The OGs of Bitcointalk

[Floxynice]

Before I proceed with my suggestions, I want to state the following things.

• I am very happy today because I stumbled on the Satoshi thread in the forum Welcome to the new Bitcoin forum!
• I sent merit to Satoshi, so I am confident to brag to my friends that I am in the same forum where Satoshi developed bitcoin and I sent Satoshi a merit gift
• It is saddening how communication has changed in the forum. I have been reading the Satoshi threads and people were writing a few line posts and they were very humorous and engaging. You will not help but smile as you read and wish you existed then. Fast forward till today, people write long posts like machines and there's no humour in it. Some high rank people accuse new people of the offence they didn't commit and tag them. They bully people to leave this place for them alone
• This is the forum I have seen where old is better than new. The new is good because there are more people now. But I don't get tired reading the old posts. I don't know if it is because I have this natural love for old things, the reason why I visit the museums more than the cinema, unlike my fellow girls

My observation
I observed that most of the Bitcointalk OGs have custom titles such as "donator", "untrustworthy", "V2.0", "Early bitcoin miner" etc

• How about if the admin gives the old people that communicated with Satoshi, who are still active a custom title of "OG" or "Bitcointalk OG" or "OG Bitcoiner". At the end of this post, I will drop the list of people who discussed in the Satoshi thread that are still active who can be given the OG title or we track it by the year of registration
• I have voted recently in the community award. I saw categories such as bitcoin hero, bitcoin geek, local hero, craft master and more. The admin can also include this custom title for the winners of that particular year

List of active people 2024/25 who discussed in Satoshi welcome thread

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sirius
theymos
ingrownpocket
AmazonStuff
cbeast
jojo69
greyhawk
BTCLuke
Stunna
felipelalli
firsttimeuser
neutralist
marcotheminer
mmitech
Dabs
paraipan
smoothie
qwk
goozman96
disclaimer201
Remember remember the 5th of November
Liquid
jbreher
BitCoinDream
e1ghtSpace
keithers
Amph
EFS
2dogs

From this list and some other iconic threads, we can get the list of Bitcointalk OGs or from date of registration.
Please, theymos unlock the Satoshi thread, let me post something there and you lock it back(just joking...I know he will not do that).
I am happy and grateful to my fiance for introducing me here. Thank you all for reading.

[hd49728]

Images are too large. You need to reduce its display size with width or height

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You can use only width, only height or both.

You can check VIP members, donator members, and very first forum members with following sources.
https://bitcointalk.org/donate.html

LoyceV's complete List of all Bitcointalk usernames
https://loyce.club/usernames/usernames.txt

Don't miss Jet Cash.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=698159

[un_rank]

I observed that most of the Bitcointalk OGs have custom titles such as "donator", "untrustworthy", "V2.0", "Early bitcoin miner" etc

They chose the titles themselves as donators (50BTC+) to the forum. The forum is no longer accepting donations, so you cannot choose a custom title for yourself.

• How about if the admin gives the old people that communicated with Satoshi, who are still active a custom title of "OG" or "Bitcointalk OG" or "OG Bitcoiner".

Why isolate a single thread to give out titles? Satoshi created other threads and many more people interacted with him on them.

- Jay -

[Floxynice]

Images are too large. You need to reduce its display size with width or height

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You can use only width, only height or both.

Thank you. When I uploaded the images with talkImage, they gave me a default width and height, but it was so large and I removed it. What is the recommended hxw for small images.

Edited: Thank you. I used 200 for height. I think it should be fine now. I use mobile phone, I don't know how it will appear on desktop.

@Jay, yes, there are other threads. I just pointed out one which is very iconic to me.

[hd49728]

I used 200 for height. I think it should be fine now. I use mobile phone, I don't know how it will appear on desktop.

They are still quite big with me. You can see another thread and adjust width or height smaller like that thread if you like it.
Save your nice merit records here.

Images there are visually smaller than yours.

@Jay, yes, there are other threads. I just pointed out one which is very iconic to me.

He is a truly og. His age is about 80s.
Another birthday - how about an octogenarian club here?

After checking, I can see he is 83 in 2025 and I don't know anyone in forum is older than Jet Cash and revealed their ages publicly.

