Request for Nigeria local board

[Smartvirus]

There are many reasons we Nigerians need local board
1. Like the Brainboss exchange service, some new Nigerians may not know there is anything like that, but moving it to our local board will make it more easy to be seen and known. Not only Brainboss service, there will be some Nigerians that will like to provide service for people in Naira (the Nigeria fiat).

In resent times, the Nigerian government has taken to the forefront of the world against bitcoin and cryptocurrency activities. This in turn is sure to pose some negativism in the minds of bitcoin and crypto investors, a field that was gradually gaining investors in the country as citizens source for other means of investment to escape the impact of bad governance and other menace of an unjust political system.

As we all know, the threat can't and won't totally eradicate from the land the need for bitcoin enthusaist to invest in bitcoin and other altcoins but then, the issue comes in terms of transferring your return on investment (ROI) into it's fiat equivalent when the need arises. With the Nigerian government looking into all means of inhibiting this vital aspect of investment and enjoyment of ROI from being readily available only spreads the negativism on cryptos and its of great concern now than ever. The trust system already confers on some users some degree of credibility but then, a system needs to be put in place and with Nigerians, yet a third world country but fast gaining population in the forum and actively participating in forum discussions and contributions and the fact that, unique languages and not just the symbolic nature of the inscription of a spoken tongue (of which Nigeria do also have in the Nigerian Pigin which is unique to Nigerians and understood all round the nation) is given some sort of freedom in a local board to coordinate affairs with bitcoin, the forum and our nation at large, it becomes very disturbing for we Nigerians to actively sort out issues within ourselves in  these regards Bitcoin, forum and Nigerian crypto community/nation affair in ways that gives us some degree of comfort.

Its also of note that the Nigerian Bitcointalk Community Hangout. in the other languages section has a lot of participation and its rally on the charts as per participation and stays top on the other languages section but, its not easily noticeable by other Nigerians within the forum as not so many scavenge the forum like others, coupled with the anonymity which is a necessity in the crypto space but then, being with your country men and woman in a space filled with anonymous persons creates in the user a some sense of belonging and increase participation as a bond is been developed between the forum and the Nigerian community.

Also, facing the problem of our time as to exchanging bitcoin and known altcoins into its fiat equivalent for which the Brainboss exchange services by a trusted legendary member @Cryptoprenuerbrainboss would gain popularity and as well solve the problem on withdrawal while respecting people's privacy. It would also confer on the user @Cryptoprenuerbrainboss the freewill to transact with other members of the forum without fear of a possible alt at play and other complications that could arise as to this effect. The p2p system of withdrawal is our only option right now and the dangers associated with the p2p system isn't quantifiable so it becomes a problem as trust is all there is.

This is in regards for the plea on a local board and there is no legitimacy to the later but, it would be nice should this plea be looked into. Thanks.

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[Charles-Tim]

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You are right, local board is a board to bring together people of your mother languages, and yet not only that, local board also bring about connecting together people from your country, that is why I did not see it as a surprise that Indian local board on this forum is in English. There are matters partaining to the country that they will have to discussed and enlighting many of their members. But, yet not only that, people from their same country that are not even on this forum can just use search engine and bring up many contents from the local board and useful to them as it is what they search for.

[Theoboy]

If we take a trip down memory lane, there was a time Nigeria board was requested for on this forum, but due to one reasons or the other, we were not given local board. It would be as a result of some reasons, best known to theymos, but of which the reasons will be genuine.

CryptopreneurBrainboss created a local thread, Africa Bitcointalk Community Hangout., where some of us do have some discussions related to bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies and our country. Later, we noticed all of us there are Nigerians, we finally have to discuss about it, and CryptopreneurBrainboss changed it to Nigerian Bitcointalk Community Hangout.. Two languages are accepted on the thread, English and Pidgin.

The thread surfaced to be for Nigerians and we are happy for that as the evolution of Nigeria local board on bitcointalk is dawning to become reality. That is why we are making a request for theymos to grant our request and give us Nigerians a local board.

There are many reasons we Nigerians need local board
1. Like the Brainboss exchange service, some new Nigerians may not know there is anything like that, but moving it to our local board will make it more easy to be seen and known. Not only Brainboss service, there will be some Nigerians that will like to provide service for people in Naira (the Nigeria fiat).

