Is there another similar concept?

[Darker45]

I can also only imagine what makes this Bitcointalk forum more successful than Bitcoingarden forum from your perspective or from anyones' who can contribute.

In that regard, I would however appreciate it, if you or anyone can share with us some of the success this forum has made that sets it apart from the any other, that's if they do exist. Also, how could one possibly measure the success of a forum or community idea as this, that is, what kind of standard of measurement will be used?

What makes this forum particularly successful is that this was some kind of a de facto official forum of Bitcoin. Satoshi was here; Hal was here; Nick Szabo was here; Adam Back was here. Everybody else was here. That extends to Vitalik, Ross Ulbricht, Gavin, Roger Ver, Charlie Lee, Laszlo, Mike Caldwell, and other historical personalities in crypto's rich history. Is there even a single Bitcoin developer who is in altcointalk or Bitcoingarden or cryptotalk? The resources of this forum are vast.

[Cryptomultiplier]

In that regard, I would however appreciate it, if you or anyone can share with us some of the success this forum has made that sets it apart from the any other, that's if they do exist.

To me, that's obvious. Bitcointalk.org is the first forum created specifically to promote the Bitcoin project and is a direct successor to the original forum created by the creator himself, Satoshi. It holds tremendous historical value and remains the go-to source for all information related to Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

There are days' worth of reading material on the forum, and there's nothing on the entire Internet that can quite compare to the wealth of information you can find here. Just take a look at the list of notable topics compiled by Ratimov here: [AUGUST UPD.] Beginners & Help Encyclopedia. You can also check out the top captions for notable historical posts compiled by theymos:  Caption results

Also, how could one possibly measure the success of a forum or community idea as this, that is, what kind of standard of measurement will be used?

I'm not sure if there are specific measurement standards, but we can compare relevant data such as:

- Daily or monthly visitor counts
- Active user counts
- Total registered user counts
- The rate of new topics and posts created each day

These metrics should provide a good basis for comparing the activity and engagement on different forums.

You are on point with the metrics you provided. Although I can't ascertain how incoherent the results might be if this metrics is used as a standard to measure the success or failure of any similar forum as this, but this metrics will sure do and is notably still the best one yet.

[examplens]

You are on point with the metrics you provided. Although I can't ascertain how incoherent the results might be if this metrics is used as a standard to measure the success or failure of any similar forum as this, but this metrics will sure do and is notably still the best one yet.

Keep in mind that external factors also affect the increase or decrease of activity on the forum. For example, always during the bull run and when Bitcoin reaches its historical highest point, interest in it rises sharply like all other cryptocurrencies. I believe that some parallel graphs would show it well.
The same thing happens in the opposite direction, when it's bearish and when everything goes down, interest also decreases and activity on the forum decreases.

[Yamane_Keto]

Yes, that's what am talking about. I may have not properly articulated my question, still am glad you did help me with a better response.
I can also only imagine what makes this Bitcointalk forum more successful than Bitcoingarden forum from your perspective or from anyones' who can contribute.

Continuity. before the signature campaigns, there was an interest in the forum, as the forum continued as a place for discussion from 2009 to 2013, which is the date of registration of the first signature campaign.

We can attribute the cause of higher activity or density to post in a specific board due to signature campaigns, which are easy to notice their effect. Even trusted members change their posting pattern according to those campaigns. Most members of Chipmixer no longer publish 50 posts per week even though they were doing this for years.

The density of posting and active new members is controlled by signature campaigns and the price of bitcoin. As for the existence and continuity of the forum, it is a reality, as there are boards that are not within the signature campaigns and have activity such as serious discussions, political and the wall.

[robelneo]

I had to ask this, although I know someone here may have reasoned in line with this, having read something similar as a post thread or comments in any section here.

° Can an online business besides just a gambling platform, which accepts Bitcoin as payments or for payouts, run a signature campaign on this Bitcoin talk forum, or is the term 'signature campaign' strictly attributed to gambling platforms?

I remember doing campaigns on platforms that are not gambling and mixing, in the past, there were projects like exchange, tokens, and play to earn that launched signature campaigns and they paid Bitcoin and some of them paid half of the payment in their native token any platforms can run a campaign it just happens that gambling and mixing platforms rule the signature campaign, right now we have exchanges and community-based token running signature campaigns hopefully in the future we'll see more signature campaigns in different industry

° Is there another kind of forum for online businesses that accepts Bitcoin as payment, which is similar in concept like this forum? If no, is there any other discovery you have had that's close in initiative to an active community as this, which aims to help advertise, market, educate, inform and encourage adopting payments in BTC and crypto currency in general?

Your thoughts and opinions are welcomed!

I was a member of forums that pays to post the admins are the one paying there are no managers this is when Bitcoin is not yet that popular but right now Bitcointalk rule the Cryptocurrency forums there are other forums but projects seldom run a signature campaign there.
Bitcointalk is the most visited forum in the Cryptocurrency niche because Satoshi is one of the founders of this forum.

