[Voting 2025] Bitcointalk Community Awards 🏆

[Foxpup]

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Hero of Good: LoyceV

LoyceV naturally stands alone as the forum's greatest living legend.

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Forum Ninja: suchmoon, fillipone, LoyceV

suchmoon, fillipone, and LoyceV remain as indispensable to the forum as ever in their own subtle ways.

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Bitcoin Geek: achow101, gmaxwell

achow101 and gmaxwell are still doing their part to keep the Development & Technical Discussion boards sane.

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Best Event: Bitcoin Pizza Day pizza bake-off, Naija board Christmas & New Year contest, Bitcoin pumpkin carving contest

Once again, I find myself nominating the pizza bake-off and other food-related contests for the way the bring their respective communities together.

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Best Project: BitList

Yes, I know BitList is more of a revamp of an old project than a new project entirely, but it deserves recognition all the same.

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Discovery of the Year: RebelMoney

RebelMoney gets my vote for their artwork El Regalo.

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Help Buster: LoyceV, GazetaBitcoin, PowerGlove

LoyceV, GazetaBitcoin, PowerGlove remain as helpful as ever, and the forum just wouldn't be the same without them.

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Craft Master: RebelMoney, icopress

Following the same logic as last year, I give a second nomination for the up-and-coming artist RebelMoney, as well as icopress for hosting this contest itself.

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Local Hero: apogio, The Sceptical Chymist

apogio and The Sceptical Chymist are part of the Merit Cycling Club for a reason, after all.

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Miss Bitcointalk: Sandra_hakeem, SatoPrincess, lovesmayfamilis

They're ladies if they say they are (and possibly even if they don't), so let's not get too caught up in technicalities. Not that I have any reason to worry about that, of course...

[Perfectbaby]

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Hero of Good: Theymos, Satoshi 

Without these two users I wouldn't had known the phase of the forum by now, especially to Satoshi who has fought for us in regards to financial freedom.

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Forum Ninja: Tryninja

‎Also a user which I so much love his knowledge, in terms of development and programming.
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 Bitcoin Greek: JayJuanGee 

JJG is one knowledgeable user I so much admire and follow up his guidance and support, since then I have been able to expand my knowledge and wisdom bank through his directives.
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Best Event: Naija board cooking contest 

‎TBH, if those meal presented on the contest where to be physically served meal to forum, I could have eaten enough and woke up in the next contest again to get refilled. What a wonderful event on board
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Best project: Stake.com

well, as far as I know; Stake.com has been one of the awesome projects here on the forum
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 Discovery of the year: *Ace*

I have come to understood that this user puts all efforts to make sure he deployed a tools alternative to what has been existing, those with a little modification.

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Help Buster: nutilda

‎This user has tried his best in making sure that forum remains a safe place for everyone, especially in terms of AI fighting.
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Craft Master: Hhampuz, Icopress 

I see this dude to be professional in their management skills and are well renounced. I love their undying love for the community with outright sincerity.
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Local Hero: Igebotz Charles-Tim,

‎I have seen their input in our local community and I really appreciate their efforts and the role they both played.
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 Miss Bitcointalk: SmartGold01 Lovemayfamillies 

‎These are wonderful women I found on the community and they deserves it.

[notblox1]

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Hero of Good: Hhampuz

Very good manager, he helped me and we worked together on some projects.

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Forum Ninja: theymos

He owns the forum and he is keeping it alive for many years, living legend of bitcointalk.

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Bitcoin Geek: gmaxwell

Bitcoin OG that is active in forum after so many years since 2011.

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Best Event: Bitcoin Pizza Day pizza

This is very interesting competition, and I wish I could many good lookin bitcoin pizzas

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Best Project: BSFL Bitcointalk Sports Fanatics League

Best gambling prediction project that engages bitcointalk community in many seasons.

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Discovery of the Year: Jackpotter casino

Best crypto casino discovery for me, I think this is going to be very popular soon.

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Help Buster: LoyceV

He is very helpful member and I consider him a mascot of bitcointalk forum

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Craft Master: Trofo, cryptofrka

This members are my biggest enemies, but they are doing great job when they are not fighting against me

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Hero of Good:  Satoshi, icopress 

Satoshi's legacy have changed the world and the reason we are having this award.

Icopress have hosted this award for six years, thanks for the good job you are doing in the forum.

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Forum Ninja: JayJuanGee 

JayJuanGee stand out in his writing skills and knowledge of Bitcoin.
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 Bitcoin Greek: GazetaBitcoin, LoyceV 

These are two highly knowledgeable members of the forum whose contribution cannot be overemphasized.