Happy 81st birthday to our oldest member who is still active in every sense of the word🎂🍾🥂

[Cryptohygenic]

After said old timers bullies the new timers does it still make sense recognizing such old timers at this era of platform as OGs? Because that seems to be highily graded and exemptional to other members.
Regardless of those who had been here during the time of Satoshi, I humbly acknowledge them with a doff of my cap but I think it is unnecessary having that remark of OGs. Like said, even some new timers are  more relevant to the old timers because individual attributes to the wills to the forum matters which any user can become a solution to the community.
I verily acknowledge it is the deeds of the OGs too that has brought about what we enjoy in the forum today as the forum is a tip to advance by individual ideas that are put to good working.

[gmaxwell]

How about if the admin gives the old people that communicated with Satoshi, who are still active a custom title of "OG" or "Bitcointalk OG" or "OG Bitcoiner". At the end of this post, I will drop the list of people who discussed in the Satoshi thread that are still active who can be given the OG title or we track it by the year of registration

I'm guessing most of those accounts have long since been taken over by hackers or sold, so you'd potentially just be giving some scammer undeserved recognition.

Plus when they are held by their original owner they may not want the additional recognition.  But if they do they can note their posts in their signatures.

[hd49728]

I'm guessing most of those accounts have long since been taken over by hackers or sold, so you'd potentially just be giving some scammer undeserved recognition.

Plus when they are held by their original owner they may not want the additional recognition.  But if they do they can note their posts in their signatures.

Like this list, full of scammers and some famous scam activities in the past.
Legendary profiles of bitcointalk.

Many accounts were hacked in three forum hacks with mass accounts were compromised but there are accounts hacked separately and don't relate to past forum hacks.
Bitcointalk history of hacks and vandalism.

[Alone055]

Some high rank people accuse new people of the offence they didn't commit and tag them. They bully people to leave this place for them alone.

Can you show us a few examples of the bullying you refer to? Because I disagree with that. Someone who gets tagged unjustly can always raise their issue with valid points and provable evidence, and if it's proven that they have been bullied and the tags are not justified, they are reverted.

The trust system has been a huge improvement for the forum, and it is very useful if you ask me. Can you imagine this forum without the trust system? There would be no trusted members; anyone with a legendary rank would be considered a reputable member, which wouldn't be fair at all because not everyone has a history of good trades in the forum and can be trusted.

Anyway, when it comes to the custom titles you are suggesting, I agree with @gmaxwell on that.

[Pablo-wood]

• It is saddening how communication has changed in the forum. I have been reading the Satoshi threads and people were writing a few line posts and they were very humorous and engaging. You will not help but smile as you read and wish you existed then. Fast forward till today, people write long posts like machines and there's no humour in it. Some high rank people accuse new people of the offence they didn't commit and tag them. They bully people to leave this place for them alone

I don't think anyone bullies low rank account to leave the community. This is almost an anonymous space so everyone has to be careful they way the exchange information and interact to avoid being scammed. There have been cases of hacks, scam and impersonation so to avoid being a victim new account/low rank account has to be checked occasionally until they have established a good reputation to be earn some trust.

Communication were fairly short and precise during the early days of bitcointalk because back then communication were more on technical issues but today we have more users on the economic, societal, political, scam related, meta and gambling application of bitcoin as well as off-topics so to sell out your point you have to make the post engaging and lengthy.

[airfinex]

[quoteThey chose the titles themselves as donators (50BTC+) to the forum. The forum is no longer accepting donations, so you cannot choose a custom title for yourself.[/quote]

     it's not 50 bitcoins, it was more like 100 pounds at that time.

If someone had written to the admin and offered to donate 2 million pounds, he wouldn't have refused.

[philipma1957]

[quoteThey chose the titles themselves as donators (50BTC+) to the forum. The forum is no longer accepting donations, so you cannot choose a custom title for yourself.

     it's not 50 bitcoins, it was more like 100 pounds at that time.

If someone had written to the admin and offered to donate 2 million pounds, he wouldn't have refused.
[/quote]

Maybe he would   not want the tax issues and reject the coins.

If I was offered 50 coins I would not accept them until I got an IRS ruling on them.

Thermos would be in the same shape.

USA laws are written that

 a. You owe tax on 5 million
b. If the coins are tainted the government can take them.
c. You still owe tax on the illegally obtained coins.

