What is the Bitcointalk Forum?

Whether you're an experienced user or perhaps a newcomer Bitcoin user, odds are you have seen or have heard of Bitcointalk.org. In case you haven't, this report aims to provide readers with all the fundamentals also prime them with helpful knowledge before visiting. Part cause of this guide to exist isthey do not explain themselves really well.

The discussion dates back to 2010, if Satoshi himself seen it wrote some articles, and has witnessed a considerable increase in users and traffic since then. The forum functions as a means to keep an eye on the most recent news associated with cryptocurrencies as well as hosts a market to conduct transactions, transactions, and promotions.

BitcoinTalk is a message board in which individuals interested in the technical specifics along with the growth of Bitcoin applications can speak to one another. The discussion also has areas for those that want to know more about bitcoin mining, in trading with bitcoin, and at the economics of Bitcoin. 

The domain name is owned by Sirius (Sirius, a.k.a. Martti Malmi, was the second Bitcoin developer after Satoshi and the founder of the Bitcoin Forum. He's not an active developer anymore, but continues to manage the domain names bitcointalk.org and bitcoin.org.). The forum is administrated by theymos. 

Before the invention of the recent BitcoinTalk Forum, Satoshi employed a SourceForge forum, which can be missing. After Sirius provided hosting, the discussion has been transferred to bitcoin.org/smf. Satoshi made many custom modifications to the discussion applications and subject. Satoshi's initial non-test article on the discussion was:

"I left the admin account set to the original SMF theme so if I somehow completely wedge the custom theme I can still get in to fix it. I've got a neat little 12x12 coin image to replace those pip stars with. Should look nice. Also some nice button images to try. The registration page has "hide your e-mail address" unchecked by default. I must fix that in php before we can open up. The Announcements forum is currently moderator access only"

The forum was at some purpose rapt to forum.bitcoin.org. The bitcoin.org name was additionally transferred from Satoshi to Sirius.

In July, 2011 the forum was moved to bitcointalk.org in order to make it explicitly unofficial. The "forum" link on the bitcoin.org homepage was created to easily come the Google search results for the search terms "bitcoin forums". This was followed by Bitcoin Community members, very much in bitcoin's spirit of decentralisation, creating a number of alternative forums offering different moderatorial policies and using different software platforms. None of those different forums have nevertheless reached the dimensions of Bitcoin speak.

Later, the "forum" link was simply removed, further distancing Bitcoin Talk from the official bitcoin.org. As of April 21, 2012, Bitcoin Talk remains the first search result on Google thanks to its high page rank. On July 22, 2012, Bitcoin Talk reached its one-millionth post.

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