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Best Event: Pizza 🍕 day contest, Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest 

‎These are the most memorable events of the forum.

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Best project: BitList

A very good platform that list a lot of Bitcoin platforms such as exchanges, mixers and others.

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Craft Master: Hhampuz, Icopress 

These are two exceptional managers that have their unique way of delivering the highest quality. When it comes to managing successful projects of the forum, they proud step forward.

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Local Hero: Rikafip, Igebotz 

Rikafip developed a wonderful local board stats that gives overview of how the various local boards are doing. Through his monthly analysis we have seen the growth progress and otherwise, of the various local boards. He deserve the ward because his tool touches all the local boards.

Igebotz have been doing a great job moderating the Nigerian local board.
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 Miss Bitcointalk: SmartGold01, Foxpup

SmartGold01 is one of the notable women in the Nigerian board who have been a big motivation to other females to join the forum and learn about Bitcoin
Foxpup is a notable female figure in the forum who have assemble some of the finest brains when it comes to Bitcoin.

[Mhizlove]

I have not been here up to a year, so I might not be sure to nominate users in all the categories, I will only nominate those I'm sure of and leave the rest.
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Hero of Good: Satoshi, theymos 

Satoshi really did a good job go create Bitcoin and the whole world is currently benefiting from his project.
theymos we all are here because of theymos, he's also and active member, he doesn't post always unless necessary.

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Forum Ninja: TryNinja, JayJuanGee 

TryNinja developed a good project that is used in the forum to detect deleted posts. With his tool you can check anything in the forum and outside the forum. https://bitlist.co/search
JayJuanGee I like his writing style, will love to read his book if he had any.
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 Bitcoin Greek: LoyceV 

Very knowledgeable in the forum.

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Best Event: Halloween Pumpkin Carving Contest, Naija board 2024/2025 Christmas & new year year contest

I did not participate on the Naija board 2024/2025 Christmas & new year cooking contest, but it was really awesome. Very good event of the year, I also participate in the last event, looking forward to participate in the next one.

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Best project: BitList

Best platform in the forum that is used for research https://bitlist.co/search

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Help Buster: Ultegra134

this user is good discovers a lot of uses with AI posts. He is doing a great job in the forum to keep it clear from ai posters.

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Craft Master: Hhampuz, Icopress 

I've worked with Hhampuz and icopres, they are best campaign managers in the forum right now. Hhampuz is the most reputable member in the forum, while icopress followed, he is the organizer of this contest.

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Local Hero: Igebotz 

Igebotz, doing a good job on the Nigerian local board, he's a good moderator and a good source merit.

[fillippone]

SOME EDITING IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS.

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Hero of Good: LoyceV, theymos

The forum is the place we know it because of those two guys here. Thanks for what you are doing, even if we often take it for granted, we should thank you every day.

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Forum Ninja: PowerGlove, TryNinja

They are making the forum a better place for everyone.

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Bitcoin Geek: d5000, JayJuanGee

d5000 When you see his posts, you understand why this community is a notch above the others. He keeps going on with the legacy of old users and Ogs.
JayJuanGee: his infamous walls of text are an infinite source of wisdom about Bitcoin. You always lear something.

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Best Event: (end of) Epochtalk,  April Fool's event, Bitcointalk pizza day contest

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Best Project: BitList

It might not be an entirely new project, but the revamp of the old website with the addition of the API gave the possibility of a totally new insight into the forum.

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Discovery of the Year: *Ace*

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Help Buster: GazetaBitcoin

How could we do without Gazeta? The silent, friendly monster of the forum? He's working under the radar to spread knowledge across the forum with AOBT, working to correct every hidden typos or mispelling!

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Craft Master: Krogothmanhattan, TryNinja, icopress

They contribute to the forum with their relentless pursuit of projects. Krogothmanhattan organises raffles on a continuous roll, TryNinja provides the tech backbone to the community, while icopress organises contests to keep the community alive and united!

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Local Hero: Plutosky, babo

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Miss Bitcointalk: Foxpup

There is no second best.

[mv1986]

Is this until end of February @icopress? Since you said 60 days, I wasn't sure. Going to submit today (Monday) evening.

[icopress]

Is this until end of February @icopress? Since you said 60 days, I wasn't sure. Going to submit today (Monday) evening.

Yes, there are six full days left (until the end of February). I created the thread before I moved it here from the archive (it was there for creating bbcode, cross-links, etc.... in short, I needed an anchor thread). So the end of February is a suitable deadline.

[Proty]

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Hero of Good: - Satoshi Nakamoto 

This award should go to no other person than satoshi nakamoto for his immense contribution and effort that he has put in by gifting the world a precious gift like bitcoin.