2. There was a day I wanted to convert litecoin to Naira, I have to call a member on this forum that did it for me, requesting such directly from our local baord would have been the best which will make such transactions transparent in case by making such offer on our local baord.

3. Our government just banned cryptocurrencies, but we know it is going to be legalized back, our local board is a place to easily find latest information that will be posted by our members about how to exchange Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies  to Naira during this hard time. The way we can still make trades in Bitcoin, in other cryptocurrencies and in naira will be easily discussed on our local board.

Nigerians have many active users on this forum, only what we need is for us to be given a local board, we active users are ready to develop the board. Please, we need support from other members about this to help us leave positive comments which are true about us Nigerians to convince theymos into giving us a local board.

Board requested for
1. Bitcoin discussion
2. Altcoin discussion
3. Off topics

January, 2021 overview of the local boards activity by Rikafip

I completely agree with the appeal for Nigerians to be given a local board not just because am one.
But as we here all know Nigeria is the giant of Africa and we are fast adopting the world's most popular cryptocurrency (Bitcoin). And with this we are setting a path for other African countries.
And having a local board will really help the New comers from Nigeria too, speaking in the language the really understand

[Igebotz]

It's been 4 months 8days since this thread was created, we are yet to get a response from sir @theymos. Nigeria is a large community in the crypto space, the biggest in Africa and among top 5 in the world in terms of crypto population. I think we deserve an official local corner to continue learning and promoting crypto via pidgin English and pure English as well.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Greetings theymos, I think it'll be highly appreciated if you respond to our request. We don't mind the response been positive or negative but atleast give us something to build on. Neither the numerous thread or personal message are been responded to and it's getting frustrating. What the Nigerian community will accomplish if this board we seek for is given will be very surprising to all including yourself.

We have our brothers and sisters lost in the forum especially in the bounty boards and having a board like this can help guide them into the right path. We don't ask for much, just a local board that'll have distinguish the different discussion we're having just on one thread and it's getting congested even making members lose interest since it's kind of hard to keep track of discussion ongoing as you'll never know which topic is been responded to.

Even without a local board we were one of the most active at some point with just a thread but all that is dying because there's no back bone (local board). The board would be a benefit to all as our brothers and sisters from the other countries on our continent African can come hangout with us and participants in discussion there too. We'll definitely create space to welcome them all just like the big brother we are. There's huge potential in the county and continent at large, you'll be doing more good than harm if this wish is granted. Please look into our appeal, just hoping you see this.

[Mpamaegbu]

CryptopreneurBrainboss, are you the only one in Israel (literary speaking though) who doesn't know yet that silence is theymos' greatest weapon?

I think he does that on purpose and not that he hasn't read or seen the posts. Just give him time. He responds, sadly though, late to certain issues. But I hope he sees the same thing CZ Binance saw in Nigeria as a major force to reckon with in the crypto space as he allowed the Nigerian currency to be paired on his exchange. It will be in the overall best interest of this forum if the Nigerian community is granted a local board as that will further create more awareness and source of generating more adverts for this forum. Investors like numbers, and Nigeria has got that numbers in population.

[posi]

I'm confident that Nigeria does got the numbers and the force when we talk about Cryptocurency despite the on going restrictions, the number of P2P exchange users from there are huge which is an obvious issue talk about in different crypto related article and news site.

[Charles-Tim]

Even without a local board we were one of the most active at some point with just a thread

This link shows an old data (February), we are even now more active than before, the last posted on the thread was on July 06, 2021, and many previous ones have shown how more Nigerians are active.

I have noticed some good Nigerian posters are not posting on our local thread, some are complaining that discussing on a single thread is the reason they are not yet posting, that it will be better if they we have a local board. Many has also resorted to asking me questions on telegram, I keep on explaining what I have explained before as another person will still ask me the same question again, if we have a local board, I would have directed them more to the board for the question so others can gain from it.

We should just maintain good reputation, I know theymos will one day give us a local board for the benefit of Nigerians on this forum, there are a lot to discuss about cryptocurrencies in Nigerian board and we will have the board, we should just be patient.

