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What happened to the bitcoin talk forum?

847 sats \ 44 comments \ @stack_harder 15 Nov bitcoin

Why did the btc talk forum stop being the main hub for all things btc? i mean, i can see it's still alive and people are posting, but it seems the OGs left long ago and the action seems to now be on nostr

is this just because forums lost their popularity over a decade ago, a natural migration, or something else?

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132 sats \ 33 replies \ @DarthCoin 15 Nov

the action seems to now be on nostr

It is not. Nostr is only a sad copy of twatter, is not a place to have serious discussions. I was a member of Bitcointalk from 2012, but barely posting few things. The forum died after 2017.

I hope someday it will move to SN. SN is meant to be the replacement of Bitcointalk forum and r/Bitcoin. Once and for all.

100 sats \ 19 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 15 Nov

I hope someday it will move to SN. SN is meant to be the replacement of Bitcointalk forum and r/Bitcoin. Once and for all.

💯

I was on there the other day. There are some good threads and it's cool to read some of Satoshi's original posts but I hope we can migrate all of the quality content over here to SN. P2p eliminates all the low-value posts and I would much rather give/receive sats rather than merit.

121 sats \ 5 replies \ @028559d218 15 Nov

Nostr is, in my opinion, a dumpster fire of low-quality posts. By making it 'free to use' with no measurable friction... it's all low-effort low-quality posts that are worthless to read (in my opinion).

I don't need to see a picture of someone's breakfast tagged 'good morning' for the one-millionth time. If it were 100 sats to post (about 9 cents) would that person still have posted?

When nostr adopts pay-to-post (P2P) i'll go back and take it seriously once again

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @itsrealfake 15 Nov

run your pay to post relay

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @028559d218 15 Nov

wish i could

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Jon_Hodl 15 Nov

Nostr will be cool when we can all paywall each other and set a price for our time and attention.

Until then, it seems to be nothing more than a vacuous see of spam and low-value posts.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @028559d218 15 Nov

100% agree unfortunately. Bitcoin is the preservation of time and value over the internet... and Stacker News is a great example of both while remaining fun and engaging.

lfg

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 15 Nov

I don't need to see a picture of someone's breakfast tagged 'good morning' for the one-millionth time

100% this is it!

21 sats \ 12 replies \ @DarthCoin 15 Nov

Imagine if SN was available in 2010-2017 era...

0 sats \ 11 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 15 Nov

Jesus, that would be amazing. None of us would have ever been censored in r/bitcoin or constantly spammed on bitcoin twitter.

...and we would probably all be rich from zapping each other a million sats per post 😂

21 sats \ 10 replies \ @DarthCoin 15 Nov

zapping each other a million sats per post

are you fucking out of your mind? If I zap you now 10 sats ... this is generational wealth !

112 sats \ 8 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 15 Nov

Bro, I used to attend a meetup back in like 2015 where I spent like .1 BTC for a couple beers at each event.

I would be zapping a shitload if bitcoin was still like $250 per coin.

21 sats \ 7 replies \ @stack_harder OP 15 Nov

i sometimes wonder if in , say ten years, i will tell my kids about all the generational wealth zapping that went down on SN

15 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 15 Nov

This will absolutely happen.

To your future children,

I just zapped your parent 21 sats for a single comment.

Sincerely, Jon in 2024

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0 sats \ 5 replies \ @DarthCoin 15 Nov

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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 15 Nov

I like this citadel.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @028559d218 15 Nov

100% Stacker News is where it's at

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Fabs 15 Nov

We can shake hands on that one.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @DarthCoin 15 Nov

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fabs 15 Nov

❤️‍🔥🙂

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @Jon_Hodl 15 Nov

How do I not use this more as a meme template?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 15 Nov

The bigger folder of meme templates you have, more funny memes you will have.

SunTzu quote

0 sats \ 6 replies \ @stack_harder OP 15 Nov

where is 'the place' now? or is there currently no place?

42 sats \ 3 replies \ @ek 15 Nov

There’s a lot of deep technical discussion on Delving Bitcoin

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 15 Nov

Agreed. I get their weekly newsletter and its definitely full of high-value discussion.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 15 Nov

Yes that is a very good place to read latest ideas and developments going on. I like also https://bitcoinops.org/ is like a resume of Delving :)

202 sats \ 0 replies \ @bren 15 Nov

Also the Bitcoin Development Mailing list is here to view. Odd, but pragmatic, they chose Google. It was probably the easiest to setup.

https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev

41 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 15 Nov

unfortunately there's no place or is everywhere they can. The strong Bitcoin community that was before the "great fork" is not anymore so strong. is heavily divided.

Today we have these:

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Jon_Hodl 15 Nov

3 good ones.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Golu 16 Nov

Stacker News has replaced Bitcoin talk.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheMorningStar 16 Nov

Every good thing must come to an end. Bitcoin talk is still good for historical Bitcoin related contexts.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby 15 Nov

You are on it.

15 sats \ 4 replies \ @OriginalSize 15 Nov

Didn't it get hacked? That plus cycles I think led to lulls in which a new venue saw growth into each next bubble. Reddit I think carried the torch at least during the blocksize war.

0 sats \ 3 replies \ @stack_harder OP 15 Nov

i mean, in the earlier web days forums were the thing for sure, before reddit. i used to spend hours a day on a forum for Russian language learners in the early 2000s, made real friends there, including a legit best friend that i later ended up working with in Moscow.

i miss those days in a way and i miss the connection, maybe the rise of reddit killed the velocity.

sn does give early forum type vibes though which is probably why i gravitate to it

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @OriginalSize 15 Nov

I mostly appreciated the basic algorithm of reverse chronological plus last bump time on forums but also liked things more compartmentalized. That did make it easier to forget about one though if you didn't need to visit it enough.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @stack_harder OP 15 Nov

i remember a sort of compulsion to visit every day, then again, i also visit SN every day. still, one thing for sure is that reddit has a very douche vibe to it, always has, in most of the subs.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OriginalSize 15 Nov

The people still on reddit are the ones who will tolerate the platform being locked down API-wise and all the subs taken over by admins. It was good for a time. Now it seems I need to go to like five places to get an overall sense of what's going on and like the forum days I don't mind it.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Satoshi__Nakamoto 16 Nov

100k next

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Imyourfed 15 Nov

I've personally seen people of Bitcoinforum moving to Reddit.