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Forum Ninja:  - Jayjayjaungee 

He has proven to be one of the most active members in the forum that has enlighten so many members especially newbies about bitcoin and how the ecosystem works.His most relevant in bitcoin discussion and bitcoin related topics . His posting pattern is very unique, well structured and educating.He has built a presence for himself in the forum that he would be greatly miss by many  if he decides to leave the forum one day. For this reason he deserves the award of forum ninja

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Bitcoin Geek: -Jayjayguangee

Am still nominating jayjayjuangee for this award because he has been very helpful in bitcoin related issues. The way he takes time to break down bitcoin concepts with concrete examples, it becomes more easier for newbies and other forum members to understand.
He also guides members on how to go about there bitcoin investment and the best investment practices. So I do think he truly deserves this award .

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Best Project:  -

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Discovery of the Year: -

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Craft Master: - Hamphuz

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Local Hero: - igebotoz, cryptoprenuerbrainboss and Mia Chloe 

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Miss Bitcointalk: 

[AakZaki]

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Hero of Good: - Theymos, LoyceV, DdmrDdmr

The top three most influential people on this forum

• Theymos - One of the highest rights holders on this forum
• LoyceV - The largest data holder of this forum
• DdmrDdmr - When he launches the Merit Airdrop there will be many users able to receive merit from him.

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Forum Ninja: - LoyceV, TryNinja

These two people present a very useful site that makes my job a lot easier

• LoyceV - with https://loyce.club/
• TryNinja - with https://bitlist.co/search

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Bitcoin Geek: - ABCbits

• ABCbits - I think he's very knowledgeable on technical topics, so when a user writes something wrong he jots it down in his Thread on the Reputation board

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Best Event: - Bitcointalk Community Awards

• Bitcointalk Community Awards - this event is not only about great prizes, but also notes valuable forum contributors.

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Best Project: - BitList

• BitList - Can acquire from old domains, indicating that Bitlist will be a project on an ongoing basis

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Discovery of the Year: - Satofan44 

• Satofan44 - Despite all his controversies that make many people mention his name, he is also a knowledgeable person

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Craft Master: taufik123 -

• taufik123 - He consistently showed his skills as a wood carver until it became a valuable work

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Help Buster: - YOSHIE, julerz12, Awaklara 

• Apart from the names mentioned above these three users YOSHIE, julerz12, Awaklara are also worth mentioning, we can see the contributions he has made in this category.

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Local Hero: - Husna QA

• Husna QA - The only Merit Source in Lokal Indonesia, with its neutral nature and valuable contribution on the Local board, I respect it.

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Miss Bitcointalk: - lovesmayfamilis, SatoPrincess

Two great women with different backgrounds

• lovesmayfamilis - Brave Woman, of all she does like reporting junk posts, makes me like her character.
• SatoPrincess - Calm Woman, a chronological series of what happened on this forum throughout 2025, impressed me.

[Yablee0]

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Hero of Good: - Satoshi, Theymos 

 Satoshi: The brain behind the invention why we are all here, because if not him, we all wouldn't have been here discussing anything.

Theymos: the administrative leaders that tries to carry everyone along by listening to the ideas and opinion of the community members before making or implementing any thing in the forum, and most especially, he loves the forum more than most of us here think, and we can see it in his decisions.

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Forum Ninja:  jayjuangee, Fillippone-

Jayjuangee: with his unique writing style of covering everywhere with a wall of text, you will always understand everything you need to know, even to the most little details, because his teachings on Bitcoin is the best, and is second to none.

Fillippone: a man I respect so much because his words and the way he makes things easy for newbies that knows nothing about Bitcoin is immense, which I think should not be swept under the carpet.

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Bitcoin Geek: jayjuangee, pooya-

Jayjuangee: just as I have already said, he is the best teacher to anything that gets to do with Bitcoin, and if you can follow him with an open heart that is willing to learn how to invest and accumulate Bitcoin consistently, he is the right person to put you through.

Pooya-: a man that is endowed with knowledge on Bitcoin and the technical side of it, that just by tracking his comments on Bitcoin and the every other thing he does in the forum will greatly impact you as a person, so he is my second pick after jayjuangee.

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Best event: Naija cooking contest 2025/2026-

I really like how this contest went, and since it cooking was one of those things I love doing, it was definitely the contest I participated that I liked the most, so it's my pick for the best event.
Secondly, since it's was strictly Nigerian swallow, aka eeba, it makes the competition more African, that's why I take it as my best event of the year.

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Help buster: lovesmayfamilis -

Lovesmayfamilis: she is very active in exposing cheaters in the forum, but why I choose her as the best is that she is the only buster that hardly makes false accusations, because she always do her underground work properly first, before coming out to point fingers, that's why I see her as the best.

