Whats the point of this website?

[shahzadafzal]

When it comes to altcoin projects, Bitcointalk is a great place to advertise those especially if the company has plans to run ICO and similar advertising campaigns.

I beg to disagree, bitcointalk is the last place where you want to advertise your altcoin project. I mean, back in the day when altcoins didn't have many option, advertising here was a must I guess. Hell, back in the day even Vitalik created ANN here to promote Ethereum, which I can't imagine  any of the new popular altcoins like Polkadot or Link would do now. I don't go much into altcoin section anymore, but from what I could see, huge majority of altcoin projects that come here to advertise are worst possible shitcoins not even capable of entering top 200-300.

Then again, it's no surprise that altcoins are avoiding bitcointalk. First, because vast majority of them are indeed worthless shitcoins and will be called out/tagged if there is anything wrong with them, and usually there is something to be found. 2nd, this is bitcoin forum after all so people here consider all altcoins as shitcoins (except maybe Monero and a few others) so why come here in the first place?

You are absolutely right here bitcointalk will be last option for shitcoins to come here and announce their shitty projects. Reason is very simple.. it's a forum not a twitter or facebook where you can pay to get likes and retweets... I believe we still have healthy and very capable members which can expose such scammers within minutes. This is the major reason they won't touch bitcointalk, otherwise this is still best place for genuine, real and meaningful projects.

I remember coinmarketcap use to have a dedicated link for bitcointalk.org which is now under community and mixed with reddit and twitter etc links.

[Pmalek]

@Rikafip, @shahzadafzal
I understand what you guys are saying, but I wasn't talking about bottom of the barrel altcoins (shitcoins), Jesus Coins, and those CumSwap platforms.

But Matic Network advertised on Bitcointalk for example. Solana has a short ANN thread created back in February. Not sure if the OP is a team member or just a supporter of the project. I think Tron advertised on the forum as well, but I could be wrong about that.

Cosmos (ATOM) has its ANN thread on Bitcointalk. Havven, now rebranded to Synthetix announced its ICO and held a bounty campaign here. I remember NEXO as well. There was a decentralized VPN provider, but I forgot their name. Etc., etc.

Whether or not these are considered shitcoins or not, is a different topic of discussion. But Rikafip is also right when he says that Bitcointalk doesn't have such an importance anymore as it did in the past. I don't follow the altcoin scene as I did many years ago, but I also remember seeing Avalanche and we can't forget about Grin either.   

[Rikafip]

But Matic Network advertised on Bitcointalk for example. Solana has a short ANN thread created back in February. Not sure if the OP is a team member or just a supporter of the project. I think Tron advertised on the forum as well, but I could be wrong about that.

Matic made ANN thread, then one more post month after and never really came back, and it's been almost 2 years now. Cosmos, Tron and other few projects you mentioned are also not really new and are at least few years old. About decentralized VPN provider, you maybe mean Mysterium? At least that's the decentralized VPN provider that I heard of. So yeah, those are not exactly new projects at all, which I had in mind when I said that bitcointalk is not really place anymore to advertise altcoins. This can also be seen through decrease in post count, which was at its peak during last altcoin season.

But generally, I don't think that top altcoin projects even consider advertising here, as even if they do bounty campaign, I doubt that they will have much effect; if they decide to start signature campaign and pay in their tokens they will  get bunch of shitposters, and if they create ANN thread it will be drowned in the pile of shitcoin threads.


 
To answer the OP, this forum will always have historic significance as it was created by Satoshi himself and despite all these new means of communication, will always be relevant when it comes to discussions about anything bitcoin related. After all, that's why this forum is created for.

[GeorgeJohn]

This website seems to be similar to reddit except with an older UI. It's obviously more focused on the topic of bitcoin but I can easily find a group on reddit to talk about bitcoin.

The forum is different from Reddit. The forum already has it name as bitcointalk. So it here we talk and promote Bitcoin. As a newbie it is important that you post this kind of trends in beginners and have. It is there before will be very patient to answer your question. But to see this kind of topic in meta will make some people not to be patient with you, even if you ask the question to learn. Finally, this forum is all about Bitcoin and other topics. There are many things to learn and to donate here about bitcoin, altcoins and other topics. Here you will also know the ideology of Bitcoin in other countries because many countries are here, contributing and promoting bitcoin business.

[dark1234]

This website seems to be similar to reddit except with an older UI. It's obviously more focused on the topic of bitcoin but I can easily find a group on reddit to talk about bitcoin.

The forum is different from Reddit. The forum already has it name as bitcointalk. So it here we talk and promote Bitcoin. As a newbie it is important that you post this kind of trends in beginners and have. It is there before will be very patient to answer your question. But to see this kind of topic in meta will make some people not to be patient with you, even if you ask the question to learn. Finally, this forum is all about Bitcoin and other topics. There are many things to learn and to donate here about bitcoin, altcoins and other topics. Here you will also know the ideology of Bitcoin in other countries because many countries are here, contributing and promoting bitcoin business.

this website is very different from the others and this is clear if we can examine it, no excuse if on Reddit or other web/social media we can also get a discussion about bitcoin; then we likened the website to another website... come on friends.... try to think and be more mature so that we can know and understand better

[btc-room101]

This website seems to be similar to reddit except with an older UI. It's obviously more focused on the topic of bitcoin but I can easily find a group on reddit to talk about bitcoin.

The forum is different from Reddit. The forum already has it name as bitcointalk. So it here we talk and promote Bitcoin. As a newbie it is important that you post this kind of trends in beginners and have. It is there before will be very patient to answer your question. But to see this kind of topic in meta will make some people not to be patient with you, even if you ask the question to learn. Finally, this forum is all about Bitcoin and other topics. There are many things to learn and to donate here about bitcoin, altcoins and other topics. Here you will also know the ideology of Bitcoin in other countries because many countries are here, contributing and promoting bitcoin business.

this website is very different from the others and this is clear if we can examine it, no excuse if on Reddit or other web/social media we can also get a discussion about bitcoin; then we likened the website to another website... come on friends.... try to think and be more mature so that we can know and understand better

Given the amount of censorship on this site, and given that the gods are bitcoin cultists, if not just plain nutz and defensive, I would say that essentially this site is  a circle-jerk, and they don't tolerate ppl who don't provide positive feedback of the mother shit-coin btc.