Why the reduced publicity?

[LTU_btc]

Reduced publicity? I think you're wrong about it. IMO, forum is popular enough and it have big user database.
Why you and many others don't know about Bitcointalk. Because forum isn't that kind of website which would be actively promoted on ad banners, blogs, Youtube and etc. But if you search for information, reviews or something similar it's likely that you will discover Bitcointalk.
And nowadays forums is a bit outdated thing, especially for younger people. They prefer to interact on social media instead of forums. For some people forums have turned into mIRC kind of thing.

[Taskford]

I find this forum to be an interesting place to gather knowledge on bitcoin & other related/general topics. I can see that the forum has been existing for a long time and I wonder why I never heard about it up until recently. There are definitely many others who have never heard about this forum. Is it in the agenda of the forum not to gather too many users hence the reduced publicity?

Actually this forum is not been advertised everywhere that's why you cannot see this place until you research bitcoin since for sure if you search that keyword this forum will also float up on the word given that's why many people goes here and browse some information about bitcoin and other crypto. Also there's no agenda towards anything since actually any publicity can help this forum also with bitcoin.

[Mpamaegbu]

To my best of knowledge, the forum hasn't advertised itself before and that means all users that are here came because they wanted to and not because they got tricked to.

Yes, you're right because I got to this forum in my quest for knowledge. Curiosity made me stumble unto this place. In my case, I would say it was luck that brought me here as no one introduced it to me. I clicked links and surprisingly found this forum which of course I didn't have an iota of idea it existed. Another thing, good products don't advertise themselves. Maybe that notion is what this forum relies on and for that doesn't see the need for advertising it. However, I believe there should be skeletal and subtle advertisement for this forum from time to time. The more the merrier kind of it, you know. This forum still needs more people. I think there's something like that going on in YouTube for this forum.

[Lucius]

I can see that the forum has been existing for a long time and I wonder why I never heard about it up until recently.

My opinion is that you are not interested in Bitcoin for too long, because anyone who is genuinely interested in something like Bitcoin can very easily find this forum through search engines or through various links in which Satoshi Nakamoto as the inventor of Bitcoin is linked to this forum. The fact that may provide at least part of the answer to your question is that people equate Bitcoin with quick earnings, and for that, they need a crypto exchange, not a forum.

In my philosophy, if you want to find the source of a river then you need to go upstream and not downstream as some do today. Therefore, for anyone who wants to find a unique source of information and Bitcoin history is not at all problematic to find this forum - I found it after a week of serious interest in Bitcoin.

[lovesmayfamilis]

In my opinion, people come to the forum who can use the Internet search well. More precisely, these people are not new to the network. Today, the Internet is divided into many interests. But most use it as entertainment. Therefore, those who are interested in any topic will check all the links that the search engine provides to them. If someone does not stumble upon a forum from the first three or four links, this does not mean that the forum is difficult to find. Cryptocurrency enthusiasts are bound to stumble upon this forum, as we are always interested in getting more information and do not stop at resources.
But others are interested in material gain. Such people get on the forum on advice.
BUT again, to those who are looking for, the forum always goes forward. Otherwise, how would everyone else get here?

[Coyster]

I find this forum to be an interesting place to gather knowledge on bitcoin & other related/general topics. I can see that the forum has been existing for a long time and I wonder why I never heard about it up until recently. There are definitely many others who have never heard about this forum. Is it in the agenda of the forum not to gather too many users hence the reduced publicity?

I'm pretty sure many users here were introduced to the forum by someone else (could that be the major means for influx of users?) while having a discussion with such persons about Bitcoin, so one can possibly say Bitcoin discussions or the desire to know more/garner knowledge about Bitcoin would one way or another lead one to the forum.

Having said that, you're correct when you refer to the forum as being interesting, of course it is cause it 'houses' loads of Bitcoin information as it's a great 'repertoire' of crypto knowledge, the forum has no problem with how many users join, but what you must know is that everyone can't come in at the same time.

