Topic: @Active Members of Bitcointalk: Why have you created an Account here? - page 2. (Read 535 times)

It was never a choice between bitcointalk or some other platform. I first was introduced to Bitcointalk and at that time had never been on any other crypto platform, I instantly found it to be one of the most useful forums; the more time I spent active here the more usefulness I found for btt.
• It has improved my knowledge of bitcoin a lot. I came it with zero background knowledge and reading through the threads and replies of more experienced members, I was able to learn a thing or two.
• I have been able to network with Bitcoin enthusiasts from around the world.
• All of the rich Bitcoin history you find around (10,000BTC for 2 pizzas or the famous 'HODL' reference) originated here on the forum.

Along the line, I have discovered some more crypto platforms and actually registered on some of them. Some have been terrible, some better than the others, but no one has come close to btt for me.

When you create a pay per post contest with no rules or criteria, you get a spam fest.

Very realistic, each post will be rewarded weekly if the weekly quota is sufficient. The level of active discussion on BTT is higher than the other two forums mentioned by OP, BTT has lots of quality users who make lots of campaigns advertised here. A comparison of the forums mentioned by the OP with BTT will not find common ground, people prefer to be here because opportunities develop faster.

OP, once you've been accepted into the paid BTC signature campaign, you'll understand why you have to post regularly here.

I'm not surprised, people took advantage of their pay per post and to be honest I think the only reason they attracted people there is that you get paid when you post. also, if I remember correctly a lot of posts that were posted here are being posted there too since I remember some thread talking about the rampant plagiarism that was happening in cryptotalk.

yeah, they used to have a signature campaign here in the past but were shut down because of the spam the signature campaign generated(at least as far as I know). they tried to run a yobit signature again but it was blocked by a lot of members, but after some time they launched cryptotalk signature campaign which was fine with some of the members as long as the posts being made by the participants are being checked for spam and reported to the manager and then another issue arose when they try to sneakily update the signature that advertises yobit instead of cryptotalk.

Many have said it already that Cryptotalk was indeed connected to Yobit.

I can still remember the time where Yobit launched a signature campaign here, and correct me with this one, but I think they also launched a signature campaign with Cryptotalk here? Nevertheless, it's pretty obvious that people there are just posting for the rewards. Nothing more, nothing less. I visited their website a few minutes after I created this post, and last post that I saw there was around 11 hours ago in an ANN thread.

I created an account here just to try and experience what it is to be on that forum.
It didn't took me a day for me to leave that forum. Not only because of the fact that, the posts there were only one liners, but like you said, you criticize the coins, you will get bashed as well. I also don't want to read some wall of texts out there that's why I left that forum.

Well, at first, I didn't really want to have some discussions or share my opinions with other people, but as time goes by, I'm learning from them and at the same time, I'm sharing my opinions based on what I know, and that increases my knowledge into a particular topic.

Me being active in the forum is because of the fact that you learn here. Well, Youtube videos also helped me, but reading some of the opinions here really helped me a lot. I'm not a technical guy, but at least I know the basics. Also the fact that most of the reputable players that helped Bitcoin and crypto are here such as Satoshi, Hal, Sirius etc. etc. is one of my reasons as well.

How did I detected or know Bitcointalk? My friend introduced me, and from that on, I learn and learn and learn until I reach what I am today.

This is the only forum that discussed about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general when i joined and i was a miner, never joined the forums you mentioned as you get everything here.

All users on this forum have specific reasons joining this forum, such as adding insight, adding friends, marketing purposes and because the airdrop requires them to register for this forum. Apart from that Bitcointalk can also be a place to make money, most of the users who are here cannot be separated from the signature campaign on their profile.

It is undeniable, money is the main attraction for someone to join here. Of course there is reciprocity as well, companies related to Cryptocurrency will be assisted in promotions as a result of this forum having very active discussions. This forum is very coordinated, there are rules that users who have joined here cannot violate. Such as spamming, copying and pasting posts from other users or other sources from the internet and making posts off topic. All general rules are attached here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/unofficial-list-of-official-bitcointalkorg-rules-guidelines-faq-703657.
This is what differentiates Bitcointalk from other forums. In Cryptotalk and Altcoinstalks the discussion is less in-depth, this is a consideration for companies, so they are less interested in promoting their business there.

