Bitcointalk vs. YouTube from an educational viewpoint

[bananaunana]

For Bitcoin, YouTube and Bitcointalk offer a lot of content but what do we need to consider when it comes about evaluating Bitcointalk and YouTube from an educational viewpoint?
Education about how to store, send and know Bitcoin’s technology [Blockchain] properly, is very important, as losses from hacks, coins stolen on centralized exchanges, mistakes by storing backup copies, sending to a wrong address, phishing sites, malware stealer or different scams have shown repeatedly.

Bitcoin is not easy to understand and education can help us to understand it correctly for avoiding mistakes.



YouTube

Numbered in clicks, YouTube is a top source of crypto, where many videos are available. We have special YouTubers doing content about Bitcoin and Crypto. But unfortunately, information quality on YouTube is not very high for most videos because of hype and clickbait videos.
Education requires a detailed research and most YouTubers are not doing a detailed research, it’s mostly staying generic information. Many new videos added every day are also a problem because quality if suffering = quality vs quantity.

An even bigger problem on YouTube is an artificial hype to attract more viewers and get more clicks.
Because it’s an important point for each YouTuber to generate clicks and views and followers. Hate, FUD, propaganda and unproven speculations are a key part of YouTuber’s attention whoring, too. And it is damaging for society when hate, FUD, propaganda or unproven claims are made.
Outrageous claims like launching speculative fake hype videos are a key strategy from many YouTubers to get clicks and views and followers.
= YouTubers want to create hype to increase clicks, not quality information.

It is always similar strategy for YouTubers to create hype instead of presenting normal information. It is very dangerous for us because accurate information is not presented. Instead, reality is hyped and exaggerated.
In many cases, YouTubers are paid by Altcoin projects to present certain Altcoins in a positive way, to create hype and to shill an Altcoin. For a high payment by projects, many YouTubers will only mention positive facts and forget often to inform about risks and flaws of a project to get many followers to invest.
Or it's about a shady exchange, where YouTubers will also get a profit if you sign up from a referral link.
= information quality is suffering and sometimes very misleading

It is very important for us to know YouTuber's hype video is not good advice, it is not really about education in many YouTuber’s video and we need to know YouTuber’s shady tricks.


A detailed description how YouTube deceives viewers can be found in my topic YouTuber's hype video is not good advice



Bitcointalk

Bitcointalk is very different from YouTube because Bitcointalk is a forum.
A forum is a much better approach to get accurate information, because in Bitcointalk it's easy for writers to go into detail by a structured and detailed text, it can be a guide, where we can re-read all important information, presented step by step.
Next, someone else comes and contributes his own knowledge on top of former comments in Bitcointalk, where additional knowledge is added and former knowledge get peer-reviewed.

In general, a forum is less based on hype, it is more text and more about education. It is less stressful to do our research in texts, it’s like a big library.
= Library can be boring sometimes but it’s always high quality content.

YouTube is mostly based on hype, accurate information comes second.
= YouTube is like a big circus. And like in circus, we will get a spectacular show and also clowns but little education.

Bitcointalk is suited for education, YouTube just for hype and YouTubers are milking hype.


In Bitcointalk as well, we can find very detailed guides, explanations from many experienced developers.
It's a large range of knowledge from many people, where everyone can contribute his knowledge.
While for such YouTubers, it is often only half-baked content, many YouTubers lack coding knowledge and when such people do a video, it might contain not very accurate information. In YouTube, how to generate clicks is more important.

My first choice for education is Bitcointalk, by far.

[Ambatman]

This thread most have cost you quite some efforts. I believe it could have been summarized that Bitcointalk provide accurate information's compared to YouTube
To be sincere, I don't see why they should be compared
BTT should be compared with Github
Not YouTube that's now filled with clickbaits
Like coin to buy to make 300000%.
If one is looking for accurate information or education on the crytospace
Then Github and Bitcointalk would be recommended by me.

