmrDdmr (27), fillippone (9), suchmoon (8), icopress (6), theymos (6), The Pharmacist (5), qwk (4), Cyrus (4), tranthidung (4), LFC_Bitcoin (3), o_e_l_e_o (3)
	Craft Master	Hhampuz (72), yahoo62278 (35), DdmrDdmr (12), DarkStar_ (11), LoyceV (7), Jayce (7), CryptopreneurBrainboss (7), suchmoon (5), SFR10 (5), Mitchell (4), efialtis (3), irfan_pak10 (3)
	Antihero	Lauda (60), nullius (17), Vod (3), TMAN (3)
	Absolute Hero of Good	satoshi (47), theymos (46), CryptopreneurBrainboss (14), DdmrDdmr (13), Vod (10), The Pharmacist (9), 1miau (7), Lauda (4), Cyrus (4), OgNasty (3), yahoo62278 (3), Hhampuz (3), Daniel91 (3), LoyceV (3), minerjones (3)
	Miss Bitcointalk	Lauda (37), suchmoon (25), Foxpup (11), TMAN (10), lovesmayfamilis (9), LoyceV (3), Yatsan (3), satoshi (3), Bagiira (3)
	Event of the Year	Bitcoin Halving 2020 (39), Lauda’s Departure (19), Project Covid-19 [1] & [2] (15), New BTC ATH (13), Bitcointalk Halving Party (11), Bitcointalk Community Awards (10), Uniswap Airdrop (7), Bruno's Departure (7), Ethereum 2.0 (5)
	Fail of the Year	DeFi (40), Covid pandemic (17), Scam Bitcoin SV (5), DT changes (3), New forum software (3)
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    Uncounted Votes

• Full details are provided in the Spreadsheet

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posi, hulla, soenan, shamimal93, CypherMonk, xzxcoin, abokhalel2, Aron1357, Asupangat, Imran232
monsterman, lifeOK, SHAHKHAN22, Vcob92, Sayeds56, ZAINmalik75, airdrop9x90, Cryptomint9, AlexPr0

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[icopress]

Detailed statistics for each of the 20 questions, (This post will be duplicated under the OP).

• The name of the first account created on November 17, 2009?

The first account made was a demo account named "admin" on November 17, 2009. "Admin" made 7 posts which are not visible (though not deleted).

• When did Satoshi post the first message in this forum?

Satoshi Nakamoto created the bitcointalk forum and posted the first message in November 22, 2009 under the pseudonym "satoshi".

• Who founded the forum?

Sirius founded the forum and still owns the domain name. Cøbra and Theymos are the people who have been running the domain for a long time, although at the moment Cøbra is no longer affiliated with Bitcointalk.org

• Who offered 10,000 bitcoins for pizza?

The first bitcoin transaction took place at the forum, when software programmer Laszlo Hanyecz offered 10,000 bitcoins to purchase pizza, three days later a deal could be arranged to purchase two pizzas.

• On 6 August 2010, a major vulnerability in the bitcoin protocol was spotted, which let users create an indefinite number of bitcoins. How many bitcoins were generated?

On 15 August, the vulnerability was exploited; over 184 billion bitcoins were generated in a transaction, and sent to two addresses on the network. Within hours, the transaction was spotted and erased from the transaction log after the bug was fixed and the network forked to an updated version of the bitcoin protocol. This was the only major security flaw found and exploited in bitcoin's history

• Name the currency whose symbol (฿) was adopted as the official symbol for Bitcoin?

On February 5, 2010, user "NewLibertyStandard" first proposed to accept the Thai Baht currency symbol, ฿, as the official symbol for Bitcoin and BTC.

• What is Theymos profile number (UID)?

Theymos UID, 35  

• Who posted the most posts on Bitcointalk?

Across Bruno's 3 main accounts, Phinnaeus Gage, Gleb Gamow, and YuTü.Co.in, he has amassed a total of 44,776 posts and started 1,628 topics, making him far and away the most prolific poster on the forum.

• User MrFreeRoMan made an ascent to the top of Elbrus where he placed a memorial flag. Whose name was on the flag?

Climbing Elbrus and planting a commemorative flag were dedicated to Zepher.

• Which user was invited to the CIA headquarters to give a presentation on Bitcoin?

Gavin Visiting CIA "I want to get this out in the open because it is the kind of thing that will generate conspiracy theories:  I'm going to give a presentation about Bitcoin at CIA headquarters in June at an emerging technologies conference for the US intelligence community"

• Which ICO/project was officially supported by the forum administration?