Interested discussing about forum between Bitcointalk, Altcointalk and Cryptotalk, I have been in third forum since joined bounties campaign and Cryptotalk only for promoting Yobit exchange market and there are have paid per post. I have been not longer exist with both forum between cryptotalk and altcointalk, exactly for Cryptotalk after new term or service update and many countries not allowed or banned there I have been quit about last three years.

Right now active with Bitcointalk forum only and seems more discussing than Cryptotalk and Altcointalk, there are have fewest topic and discussing every day but with Altcoin still received notification in my email and seems that forum still exist until right now.

I'm not interested in talking about the two forum you mentioned in the thread, but I wish I could provide bit of opinion on bitcointalk.

Despite all its the advantages, the bitcointalk forum is where Satoshi Nakamoto usually posts. He is the founder of bitcoin, so when you want to support bitcoin then of course you also support forums where lots of people are talking about it. This is a very short opinion, but I hope you get the big meaning out of it.

Check the post history: https://bitcointalksearch.org/user/satoshi-3


And this the first post by Satoshi:

I heard that there is a guy who invented Bitcoin and that he has his own forum that you can join and that one day he will appear on that forum and distribute even 1 million BTC to everyone who is not a spammer or shitposter

Cryptotalk were just launched probably to promote Yobit, a shady crypto exchange platform. All of those incentives from posting are withdrawn through that exchange. Additionally, they had promoted a lot from that time, including their investbox (I wonder if there are any legit traders who profited from this).

Enough from that, Bitcointalk is way too far from these two forums you mentioned. Quality topics, posts, management, users, & way more opportunities to trade cryptos, services, and goods.

Everything on Cryptotalk is wrong the template is not good the category is not well organized and worse it's being managed by Yobit a notorious scam exchange, they are good when they are starting out but eventually lose steam because they cannot keep up paying spammers, they have to stop their paid to post plan because of multi-accounting and too many spam posts.



Altcoinstalk is good and is considered the next forum after Bitcointalk but I guess the lack of incentives and campaigns on Alcoinstalks is the reason why there are not many posters.
I have accounts on these two forums but I cannot be active on Cryptotalk because they ban posts coming from my country and lack of time is the reason why I seldom post on Altcoinstalk.

Activity dropped suddenly, over a few weeks almost no activity was recorded anymore. I believe it was due to stopping incentivized posts but I don't know. I've never signed up at YoBit, so I also don't know how it worked to get incentivized. I didn't see any announcement, too.
I seemed to be very suspicious but Cryptotalk had a good design and was easy to make a post.



I saw it but I didn't know if it was still updated and I was not sure if normal people are eligible to have a sign up at Bitcointalk if we are not core coders.
I just signed up at different forums first and overally, my experience wasn't bad but after reading more on Bitcointalk, I later signed up here for reasons stated above in my OP.

No one is saying crytotalk is better. Bitcointalk is better, also in traffic. What OP is talking about is cryptotalk.org. They stop campaigning on this forum and have their own website that people can create an account and get paid for posting. But the forum was full of spam and many wrong information.

If you search about Bitcoin and find forum for Bitcoin discussions, I am sure with you a first search result would be Bitcointalk.org because it is a biggest forum for Bitcoin talk/ discussions.

Cryptotalk is a forum which was advertised on Bitcointalk years ago in 2018 or 2019 with support from Yobit team. That campaign initially was managed by Yobit team and caused massive spam on the forum. Later, Yobit account was banned here and Yobit (Cryptotalk) participants were banned a few weeks or months too (the more report against their spam posts, longer ban time). Later Cryptotalk campaign was managed by yahoo62278.

Long story, short note, by their campaign here, you can easily see what is a bigger forum between Bitcointalk and Cryptotalk.