[Pokapoka124]

I am proudly Nigerian and I strongly believe it is well within our right to request for a local board. We have a good and active user base in the community. As my fellow country have stated reasons why we need a local board, our argument is just and can't be denied. A local board would be a home inside a home (bitcointalk forum). Let's say we want to organise a Bitcoin hangout in maybe Lagos. How do we efficiently convey the information to the interested parties? A local board!

[Rikafip]

I have noticed some good Nigerian posters are not posting on our local thread, some are complaining that discussing on a single thread is the reason they are not yet posting, that it will be better if they we have a local board. Many has also resorted to asking me questions on telegram, I keep on explaining what I have explained before as another person will still ask me the same question again, if we have a local board, I would have directed them more to the board for the question so others can gain from it.

I am sure that posting in one thread is far from ideal and is putting away many many members who would would be active if you have your own local board, but imho it is crucial to be active there nevertheless. The more active you are month after the month, better are your chances of getting your own local board.

Creating a new local board is a big deal and those in charge haven't add one in years meaning better be ready for a long wait, and in the meantime keep both quantity and quality of posts as that's really the only thing that is up to you.

[Pmalek]

Creating a new local board is a big deal and those in charge haven't add one in years meaning better be ready for a long wait...

Judging by tranthidung's thread, History of local boards, the last local subs were added back in 2017.

Namely:

• The Japanese
• The Arabic
• The Uzbekistan, Armenian, and Sri Lankan language threads

   
Since nothing has been done on this front for several years, the chances for significant changes don't look good. But there are always exceptions, so don't give up on your request.   

[Rikafip]

Judging by tranthidung's thread, History of local boards, the last local subs were added back in 2017.

Namely:

• The Japanese
• The Arabic
• The Uzbekistan, Armenian, and Sri Lankan language threads

 

Looking at the current situation in those added boards/threads, all are basically dead except Arabic, so it's not a surprise that forum became very reluctant to add new local boards as they are probably concerned that the same thing will happen to new ones as well

As you pointed out, that doesn't mean that Nigerians ( and members of other communities) shouldn't try getting own local board. I strongly believe that if Nigerian board can increase current number of posts (~140) and keep it like that for some longer period of time, they will eventually get what they are after. Crypto is incredibly popular in Nigeria and bitcointalk could play a significant role in educating people form Nigeria about bitcoin.

[Igebotz]

Creating a new local board is a big deal and those in charge haven't add one in years meaning better be ready for a long wait, and in the meantime keep both quantity and quality of posts as that's really the only thing that is up to you.

Looking through the other languages thread on the other languages board I think the reason for not creating a local board for a long time is valid considering the high level of spam on those threads. The Nigeria thread has been around for a short time, it was created 2 years ago and since it creation it remains;

• The most active
• Most posts
• Most active members
• Most Pages
• Zero spam
• Zero low post

This could be the long awaited reason for the mod( in charge of board) creation to create one more board after a long period of time. That been said what are the criteria of having a thread pinned? Looking at the already pinned ones I think we are more than qualify to have our thread pin while we wait for our local board.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Just wanna use this opportunity to chip in my thought here.
Am a Nigerian too and I've been very active in this forum, I support the movement that theymos should give us Nigerians, our own board, there are so many reasons why we deserve this but am just going to mention two.

1. There are alot of Nigerian in crypto currencies today and alot of them are also on this forum, most of the Nigerians on this forum still have the newbie rank and as such, they don't even know who their fellow nigerians are, having our own board will help us discover ourselves and help each other on how to navigate around the forum and also grow.

2. Even binance, (world largest exchange) made it possible for  Nigerians to deposit our local currency(naira) directly to the exchange due to the enormous amount of users they have from Nigeria, this is a clear indicator that truly, there are alot of Nigerian supporting and investing in crypto, and like I said before, this numbers are also registered on this forum, but because we don't have our own local board, we don't know ourselves.

Please Mr. Theymos, do this for us, give us our own local board, we as Nigerians will forever be grateful to you sir.

[Rikafip]

Creating a new local board is a big deal and those in charge haven't add one in years meaning better be ready for a long wait, and in the meantime keep both quantity and quality of posts as that's really the only thing that is up to you.