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Craft master: Hhampuz-

Hhampuz: most guys here might think that am choosing Hhampuz because he is my manager, but in reality he is very professional and a top manager that knows his job very well, so he is my pick for this category since he is the only one I have experienced working with since I came into this forum.

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 Igebotz, Mia chloe, Cryptoprenuerbrainboss 

Igebotz: The face of the Nigerian local board, because if not for his activeness and commitment in aiding the growth of the local board, I wonder how the local board would have been, because his activeness in deleting spam post is top-notch.
Mia chloe: Mia chloe has really been helpful in recent time in the naija local board, and with greater responsibility on him, I believe that he is going to do very well more than what he is doing now because even with little resources, he is doing better expected.
Cryptoprenuerbrainboss : even though he is not that active quite of late, due to his poor health conditions, but anytime he comes online, you will always know and feel his presence due to how informative his post are, so I will always include him as one of my pick.

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Miss Bitcointalk: lovesmayfamilis -

I don't know any lady in Bitcointalk that is better than her, because she is knowledgeable and really instrumental in keeping the forum clean from cheaters

[PowerGlove]

(Please forgive my laziness: there are many names that I thought to include, and many people that I think deserve more recognition than they get, but, I'm sometimes detail-oriented to a fault, and, combined with the energy-wise slump that I've been going through recently, I know that if I want to avoid overshooting the voting deadline then I need to limit myself to just a handful of nominations.)

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Hero of Good: theymos

I've always liked theymos and his particular way of thinking. This community is very lucky IMO to have someone like him running things.

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Forum Ninja: LoyceV, TryNinja

This category mentions "a member whose name symbolizes consistency", and I think that both these names score very high in that regard. They're always around and always adding value.

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Bitcoin Geek: gmaxwell

For some reason I've stopped hanging out on the D&T board, so I'm not up-to-date on what's been happening over there. But, back when I used to frequent (and back-read) it, I always really enjoyed parsing Greg's posts.

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Best Event: The "mixer ban" being softened slightly

This one really cheered me up, and it gave me a bit of hope that the forum might someday find its way back to a more cypherpunk-compatible philosophy.

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Best Project: BitList.co

I do still miss the old Ninjastic.space site, though. Just saying.

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Discovery of the Year: TypoTonic

I haven't interacted with this user, but, I get good vibes from some of their posts (that is, they seem helpful, constructive, intelligent, and so on).

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Help Buster: nutildah

I enjoy him and always find him to be doing what he can to push back against all the shitbirds trying to bleed this place dry.

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Craft Master: ibminer

I really enjoyed working with him on Merit Poker, and besides leaning on him for all of the game's visual assets, I found him to be full of good ideas and helpful suggestions. He put a ton of effort into his collectible, and I think it turned out very well.

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Local Hero: GazetaBitcoin

GB and I have done our fair share of vote-counting duties together, and he's always very pleasant to work with (and I always enjoy our little chats).

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Miss Bitcointalk: Foxpup

I mean... it's basically a forgone conclusion each year, isn't it? I wish that she was more active (because I mostly only get to enjoy her dry sense of humor by occasionally bumping into her old posts), but, in many ways she's indirectly present via the small corps of quality posters that she supports.

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Forum Ninja: JayJuanGee -

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Bitcoin Geek: JayJuanGee -

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Discovery of the Year: -

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Help Buster: fillippone -

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[LoyceV]

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Hero of Good: o_e_l_e_o

More than two years after he had to leave the forum, his posts still earn more Merit than most users. His legacy will help forum users for many years to come. He definitely left an indelible legacy.

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Forum Ninja: TryNinja

Still the best candidate for this category, and not only because of his name. He's made finding older posts much more accessible, and I still use his site at least weekly.

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Bitcoin Geek: nc50lc, Cricktor, stwenhao

The users above are #2-4 on my Sent Merit list, and I've seen their posts everywhere during the year. I often find myself unable to send more Merit because of the 50 per month limit. Those users are truely Bitcoin Geeks.

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Best Event: Bitcointalk Community Awards

This, of course. Although I always feel like I can't do everyone justice because I'm terrible with names and don't have the time to re-read everything I've read in the past year. Last year I said I should take notes this year, unfortunately I slacked off and had to improvise again.

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Best Project: PowerGlove

Last year I decided to call this member a "Project", and I'll do it again this year. I'm talking about his contributions on improving the forum. He announced he's stepping down, so this is my last chance to nominate him as Best Project.
You've made it to #1 on my Sent Merit list again, which is quite an accomplishment with 294 well-deserved Merits.