List of banned participants in the Cryptotalk Campaign

Cryptotalk has connection with Yobit, a shady exchange. Probably Yobit is not seen more international traffic, probably most people using that exchange are from Russia. Also that English section is full of spammers, maybe the Russian board too, but I do not know. The reason would be from those two.

It was very disappointing. At some point, my topics got hit from meaningless spam. 

Yes, Bitcointalk is much more professional.

You are right, Altcoinstalks is similar to Bitcointalk's Altcoin section.
But here in Bitcointalk, it is much bigger, especially a good Beginners and Help.

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Wow, it's really a big topic.

You are right, Cryptotalk is not an independent forum and it seems to be run by Russian scammers (or at least shady people). International contributions on Cryptotalk have stopped almost completely but Russian replies are still very active, I don't know why.
I don't want to make prejudgement against Cryptotalk and I'm sorry if my claims are wrong but it really looks like it is run by shady people.

Take a look at this thread: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/interviews-with-bitcointalk-members-5262967, it'll definitely answer your questions as well as learn something gold from other people.

Cryptotalk was previously advertised here thru signature campaign which escalates the spamfest happening on that forum. Plus, as far as I know, I think it is related to Yobit? Yoshit?  
- https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/list-of-banned-participants-in-the-cryptotalk-campaign-5188200

The first that I knew was Cryptotalk, full of shit posts and they stop paying English posters. I joined this forum and this forum is better. I wanted to join Altcoinstalk but I saw it not different from the altcoin boards on this forum. I saw this forum through an online article and it was one of the happiest thing I have ever knew in my life.

Hello @everyone!

I'm very curious for your reasons, why you've signed up at Bitcointalk, created an Account here and are an active member of Bitcointalk by writing content regularly.

Previously, I have been active a little bit in Crypto forums to do my own research, share my research and ask questions but after a short time, I was a bit disappointed of most Crypto forum members because many replies haven't been useful at all.
Let me explain some examples:

Cryptotalk
Cryptotalk was a very active forum where many members made contributions but most of it has been spam, probably due to Cryptotalk incentivizing posts. Last year, posts stopped to be incentivized and suddenly, no one wrote posts anymore. I just wondered why my new topics didn’t get any replies anymore.
Cryptotalk is dead now.
Even when it was active, most replies were of very low quality. Very disappointing.

Altcoinstalks
Altcoinstalks is very different from Cryptotalk as it's an independent forum, similar like Bitcointalk. I have presented quite a few researches on Altcoinstalk, but discussions haven’t been very insightful but more insightful compared to Cryptotalk, of course. Biggest disadvantage from Altcoinstalks: Activity has been very low and for many topics only few replies have been left.
Very big issue of Altcoinstalk as well: it is focused on Altcoins and many useless Altcoins such like Tron or Ripple are shilled. Criticism of such coins is bashed.
Not a good showing to push such fraudulent coins.

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Quite contrary to Cryptotalk and Altcoinstalks, my research often led me to Bitcointalk on different topics, where I always found helpful information. Most likely, it is due to many coders being active here on Bitcointalk and as we know, coders have a fantastic knowledge about Bitcoin. But even more important is to explain it in an understandable way to normal people, similar to Andreas Antonopoulos, who’s a very experienced Computer Scientist and can explain complicated topics very well, to make it easier to understand for normal people like us.
I haven't created an Account on Bitcointalk until recently, because I was very busy but after reading more on Bitcointalk, I decided to sign up here.
Content is very insightful on Bitcointalk, where I have found comments made by Satoshi, historical content summarized by xtraelv and also topics from fillippone were very helpful for me.
I also want to emphasize our active coders on Bitcoin Technical Discussion explaining difficult content in an easy way for normal people.
I can say it's been a good decision to sign up on Bitcointalk and will continue to look up interesting content here, ask questions or share my research.


If you want to share your reasons,

- why your decision to be active here was in favor of Bitcointalk
or
- how you detected Bitcointalk,

feel free to explain here.
I’m looking forward for your responses. 



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