[bananaunana]

This thread most have cost you quite some efforts. I believe it could have been summarized that Bitcointalk provide accurate information's compared to YouTube
To be sincere, I don't see why they should be compared

Because it is important to know to apply big caution to YouTuber's video. Wrong / biased information in YouTube videos happens often.
See YouTuber's hype video is not good advice.
Still, YouTube is very famous and uneducated / new people can get wrong / misleading information.

BTT should be compared with Github

It's really difficult to compare Bitcointalk and GitHub because it's fundamental different site. GitHub is for professionals, coders and builders, to exchange coding stuff, make it available. Bitcointalk is for researching and asking questions, offering Bitcoin services, normal project announcements and very important: forum discussions also for normal people, ike Beginners and Help.
Bitcointalk does not offer download and upload because of security risk.
It's a very different structure.

[Doan9269]

For Bitcoin, YouTube and Bitcointalk offer a lot of content but what do we need to consider when it comes about evaluating Bitcointalk and YouTube from an educational viewpoint?

You cannot compare YouTube to bitcoin, the purpose of the creation of each platform is what should be considered first before we can know what to say about each of them, they are both serving their purpose, bitcoin was created by its developer Satoshi for bitcoin discussions with other people from all over the world, youth is just for posting visual contents on various things to enlight, inform and educate others, so I will rather say that bitcointalk is educative on its own aspect and same as YouTube.

[bananaunana]

For Bitcoin, YouTube and Bitcointalk offer a lot of content but what do we need to consider when it comes about evaluating Bitcointalk and YouTube from an educational viewpoint?

You cannot compare YouTube to bitcoin

I have not compared YouTube and Bitcoin.
I have compared YouTube and Bitcointalk - from an educational viewpoint, like where we have better content for education.

[MFahad]

OP your post is very long. Old members maybe skip to read your content. I would advise you to keep your content short and to the point to attract reader. In two paragraphs you could explain your full thread content. I appreciate your work on the thread as it written bybm yourself. Keep it up..

I learned from reading your content that you want to tell us that crypto beginners should choose Bitcointalk forum instead of youtube because here everyone will get correct information while youtube have not such a valuable information.

I agree with your point and besides hype most of the youtubers making video for just a promotion and viewers get false information.  exchanges influencers are also misleading people but this doesn't mean that we ignore the popularity and number of people joining crypto. Every one has own interests. people love to read and take part in discussion choose Bitcointalk forum and users love to watch video use youtube. both are different platform for different purpose and knowledge could be gained from both places.

[alankasman]

Bitcointalk vs. YouTube from an educational viewpoint

From an educational perspective, YouTube is very up to date, regardless of the fact that they present content for profit.
Those of us who seek knowledge by using YouTube do not directly receive the information conveyed because we also use comparisons.
If knowledge of something we are looking for on YouTube can help answer problems after comparison, of course YouTube is worthy of being used as an educational platform.

The bitcointalk forum is quite extensive and in my opinion is very different from the knowledge obtained on YouTube for those who feel it after making comparisons.

[Upgrade00]

OP your post is very long. Old members maybe skip to read your content. I would advise you to keep your content short and to the point to attract reader. In two paragraphs you could explain your full thread content. I appreciate your work on the thread as it written bybm yourself. Keep it up..

Old members have no issue reading long and detailed posts of the content is educative and interesting enough. This is a forum and reading paragraphs is essential to the communication process.

If a message can be passed in 2 lines then do not add fillers to make the post more readable, it doesn't add anything more educative for the reader. But if you need multiple paragraphs to pass your message, use that.

[SatoPrincess]

OP next time try to be more concise. You can get your point across which less text. You obviously put a lot of effort into writing a wall of text (even more stressful if you’re using a mobile) but I think you could have structured it better. Probably make a brief discussion on the pros and cons of using both platforms. Bitcointalk isn’t perfect, you know. YouTube isn’t all bad either, you just have to fish for the good stuff.

Most times when newbies ask for advice on how to learn bitcoin, we also recommend Andreas Antonopoulos YouTube channel. There are also other good materials on YouTube that are useful. Sure it’s a cesspool, content creators promote all sorts of shitcoins to their followers and there is a lot of misinformation going on there but if you aren’t looking for some quick money it will be very difficult for those guys to sell you.