HoweyCoins, as this ICO is officially supported by the US government  

• Do you remember April Fool's Day 2018?

On April Fools' Day 2018, Theymos posted "New new rank requirements".

April Fools' Day 2021 idea from DdmrDdmr "Open a Bitcointalk offspring forum using Epochtalk, and state that, due to technical unsurpassable incompatibilities, account migration is not possible and people must rush there to create their account there, before someone takes their profile name. Alas, all accounts will start from scratch as Newbies., but first earlybirds will be granted a special rank (Nitwit Member)."

• When did Theymos promise to publish Satoshi's PMs and IP address?

In 2013, Theymos announced that he intends to publish Satoshi's PMs and IP addresses in ~ 8 years. But in 2018/19, he abandoned this idea, citing the fact that these data would be of great historical interest only decades later.

• How many rules are there in unofficial rules?

In the unofficial list there are 33 rules, not counting additions

• What language was the first local section created in?

July 28, 2010, First local language board was created. In Russian.

• First ALTcoin?

April 18, 2011, [ANN]Namecoin - a distributed naming system based on Bitcoin (First ALT)

• Who directed the first signature campaign?

June 12, 2011, First signature campaign by NghtRppr

• Which forum using Epochtalk is still online?

Correct answer coinbistro.com. You can get the last Epochtalk changes on the Official Bitcointalk Discord Server : https://discord.gg/PEkAkb

• How was Quickseller exposed? (Was caught Escrowing for himself).

Tspacepilot exposed QS using Statistical Methods for Natural Language Processing skills

• Who Received the First Bitcoin Transaction?

Finney downloaded the bitcoin software the day it was released, and received 10 bitcoins from Nakamoto in the world's first bitcoin transaction on 12 January 2009

[Csmiami]

It's great to finally see the results! And the surprise quiz was really something; too bad I sucked at it...

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Your Score: 9 / 20 

PS: I pm'd you on discrd what I believe are a couple or errors in the quiz

[Mbitr]

Great quiz - 10/20 for me 
Yep , question 3 or 4 has the wrong question to the relevant answers - the question occurs later on with the correct relevant answers.
GOOD WORK THOUGH - love these quizzes 

[Rikafip]

Congratulations to all the winners and thanks everyone who voted for me. Didn't expect to finish first as there are many more experienced scambusters around that are trying to make this forum a little bit safer for the others.

Regarding the quiz, I kinda expected that I will suck at this so it was no surprise that I had only 6/20. I haven't even heard about few things in the quiz before, but at least I learned a little bit of bitcointalk history.

[Hobo66]

Congratulations to all the winners.
All categories won by much deserving personalities and events. and congrats to the other nominees too they were all good in their place. specially Event of the year. it is hard to decide which was the biggest event of the year all of them were big events.

[cygan]

it would be very cool if the symbols of the respective winner would be visible in the profile above or below from the avatar

[terizla]

Congratulations to all Winners
You all are the best.

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Your Score 6 / 20

Hahaha need more practice to this forum and cryptocurrency.

[RapTarX]

I got 13 out of 20 although missed couple of one for mistake from your side. You must organize the quiz again.
By the way, I really personally didn't like the question about Quickseller there because it seems like a bit personal although I would agree it's a part of forum history; regardless of that, I guess it would be pretty good if you removed the question about him and replace with something else.

[notblox1]

Congratulations to all the winners and I it would be nice to see how T-shirts look in real life
I don't understand how this Bitcointalk Community Awards are connected with Quiz, and I am now tired to answer all 22 questions so I just skipped that part.

[icopress]

1. The answers of the question below should be different

2. The correct answer to the question below should be "Never"

Also, in the description of this question is stated that "in 2013, Alex announced that he intends to publish [...]". I think "Alex" should be replaced with "theymos"

GazetaBitcoin, Thank you for your comment, if I honestly spent many hours on the design of the thread and looking for questions, and visibly fatigue affected my concentration. Regarding the second point, it seems to me that I am right, I found a quote from Theymos dated 2013, but I can not find a later post on this topic. ^{[I am sure that such a post exists]}

I'll probably release Satoshi's PMs and logged IPs addresses in ~8 years. This'd probably be of great historical interest. (Though he always used Tor, as far as I can tell.)

[Foxpup]

	Miss Bitcointalk	Lauda (37), suchmoon (25), Foxpup (11), TMAN (10), lovesmayfamilis (9), LoyceV (3), Yatsan (3), satoshi (3), Bagiira (3)
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(Oh yes, and obligatory congratulations to all the actual winners. )

EDIT: Fixed image link.

[TryNinja]

Confirmed: I suck as a Ninja.