[isaac_clarke22]

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I guess the same could be said when I was still finding ways on how to get first Bitcoin back in 2017. I started reading around this forum, just as a Guest user in the middle of that year while also being recommended by someone to ask here as there weren't that much tutorials on how to buy Bitcoin here in my country as it wasn't that mainstream here just yet. I really didn't expect that there would be local boards in here in the first place.

[Marvelman]

I knew about BTC in 2011, at that time a close relative decide to give me 1 BTC for free but I never believed in the technology so I turned him down, I knew about bitcointalk in 2017 can you see the difference? Its possible not to know about this forum even when you know what BTC is until you go deep in doing research

No. There is no need to do extensive research to find this forum. Here is a little experiment we can do. If you click on one of these links, can you let us know what you get as your first search result?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bitcoin+forum
https://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin+forum
https://www.bing.com/search?q=bitcoin+forum
https://yandex.com/search/?text=bitcoin+forum

[Bitcoinbride]

Why you and many others don't know about Bitcointalk. Because forum isn't that kind of website which would be actively promoted on ad banners, blogs, Youtube and etc. But if you search for information, reviews or something similar it's likely that you will discover Bitcointalk.
And nowadays forums is a bit outdated thing, especially for younger people. They prefer to interact on social media instead of forums. For some people forums have turned into mIRC kind of thing.

So in summary of this, you are saying that with more social media sites, younger people are no longer interested in learning through forums? How about those Interested in learning but don't know where to go and have no one to point them in the right direction? I don't mean to over flog the issue.

[LTU_btc]

So in summary of this, you are saying that with more social media sites, younger people are no longer interested in learning through forums? How about those Interested in learning but don't know where to go and have no one to point them in the right direction? I don't mean to over flog the issue.

In general yes. There is one common thing among most of forums, not just Bitcointalk - they struggle to attract new members, mainly old members keep forums active. Offcourse, you can"t feel it so much on huge forums like Bitcointalk and also this forum is exception from rule because of sig. campaigns and bounties. But on smallers forums it feels.
For younger people forums is thing from past. I think that they would prefer to learn using other platforms, for example, watching Youtube videos or even TikTok.
These who are looking for information, eventually they will find Bitcointalk. Then it's only question whether they will come here and stay or they will move on to other platform.

[Taskford]

Why you and many others don't know about Bitcointalk. Because forum isn't that kind of website which would be actively promoted on ad banners, blogs, Youtube and etc. But if you search for information, reviews or something similar it's likely that you will discover Bitcointalk.
And nowadays forums is a bit outdated thing, especially for younger people. They prefer to interact on social media instead of forums. For some people forums have turned into mIRC kind of thing.

So in summary of this, you are saying that with more social media sites, younger people are no longer interested in learning through forums? How about those Interested in learning but don't know where to go and have no one to point them in the right direction? I don't mean to over flog the issue.

We can actually feel the number of active users are declining but it doesn't affect much the popularity of this forum since still this is the most famous one among than all. But if we talk about source of learnings we can say that know informations are placed everywhere and mostly young guys around are mostly in social medias right now since they have direct access on that channels.

Also for sure that guys who don't know about where to start will search those information on google and rest is history after that since he provably got those links where he want to learn some informations about bitcoin.

[Bttzed03]

~ A large percent of the people who know bitcointalk are the OGs, newbies visit more of clubhouse, crypto Twitter.

Many of the OGs probably left the forum a long time ago and I know some of them have huge followings on twitter now. When I was still active in that platform, I only saw 1 post from one of them mentioning bitcointalk and it wasn't even positive. The message was phrased like I made all these profits without visiting bitcointalk.

[lovesmayfamilis]

No. There is no need to do extensive research to find this forum. Here is a little experiment we can do. If you click on one of these links, can you let us know what you get as your first search result?