[Catenaccio]

     it's not 50 bitcoins, it was more like 100 pounds at that time.

If someone had written to the admin and offered to donate 2 million pounds, he wouldn't have refused.

Donators and VIP members donated their bitcoins in the past, not in Euro, pound or US dollar. They possibly calculated their bitcoin donation in fiat value (or they did not), but they donated bitcoins, not other coins or fiat currencies.

In the past, forum security bounties paid in gold, troy ounces of gold converted to Bitcoin equivalent value.
https://web.archive.org/web/20140420064832/https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=309785.0

error, one of bug bounty receivers with this address https://web.archive.org/web/20150517201352/https://blockchain.info/address/115TXGkA2b2Qqg3WP2Q6YMPzVgZL3UkaFt

[Floxynice]

They chose the titles themselves as donators (50BTC+) to the forum. The forum is no longer accepting donations, so you cannot choose a custom title for yourself.

I think it was the admin who gave those titles and not people that chose it. Because no one will choose untrustworthy


Does this mean that the forum was moderating scam before. But later theymos stopped moderating scam and left it for the community to handle.

[UchihaSarada]

I think it was the admin who gave those titles and not people that chose it. Because no one will choose untrustworthy


Does this mean that the forum was moderating scam before. But later theymos stopped moderating scam and left it for the community to handle.

It is a custom title, and if you only know about it with Craig Wright account in 2025, you can not know when theymos assigned that custom title.

There are other forum members with custom titles.
Users with Custom Title

[Mpamaegbu]

[quoteThey chose the titles themselves as donators (50BTC+) to the forum. The forum is no longer accepting donations, so you cannot choose a custom title for yourself.

     it's not 50 bitcoins, it was more like 100 pounds at that time.
[/quote]

I read Get Donator status by donating 10 BTC and realized there actually was a time members doled out Bitcoin like that for fancy embellishments. I'm not sure there was any special privilege assigned to such. If there were, it could be something then as Bitcoin wasn't worth much at the time. It's obvious now that Bitcoin is smashing $100k, nobody will dare donate 1BTC now. That I'm sure.

[NotATether]

If you really want to know who's a forum OG easily, just petition the admin to display registration month and year under the activity and merit for each profile at the left-hand side of each post.

OGs are generally considered to have been here before 2014.

[Floxynice]

How about if the admin gives the old people that communicated with Satoshi, who are still active a custom title of "OG" or "Bitcointalk OG" or "OG Bitcoiner". At the end of this post, I will drop the list of people who discussed in the Satoshi thread that are still active who can be given the OG title or we track it by the year of registration

I'm guessing most of those accounts have long since been taken over by hackers or sold, so you'd potentially just be giving some scammer undeserved recognition.

This is a valid argument

If you really want to know who's a forum OG easily, just petition the admin to display registration month and year under the activity and merit for each profile at the left-hand side of each post.

A nice idea. Just one line of code can do it. Nov. 2014

OGs are generally considered to have been here before 2014.

There must be a few of them still available and according to staff gmaxwell, some percentage of the accounts might be under the control of hackers.

[Cryptohygenic]

If you really want to know who's a forum OG easily, just petition the admin to display registration month and year under the activity and merit for each profile at the left-hand side of each post.

OGs are generally considered to have been here before 2014.

Sorry to ask, would petitioning the admin make a good value at this quest when we can always see the registration dates at the visit of each and every profile?
I am just curious to clear my doubts, I learnt bitcointalk was discovered in the early days bitcoin was formed which should be around 2009-2010 and based on my research to the discovery of the core OG, to my founding only Theymos has been one OG keeping active in the forum since then up to date. Maybe some be here pseudonymously while Theymos administrative office pulled him out identifiably.
So I need to know if those days old users that has not been known could be pinned out here somedays let's just give it an applause.

[Mrbluntzy]

If you really want to know who's a forum OG easily, just petition the admin to display registration month and year under the activity and merit for each profile at the left-hand side of each post.

OGs are generally considered to have been here before 2014.

Personally, I'd think that when referring to OGs of Bitcointalk,  it should not only comprise of the old members that registered in 2014, but those users that have actively contributed to making the forum to still remain outstanding in Bitcoin discussions and a trusted place to source for knowledgeable Bitcoin information. The list that OP provided did not even mention any OG that I know. (My opinion, sir)