[bananaunana]

OP your post is very long. Old members maybe skip to read your content. I would advise you to keep your content short and to the point to attract reader.

I'm more in favor of a detailed explanation, it is comparable to Bitcointalk vs. YouTube.
Bitcointalk is detailed explanation, YouTube is superficial (and also hype + speculation).

exchanges influencers are also misleading people but this doesn't mean that we ignore the popularity and number of people joining crypto.

Yes, especially centralized exchanges want to mkake us store our cons centralized, do many trades (to pay more trading fees and exchange will get more revenue).

OP next time try to be more concise. You can get your point across which less text. You obviously put a lot of effort into writing a wall of text (even more stressful if you’re using a mobile) but I think you could have structured it better.

I have added a better structure, should be easier to read now.

The bitcointalk forum is quite extensive and in my opinion is very different from the knowledge obtained on YouTube for those who feel it after making comparisons.

A big benefit of Bitcointalk is to have different section, where content is easier to find + ask questions of course. We can't really ask questions on YouTube.

[Smartvirus]

Do we really have to bring these two to any form of comparison?
While one counts as social media (YouTube), the other (Bitcointalkforum) is a community of like minds with some anti to ensure proper discussions on a course to its dilute state.

Contents on YouTube might be censored and it inset really subject to discussion, just where you have a single teacher. A know all figure kind of trying to teach you all there ideas be it wrong or right but, it’s not the case with Bitcointalkforum.  The forum is open to a large variety of people from diverse educational backgrounds, all involve in teaching as well as learning at the same time. You’re not being forced on an idea but everything is subject to discussion until you’re fully satisfied with the discussions on a course.

Meanwhile, the highly moderates nature of Bitcointalkforum ensure there isn’t any censorship on discussions and that informations relayed to the public are legit.

[EL MOHA]

I have not compared YouTube and Bitcoin.
I have compared YouTube and Bitcointalk - from an educational viewpoint, like where we have better content for education.

Base on This I will simply say Bitcointalk is far more ahead in terms of giving more accurate information than YouTube. This doesn’t mean one needs to rely on every information from here too and that’s why the phrase Do your own research is always attached to each information given here.

The reason why Bitcointalk gives more accurate information is because if a fake one is given by a member, other knowledgeable people will easily debunk it and if it is even malicious it will get deleted by the Mods.

[Queentoshi]

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You know that just as there is a huge difference between a specialist in the medical field and then a general body doctor in the medical field, there is a huge difference between Bitcointalk which is the specialist in this situation concerning bitcoins and not YouTube that contains varying knowledge on many things from different people. There are things to learn from YouTube, but concerning bitcoins, being a member of this forum is the best way to learn about it.

[Hamza2424]

__MY VIEW PONT__

TBH, both are good let me explain why.

Firstly YouTube is good because the tutorials explain more with animation and some realtime examples as well what we hear we adopt more, with these perks YouTube can serve more in assisting for education perpouse because many new gen era people don't like to read more. At the same time, many masters efficiently provide accurate information with their art of expressing things at the same time Others, however, devolve into mindless montages, orbiting the point like moths around a flame.

Secondly, I personally prefer Bitcointak because here, you can go through each and every perspective with the discussion on a single topic while going through the, also you have real-time assistance with your queries from other members. The most significant perk of Bitcointalk is the Sneiors you can ask for help, and guidance and learn from their experiences which you really cant through any tutorial master. The more accurate information is available (easy to access) on Bitcointalk with some quality topics At the same time for the quality of content on the Yotuutbe you need to spend significant time scrolling and listening to the tutorials to obtain what you are looking for.

[Odusko]

Bitcointalk is just a forum for interactions, and members have diverse and different opinions on several things here, so if we option to compare this forum with other platforms it tends to misguide you out of the box to some place where alot of misconceptions can happen, many times some newbies come up with this type of comparison but at the end of the day, you end up not getting what actually make up for the argument bases and this has been happening alot of times before.
If we tend to compare both Bitcointalk and YouTube we may also get a misguided conclusion since both platforms offer the same services and for that, we may easily make mistakes in dealing with the actual bases of the comparison, all the same ops you tried to have taken the time to put write up out for better education and your detail explanantio6of the two platform shows some detail explanation of the whole thing.