Looking through the other languages thread on the other languages board I think the reason for not creating a local board for a long time is valid considering the high level of spam on those threads. The Nigeria thread has been around for a short time, it was created 2 years ago and since it creation it remains;

• The most active
• Most posts
• Most active members
• Most Pages
• Zero spam
• Zero low post

I don't know about other facts, but those two bolded ones are not entirely true, as there are couple of other threads that have more posts written. Not going into quality of those posts, just referring to the numbers.

That been said what are the criteria of having a thread pinned? Looking at the already pinned ones I think we are more than qualify to have our thread pin while we wait for our local board.

My guess is that thread has to be active enough to be pinned and I'm l sure that Nigerian thread meets that criteria easily. Imho, someone from your community should contact @Cyrus and ask for thread to be pinned.

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

My guess is that thread has to be active enough to be pinned and I'm l sure that Nigerian thread meets that criteria easily. Imho, someone from your community should contact @Cyrus and ask for thread to be pinned.

I'm pretty sure we are quite active than most of the pinned local thread. What's the benefits or advantages of it been pinned so I can write him in hopes of achieving that. If the pinning only makes the thread visible then I don't think that's a problem that we're facing as we're quite active keeping the thread on the top of other threads excluding the pinned ones.

From the very day it was created, we have always been among the top thread and majorly held the top 1 spot for a number of months. Just viewed the board and (excluding the pinned ones) we're still holding that number one spot for most active as others (the closest) had their last discussion on 8th July but ours was yesterday 16th July and soon to begin discussion from where we stopped.

I also noticed most of the pinned thread aren't even active some having their last discussion dated backwards. If there's a significant of having a pinned thread like your local thread has to be pinned before getting a local board and there's or are posts to backed that then, we'll be grateful if link that to us so we can work towards it.

[zanezane]

I am proudly Nigerian and I strongly believe it is well within our right to request for a local board. We have a good and active user base in the community. As my fellow country have stated reasons why we need a local board, our argument is just and can't be denied. A local board would be a home inside a home (bitcointalk forum). Let's say we want to organise a Bitcoin hangout in maybe Lagos. How do we efficiently convey the information to the interested parties? A local board!

I agree with you, I mean this board should have boards for every country but there's a problem and I only assume this but I feel like there's not a lot of Nigerian users in the forum although I could be wrong and you are all just speaking the English language that good. Maybe it can benefit that they add a board, it's been a while since they've added a board and I think that the African countries, deserves to have one.

[Rikafip]

My guess is that thread has to be active enough to be pinned and I'm l sure that Nigerian thread meets that criteria easily. Imho, someone from your community should contact @Cyrus and ask for thread to be pinned.

If the pinning only makes the thread visible then I don't think that's a problem that we're facing as we're quite active keeping the thread on the top of other threads excluding the pinned ones.

I think that's about it, being pinned will make your thread a bit more visible. It probably won't have a major effect on your thread activity, but why not having it pinned, as I don't see any downsides of getting that, while waiting for your own local board.

By the way, did any of you contact forum staff directly and asked them what's exactly needed to get your own local board, like if there is some specific criteria to be met?

[Upgrade00]

By the way, did any of you contact forum staff directly and asked them what's exactly needed to get your own local board, like if there is some specific criteria to be met?

I don't know if anyone has contacted a forum staff directly to know if there's any criteria, I know I haven't, but a global mod has weighed on on the discussion with his own reason, which is about the lack of a common language, different from the general English, and it has been extensively discussed how boards are not only for specific languages, but users who have a lot in common and there is also a pidgin language which is the main language used in the Nigerian thread.

Besides this the only other criteria I think, is being popular enough, another box the Nigerian board also ticks.

[Rikafip]

I don't know if anyone has contacted a forum staff directly to know if there's any criteria, I know I haven't, but a global mod has weighed on on the discussion with his own reason, which is about the lack of a common language, different from the general English, and it has been extensively discussed how boards are not only for specific languages, but users who have a lot in common and there is also a pidgin language which is the main language used in the Nigerian thread.

Well, the answer he gave was about something completely different, which was a request for African board, and that request indeed didn't make much sense, given so many different languages.

But even if you decide to use English (Wikipedia says its one of Nigeria's official languages), imho it shouldn't be a reason against Nigerian local board, as for example India has own local board, where everyone is using English due too many languages used, and English is spoken by most of the people.