| Date | Thread | Background Story |
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| Jan 8 | Hiding content (SMF patch) | The year started with some suggestions for Bitcointalk improvement. PowerGlove created a new SMF patch for hiding content. Theymos has not approved this yet, maybe he will do so in the new year. |
| Jan 22 | Ross Ulbricht is coming home in January! | If you are a bitcoin OG then you would remember the Silk Road era and everything that came with it. Many in the bitcoin community had always thought that the punishment given to the silk road founder Ross Ulbricht was too harsh. During the 2024 US elections, Trump promised to free Ross Ulbricht if elected, and on January 22, Ross Ulbricht was granted a presidential pardon after 12 years in prison. |
| Jan 24 | Public request to Theymos for a name change | PokerPlayer surprises the community as he announced that he had quit playing poker and made a public request to Theymos for his username to be changed. |
| Jan 27 | Naija board 2024/2025 cooking contest official STATS and ANN | The Nigerian board hosted her first ever cooking contest in December 2024 to celebrate the holidays and diverse Nigerian culture. Mia Chloe was the organizer and the results of the contest was released in the new year. |
| Feb 3 | No longer pursuing Epochtalk | This is arguably the most significant event of the year. No one was prepared for the bombshell that was about to be dropped. Theymos announced that the forum was no longer pursuing Epochtalk. This revelation was met with mixed reactions from the community; some were okay with SMF software and the additions that have been made in recent years while others expressed their frustration at the turn of events. There were several threads created throughout January to debate this decision and how it affected the forum] |
| Feb 8 | | February is the season of love and gifts but what is love without a little drama? BitcoinGirl.Club and Vod reignited their old feud, I'm not sure who/what started the beef but the dispute lasted for months. |
| Feb 17 | Improving the word-breaker (SMF patch) | PowerGlove suggests an improvement to the word-breaker feature |
| Feb 22 | AI Spam Report Reference Thread | Spammers have turned to AI to do their work for them and flood the forum with generic posts while building their alt farm. To effectively combat this challenge, Nutildah updated the list of AI detectors to give reporters a better chance at identifying AI generated posts and keeping the forum clean |
| March 22 | [Results 2024] Bitcointalk Community Awards 🏆 | GazetaBitcoin and icopress announced the winners of the 2024 Bitcointalk Community Awards. |
| March 25 | who is notocactus | ]Forum members wonder who is this legendary member Notocactus. Could he be a Roman gladiator or a beautiful flower? No one knows. |
| March 29 | Talksearch.io - Advanced Bitcointalk Search Engine | NotATether launches Talksearch.io |
| April 1 | [April fools] Adjustments to Merit calculation | As part of Bitcointalk April Fools tradition, Theymos and PowerGlove pulls April’s Fools prank on forum members. This year, Theymos introduced a new system that charged users merits for posting. The cost was 1 merit for every 15 character count.
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| April 1 | Re: [TELEGRAM] Yet Another BitcoinTalk Notification BOT (merits, mentions, topics,+) | Also, Ninjastic Bot sent this telegram message to users: “Banned! We detected that you have been permanently banned from BitcoinTalk. You can check the reason”. As you would expect, this cause a bit of panic among many users until they realized what day it was. Other users received notifications with funny messages. |
| April 1 | Was the founder @Satoshi just active? [April Fool] fun | JiiBs was not left out of the fun. He edited a screenshot to make it look as if Satodhi recently logged in the forum. |
| May | Negative Sendable Merits. A bug? | Merit source, Fillippone encountered a problem while trying to distribute his allocated smerits and it quickly became clear that other merit sources were facing the same issue. |
| June 8 | A list of some of the newly appointed merit sources | Theymos removes inactive merit sources and appoints new merit sources - Cryptoaddictchie, SmartGold, joker_josue, Charles-Tim, Mia Chloe, Don Pedro Dinero, cryptofrka, TheUltraElite and others. |
| June 12 | [Voting 2025] Bitcoin Pizza Day on Bitcointalk 🍕 | It is a tradition of BTT to celebrate Bitcoin Pizza Day by hosting a pizza baking contest 🍕 |
| June 12 | My AI experiment on the forum | June also reminded us that there are countless ways to ruin your reputation on bitcointalk. Legendary member seoincorporation was caught using AI to make his posts, he attempted to convince the community that it was an experiment but no one bought that story. |
| July 12 | Re: Squishing the squashed-column bug (SMF patch) | Theymos adds smf patch created by PowerGlove in August, 2024. |
| Aug 22 | Ranking up/ down | PowerGloves proposed a demerit system to help increase post quality on the forum. This idea has been voiced by a few in previous years. |
| Aug 31 | [TOOL] Bitcointalk Weekly Post & Merit Tracker | Ace creates a script for weekly post monitoring and tracking merits. |
| Sept 28 | ANN - 2025 Bitcointalk Annual Pumpkin Carving Contest | The 2025 Bitcoin pumpkin contest thread was created in September by ChiBitCTy. Submissions officially opened on October 1. |
| Oct 2 | Condoras RIP my friend | October began on a sad note, as one of our own passed away. yahoo62278 and the rest of the forum pay their last respects to Condoras |
| Oct 24 | Bitcoin Node Challenge feedback | Bitcoin node challenge was created by NotAtether in 2024 to encourage bitcoiners to run their own node. After a year of running this challenge, NotAtether decided to seek feedback from the community on how to prevent allt farms from taking advantage of the merits given from this challenge. |
| Nov | | Alt farms and account cheaters peaked in 2024/2025, maybe it’s as a result of bitcoin reaching 100k+. Over 50+ alt accounts were exposed in the month of November. |
| Nov 15 | 1miau is now officially declared dead | 1miau sends a farewell message to the forum. |
| Dec 3 | Re: ⭕ BitList.co - Bitcointalk Archive | Data Visualization & Search | One of the forum’s most used tools, ninjastic.space, underwent a rebrand and is now known as BitList Archive. |
| Dec 8 | This forum is fucking awesome | Free market Capitalist takes time to express how much he loves the freedom and quality of discussion on BTT. |
| Dec 8 | Largest Account Farm Ever Found: 24 Connected Accounts | More alt farms exposed. |
| Dec 19 | Re: Mixer Restrictions | Those who were here during the CM era know why mixers were banned on the forum. After a new service appeared, it sparked debate whether or not it was a mixer or an exchange. This debate reignited old arguments, and finally Theymos updated mixer ban to address the situation. |