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Discovery of the Year: stwenhao

Although not technically a Newbie, stwenhao made most of his contributions in 2025 and stood out this year. He thoroughly understands how Bitcoin works on a technical level.

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Help Buster: Ultegra134, nutildah, lovesmayfamilis

Since I hate AI chatbot diarrhea with a passion, I'm nominating these users for their contributions to the AI Spam Report Reference Thread. In order of appearance above, they've contributed 224, 222 and 164 posts to that topic.

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I'm only fluent in one local language, and that board is almost completely abandoned.

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Miss Bitcointalk: Foxpup

Year after year after year

I partially (largely) based this list on my votes from last year. Consistency doesn't change much

I made a Top 50 of my sent Merit in 2025, to help me find back the right users:

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     # Merit - userID - username
     1  294 - 3486361 - PowerGlove
     2  280 - 557798 - TryNinja
     3  265 - 317618 - nutildah
     4  258 - 1237156 - nc50lc
     5  242 - 3253914 - Cricktor
     6  163 - 1137579 - icopress
     7  162 - 2755792 - stwenhao
     8  140 - 359716 - ABCbits
     9  136 - 11425 - gmaxwell
    10  126 - 2739424 - NotATether
    11  116 - 995810 - hosemary
    12  114 - 112493 - Pmalek
    13  112 - 97582 - joker_josue
    14  108 - 1554927 - bitmover
    15  106 - 941526 - #BitcoinCore
    16  100 - 1285797 - GazetaBitcoin
    17  98 - 533583 - Lucius
    18  97 - 1410401 - dkbit98
    19  96 - 3540187 - apogio
    20  95 - 3373825 - paid2
    21  94 - 290195 - achow101
    22  90 - 1053119 - Halab
    23  82 - 85033 - d5000
    24  80 - 379147 - pooya87
    25  80 - 27470 - cygan
    26  78 - 2003859 - DireWolfM14
    27  72 - 2851928 - pbies
    28  70 - 3704391 - Satofan44
    29  70 - 314792 - examplens
    30  67 - 2836461 - Free
    31  66 - 84866 - ibminer
    32  59 - 971544 - Shishir99
    33  56 - 405464 - mocacinno
    34  56 - 1982152 - lovesmayfamilis
    35  55 - 35 - theymos
    36  54 - 998490 - AlcoHoDL
    37  54 - 2658890 - Rikafip
    38  52 - 60820 - DannyHamilton
    39  52 - 3440279 - OrangeFren
    40  52 - 1247226 - logfiles
    41  50 - 2307759 - TheArchaeologist
    42  47 - 2775483 - BlackHatCoiner
    43  46 - 991374 - Porfirii
    44  46 - 317557 - eXch
    45  46 - 1224889 - Becassine
    46  45 - 1852120 - fillippone
    47  44 - 3453140 - Meuserna
    48  44 - 209599 - somac.
    49  43 - 355846 - yahoo62278
    50  43 - 234771 - suchmoon

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Hero of Good: Satoshi, DdmrDdmr

Satoshi for obvious reasons, formal and informal leader. Ddmr because of the long lasting impression left in the forum. I'm sure that you are among the most missed members in the forum.

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Forum Ninja: theymos

He is also a Hero of Good, IMO, but for his consistency and because bitcointalk probably wouldn't exist without him, he's the greatest forum ninja.

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Bitcoin Geek: fillippone, BlackHatCoiner

Although I'm not very active in the most technical boards, these members are among the most respected and respectable for their great knowledge.

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Best Event: Naija board 2025/2026 cooking contest

This year I discovered this contest by Mia Chloe and I was really impressed about the high participation and how much love is put in it. In addition, I think that local contest also deserve a place in these awards.

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Best Project: TalkImg.com

The forum wouldn't look the same without this service, managed with love and passion.

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Discovery of the Year: katanic_97, M47AK16, Adiljutt156

These are among the newest volunteers in the AoBT who are doing really great. Keep up the good work!

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Help Buster: LoyceV, GazetaBitcoin, joker_josue

For their outstanding work to improve the forum in many different ways (analysis, articles, translations, projects...).

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Craft Master: Trofo, cryptofrka

They deserve the title for the exceptional management of the longest signature campaign I have been so far in this forum. Congratulations, and thank you once again.

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Local Hero: famososMuertos, Don Pedro Dinero, darxiaomi

I would mention some more but if I have to choose only three members these are the most active in the Spanish board, and without them it would be almost abandoned.

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Miss Bitcointalk: Womanderful

Although she's not active lately, she taught me a lot in my first years in the forum. I hope she comes back soon.