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bitcoin+forum
https://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin+forum
https://www.bing.com/search?q=bitcoin+forum
https://yandex.com/search/?text=bitcoin+forum

Exactly. You just confirmed my words. Everyone who knows how to use the search correctly, the forum, is issued in the first positions. But the problem is that today, social networks have flooded all the interests of young people. Communication in two or three phrases will not give a normal understanding of cryptocurrencies. And until someone who asks questions like "what is bitcoin" or "how to earn bitcoin" does not change search queries, he will stumble upon Twitter, or group telegrams, in which there is a lot of noise, but there is no specific information. The problem is not the forum, the problem is the people.

[Agbe]

You may be onto something here. No everybody that knows bitcoin knows bitcointalk forum. A large percent of the people who know bitcointalk are the OGs, newbies visit more of clubhouse, crypto Twitter. That’s one reason I think OGs suspects “newbies” to be old users coming back again to create alts. If you read bitcoin history bitcointalk.org is always referenced. Bitcointalk is rich with bitcoin history. Unfortunately people don’t care much about history these days.

Although I was not conversant with bitcoin, but I don't believe that everyone who knows Bitcoin knows Bitcointalk. I new small about bitcoin after my first experience yet I do not know Bitcointalk, it was a face book friend of my friend posted it on his wall that I saw the link and click on the link and registered, even the registration was a thug of war.I asked questions and tried my best to successfully registered. Though, I will not dispute the fact that a large number of people know about Bitcointalk but I am still supporting the statement of the OP that there are lot of people out there that do not know this forum. Personally, in neighborhood, if I asked most of the people that living the same street, close, road and compound with me, they would say, they don't know. The awareness campaign and the publicity isow.

[Oceat]

My thoughts would be maybe they already knew this forum yet they find it hard to use that's why they switched to different platforms such as reddit and others. It may be good for them to find the other forum appealing though they just have to explore this forum first in order to get used to where is the right board if they want to read something.

Each board has different topic and this forum is specifically for crypto or Bitcoin users only. And not to mention the crypto gambling part and altcoins section which I found very full of topic.

[worle1bm]

If you are searching for bitcoin related forums then it would on number one always or on the first page depending on your search preference and the area.There are many who just got familiar with this beautiful forum in recent months or days but whenever you discover it the best for you.This is community oriented discussion forum which don't need publicity in my opinion and one interested in it can find it.

[GeorgeJohn]

Really the community of bitcointalk, is specifically meant for discussion of bitcoin and it's relatives that are the supportive, and will say basically that some people who find their self here not eighteen percent of them knows about bitcoin but due they merge here and they began to know about bitcoin and technically and technological impact, so no time you locate the community is late, what you should be interested of, is to know the rudiments of Bitcoin and comprehend it in the brain

[KingsDen]

And until someone who asks questions like "what is bitcoin" or "how to earn bitcoin" does not change search queries, he will stumble upon Twitter, or group telegrams, in which there is a lot of noise, but there is no specific information. The problem is not the forum, the problem is the people.

I understand that the search queries determine the search results. When I made some searches about Bitcoin back then, I didn't find this forum. This is because, hardly will one search with these keywords "Bitcoin forum". Nobody wants to join a forum, what they want is to learn about bitcoin and bitcoin investment and ask questions about bitcoin.

Then if the technical board would be optimized in google search, there will be more influx in the technical board because of random questions people ask.

[Bhig Daddy]

You could have a point here. Nobody who understands bitcoin is unaware of the Bitcointalk forum. The majority of those familiar with bitcointalk are the OGs, whereas newcomers frequent crypto Twitter and clubhouse more frequently. This is one of the reasons I believe OGs suspect "newbies" are actually former users returning to create alts. When researching the history of bitcoin, bitcointalk.org is frequently mentioned. The history of bitcoin is extensive on Bitcointalk. Unfortunately, not many people today are interested in history.