[Churchillvv]

Firstly, I will congratulate your efforts in putting down something to look creative though it's not creative enough as the nail point was set aside and kept beating around the bush.

Additionally, my point of view is quite different from what you have said about YouTube.
Let me buttress, Everything has its own purpose, YouTube, GitHub and Bitcointalk has different purposes and all serves it's purpose very well.
YouTube Is a visual educational ground that teaches alot of things including Bitcoin knowledge in diverse ways, it could be the positive or negative information in all depends on the seeker to focus on the information which he/she wants. YouTube is as important as the compared places to learn about Bitcoin because there are lot of people who don't understand much reading but learn faster when watching videos, that's where YouTube comes in to help.

GitHub Is more like a library where you can read to master Bitcoin. It serves it's own purpose just as YouTube too.

Bitcointalk Is a forum, or a global group conversation that Bitcoin fans communication what there might have learnt from both youtube and GitHub.

Hope I have made something clear a little bit....

[SatoPrincess]

Contents on YouTube might be censored and it inset really subject to discussion, just where you have a single teacher.

I agree. Information on YouTube can be censored on two levels. One by YouTube itself and the other is by the content or creator. YouTube can decide to bring down a video or ban a channel which they think is putting out “misleading information” or something that’s against their TOS, you are getting blocked. Also content creators can censor their comment sections and delete comments that don’t support the content they are posting.


A forum will always be better for learning because there is room for discussion and debate unlike YouTube, where everything is one sided and viewers are expected to swallow everything they watch online.

[GxSTxV]

Well, I’m sorry but I couldn’t read all your topic, it’s so long. However, your effort is very appreciated sharing your point of view.

While for such YouTubers, it is often only half-baked content, many YouTubers lack coding knowledge and when such people do a video, it might contain not very accurate information. In YouTube, how to generate clicks is more important.

My first choice for education is Bitcointalk, by far.

I don’t necessarily agree with you in many points, we can’t say that youtube isn’t a good source of informations and tutorials. It’s only the way you pick and choose good channels and YouTubers to follow. Some stuff about Bitcoin are better to be explained with a video and animation for a quick and easy understanding.
Let’s take for instance Blockchain, when I heard about it first time or actually read about it, I had to go through Youtube and search for an educational video with animation and took me only few minutes to fully understand it. If I was only depending on Bitcointalk or articles it will take hours for me to take up with.

The great thing about Bitcointalk simply is talking, asking questions, and users also explaining and correcting your wrong informations. It’s better to use both for education purposes, take the good things and avoid the spam and bad things from them.

[KingsDen]

Is there supposed to be a comparison between a cryptocurrency forum and a YouTube which has no niche but rather an open ground for everyone. I remember that one of the mods of bitcointalk or group of people started a bitcointalk channel in YouTube. Can you also confidently compare bitcointalk with twitter or facebook? Bitcointalk is outstanding because it has a nich and is the king of the niche.

Talking about general information, YouTube is better than bitcointalk.
Talking about a place to learn skills, YouTube is also better,
But talking about cryptocurrency information, bitcointalk remains undefeated as it stands out among others. There are many people in the bitcointalk forum who are willing to give out valuable information about Bitcointalk and cryptocurrency at larger just for free.

[Learn Bitcoin]

My first choice for education is Bitcointalk, by far.

Isn't it stupid to compare a forum with a Video streaming/sharing platform? Both have their legacy. Bitcointalk cannot be like YouTube and YouTube cannot be like Bitcoin Talk. The user base is not the same. I often watch YouTube videos to solve issues like setting up a new operating system. Last week I bought a new router so I could flash OpenWRT into it and use WIFI according to my wish.

YouTube helped me a lot when I was having trouble flashing it in Windows. Then I found another video that showed how easy it is to flush OpenWRT with a Linux operating system. A video tutorial can explain a thousand times better than a text article. On the other hand, A video could be unable to explain better than a text article. You have to understand the difference. It's a stupid thing to compare them.