[fillippone]

I came up as a second, very close to the winner.
Thank you to everyone who took their time to vote for me. Really Appreciated.
Congratulations to @Ratimov for his victory in this nice category.
Next year we won't be "discoveries" anymore, I guess...so better stating working hard for the main competition!.

[Lafu]

Congrats to all the Winners also from me  !

And a thank you for all the Voters who have cast their vote here.
At the end we all are winners for contribute positive to the Forum , the one more and the others less .
We keep the community alive , keep it up all .

@icopress thanks

[CryptoYar]

Congratulations to the winners and of course the icopress will give you good quality T-shirts. 
By the way, these questions were very interesting and informative, as I did not know before Theymos's userid is 35

[webtricksALT]

Confirmed: I suck as a Ninja.

Don't know about others but you are one true Ninja for me.

As per the award description, Bitcointalk Ninja is someone who is creative and contributed exceptionally for the development of Bitcointalk. With no disrespect to LoyceV and Loyce Club, for me your Ninjastic Space and Super Notifier are superior to others.

So, you are the only Ninja literally and descriptively.


No award for thermos, that's criminal!

[Jemzx00]

Congratulations to all the winners and to icopress for organizing all of this.
All winners are deserving of their respective categories and also I think fillippone and theymos deserve a congratulations as they were 1 or 2 votes away from the winners of  the categories Discovery of the Year and Absolute Hero of Good.
Also it was quite a quiz you've done and I only scored 8/20 

[GazetaBitcoin]

GazetaBitcoin, Thank you for your comment [...] visibly fatigue affected my concentration.

Yes, no worry, buddy. It is an overall impressive work you did here, with the contest, with the related topics, with the quiz... It's totally understandable.

Regarding the second point, it seems to me that I am right, I found a quote from Theymos dated 2013, but I can not find a later post on this topic. ^{[I am sure that such a post exists]}

Yes, I knew that comment theymos made in 2013, where he said that in 8 years he'll release Satoshi's IP. And I also remember a second post, where he said he changed his mind (can't find it either).

But the problems at the second question are the following (look at the picture again):
- "When did theymos promise he'll publish Satoshi's PMs and IP address?" / Answers: 2021, 2025, 2040+, Never
- The description of the correct answer: "In 2013, Alex announced that he intends to publish Satoshi's PMs and IP addresses in ~8 years. But in 2018/19 he abandoned this idea, citing that these data would be of great historical interest only decades later".

First of all, that "Alex" name should be changed with "theymos".  His name is not Alex... And I don't know who can be this Alex
The second problem is with the answer itself. If theymos changed his mind and abandoned the idea of publishing Satoshi's PMs and IP, then, basically, the answer should be "Never". However, he stated after that this information would be of a great historic interest later. Later is not the same with never, but bear in mind that he still did not say a specific date (year 2045, 2060 etc.). Nor he said that he will ever post them... Being of historic interest decades later doesn't imply he will publish them (even decades later). Therefore, I think the correct answer should be "Other" (or "Another"), as nobody knows if theymos will disclose this information at all; and, if he will disclose after some "decades", nobody knows after how many decades. It can be after year 2030 or after 2040 or after 2050 and so on... Do you see my point here?

[o_e_l_e_o]

So, to be frankly honest, I paid very little attention to this competition (other than the notifications I kept getting when my name was mentioned) since, like others, I figured it would simply be a popularity contest as opposed to based on actual contributions or merit in the various categories. This seems to be proven by the fact I don't even appear on the SpamBuster category, despite knowing for a fact I have thousands (sometimes >10 thousand) more good reports than some of the people who did, because I'm not very vocal with my reporting statistics.

Because of this, I was unsure how I felt about winning Bitcoin Geek. In my opinion it should have gone to one of the core devs who are active on the forum - gmaxwell or achow101 - or to satoshi himself, no questions asked. I expressed as much in the Discord chat, and webtricks pointed out that it the voting wasn't actually based on the most technical knowledge but rather the person who is most passionate about bitcoin and most helpful in answering questions. In that case, I'll humbly accept, although it still feels wrong to me to be beating people with far more technical knowledge in such a category.


Here's the post you guys are looking for regarding Satoshi's PMs:

I've rethought this, and I won't be releasing the PMs in 2021.
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I do think that there could be historically-relevant info in there, so maybe if Bitcoin has taken over the world in like 50 years and historians are clamoring to know more about its history, I or my successors could be convinced to revisit the issue. Or maybe not; don't get your hopes up. (I still haven't read the PMs, BTW; maybe they're all really boring.)