[YOSHIE]

° Can an online business besides just a gambling platform, which accepts Bitcoin as payments or for payouts, run a signature campaign on this Bitcoin talk forum, or is the term 'signature campaign' strictly attributed to gambling platforms?

I'm trying to understand the rules conveyed by: @mprep.
Example:

Service Announcements (child board of Marketplace) - "New services and significant information about existing services. Do not create excessive "announcements" just to advertise your service." All Bitcoin service website announcements should go here.

Service Discussion (child board of Marketplace) - "Comments and questions about specific Bitcoin services or about all Bitcoin services." This includes discussion of Bitcoin sites (both specific and in general), discussion about technical problems of such sites (API doesn't work, etc.).

Quote above, maybe I draw one conclusion, it is not mandatory for gambling platforms to advertise here, as long as you comply Signature Campaign Guidelines (read this before starting or joining a campaign), I think you can do it well, without any obstacles, the point is: pay with Bitcoin.

° Is there another kind of forum for online businesses that accepts Bitcoin as payment, which is similar in concept like this forum? If no, is there any other discovery you have had that's close in initiative to an active community as this, which aims to help advertise, market, educate, inform and encourage adopting payments in BTC and crypto currency in general?

This question reminds me of one of the sources about Top 35 Cryptocurrency Forums, Discussions and Message Boards., but I don't know whether they pay or not like what is felt on Bitcointalk, which is certain that they provide Bitcoin.

[Cryptomultiplier]

You are on point with the metrics you provided. Although I can't ascertain how incoherent the results might be if this metrics is used as a standard to measure the success or failure of any similar forum as this, but this metrics will sure do and is notably still the best one yet.

Keep in mind that external factors also affect the increase or decrease of activity on the forum. For example, always during the bull run and when Bitcoin reaches its historical highest point, interest in it rises sharply like all other cryptocurrencies. I believe that some parallel graphs would show it well.
The same thing happens in the opposite direction, when it's bearish and when everything goes down, interest also decreases and activity on the forum decreases.

I am still trying to understand fully how the bearish or bullish run affects activity on this forum, because I know quite well that those who are campaigning for signatures and avatar here, got to meet up with their numbers be it in a bullish or bearish run/season.
If a member here is a trader and uses of course a different trading platform, is not in any campaign or have any responsibility here that they can be held accountable to, I don't still see how the bearish or bullish run can interfer with activities on this forum. I beg to differ however.

[decodx]

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I don't still see how the bearish or bullish run can interfer with activities on this forum. I beg to differ however.

Just give it a moment, let it marinate, and the light bulb will surely flicker on!

By the way, take a look at the registration date on your forum account. Just a month after the ATH! Quite the coincidence, isn't it?

[Aanuoluwatofunmi]

Any organizations can come and use this platform to use it as an avenue for their campaign irrespective of the service or the organization, the aim behind a signature campaign is to advertise to the whole world about their services, but this has to be with conformity with the forum rules and regulations together with the signature campaign rules, it just often happens that we see more of a gambling or mixing signature campaign on the forum than other sectors, but that doesn't mean others aren't accepted here as well to make their adverts.

[The Cryptovator]

The forum terms are that signature campaign payments in Bitcoin should run through the service section, and it shouldn't phishing or harmful sites that possibly steal or hack users funds. For altcoins, they should run through the altcoin service section. Nevermind, even if your business isn't related to Bitcoin, you must pay a reward in Bitcoin in order to run a campaign in the service section.

The forum users terms for running signature campaigns should be legit business; cheating and scams aren't appreciated by forum users. That's the condition I have found so far. In summary, you can run a signature for any legit business.

[KingsDen]

° Can an online business besides just a gambling platform, which accepts Bitcoin as payments or for payouts, run a signature campaign on this Bitcoin talk forum, or is the term 'signature campaign' strictly attributed to gambling platforms?

You asked this question because gambling signature campaign seem to dominate the forum. But I will have to mention some other types of projects that run signature campaign in this forum that are not gambling companies;

• Mixers - After the fall of chipmixer, we have had and still having many mixers in the forum, majority of which is managed by Royse77 and icopress.
• Exchanges - I have seen many and including the ones that scammed that ran campaign in the forum. But the best of them which is still strong and running a long term campaign is Best_change
• Others - like decentralisation centred companies like Utopia is running campaign, Trust bank did, wintomato and many others.

[TheUltraElite]

Answering your first question, Signature campaigns started with Primedice before I even came to the forum, I learnt mostly from fellow members and has been gambling sites as the lions share but eventually different other companies came in. ICOs had their short campaigns at one time which flooded the forum along with campaigners using unfair means to accumulate as much as possible. Mixers and Exchanges have been the next few share.

For your second question, there have been many other forums for cryptocurrency and one of the iconic post-incentivising forums was cryptotalk, which still exists but the spam was so huge that they shut down that feature and now its a somewhat dead forum, you can visit it yourself and see. Still the lions share is bitcointalk and lets hope it remains like that.