Topic: Bitcointalk doesn't get enough recognition for its contribution to crypto - page 2. (Read 417 times)

I've met quite a lot of interesting people on Twitter that seem dedicated to building projects.  Not so much on reddit.  Twitter is a great place to discover projects of all kinds though.  You can search around long enough and find people with the same passion towards an idea that you may have and be exchanging instant messages in no time.  It's refreshing.  The platform isn't the best for working together with groups, but that's why things like Slack exist.  This forum has it's uses, but it's userbase of contributing members does appear to be shrinking and projects here that actually interact with the blockchain in some fashion are endangered on the way to extinct.

Reddit really is not a forum at least I think its more like a news sharing site where people can comment a small amount on their reaction instead of being a forum. The Bitcoin reddit community is not as in depth as Bitcointalk for sure and as a platform is very flawed because people can just create multiple accounts and upvote a certain agenda to get exposure. Bitcointalk at least does not have a broken upvote system.

Ah, NFTs are very overrated IMO.  I don't see the real value in them and certainly don't see why people have paid outrageous prices for them in the past.  And why would anyone in their right mind pay money for a collection of Satoshi's posts on bitcointalk when they could just create a compilation of them themselves?  It's not like they're some rare writings that have disappeared from the internet.

That is true, and it's still the best.  I think the only other competitor would be Reddit, and since they suck there's really no competition at all.  Even if you don't consider bitcointalk the "best" bitcoin forum, it would be hard to argue that it's not the most active one.  Sig campaigns and bounties continue to make that true, but it's true nevertheless.

And as far as recognition goes, I'm not so sure this forum doesn't get the recognition it deserves.  The one book I've read about the origin of bitcoin, Digital Gold by Nathaniel Popper, mentions it frequently in the beginning (and no, I haven't finished reading the book yet.  It's a slow process for me.).  I can't remember if the author mentioned the forum by name or not, but he clearly referenced it often.  In addition, just look at how many members we have.  There are millions of registered accounts, and while it might be true that a lot of them are bots or alts, the numbers have got to be quite high compared to other discussion forums that are focused on a single topic.

The NFT thingy with the with founders post Satoshi Nakamoto is a huge idea that could be exploit but then, it would be very wrong should just any user exploit this for personal benefit or even exploit it at all. It should be probably done by Theymos, that's if it should be done at all and it should be in a way that, some of the credit from its auction in percentage is always redirected to the forums treasury. It could be a thing, just as the cypher or crypto punks that meant virtually nothing transformed to mean something significant in NFT.

Well, the forum gets less recognition for sure. I virtually got all my crypto knowfrom here and yet, its a shame that, the forum isn't that much recognised.

People might try to take advantage of the NFT trend and do it. What for? Their own benefits. If they do this, it is not because of benefits of the forum, satoshi or Bitcoin, just for themselves.

Imagine such NFT like how scammers run Ponzi, scam projects and try to connect Bitcoin to their scam campaigns.

I guess it is what you believe but you probably did not have any data to make this conclusion.

I don't know if that's such a bad thing.  Since you're suggesting attracting more people to the forum; imagine if every one involved in cryptocurrency was an active user.  I doubt Bitcointalk.org could exist as a forum, and would have to take on the form of reddit or twitbook.  I'm not a fan of those platforms, which is why I'm here and thankful for the forum's existence.

Although I tend to agree with you that the forum doesn't get the credit and recognition it deserves.  Obviously it's the most significant repository of Bitcoin's history, so it does strike me as odd.  It's especially obvious during Pizza Day when many main stream media outlets discuss the first publicly-known real-world bitcoin transaction.  The forum is rarely mentioned by name in those reports, and many articles glance over it simply as a chat site.

    I think Bitcointalk forum doesn’t get nearly enough credit for its contribution to crypto adoption.
Firstly, Bitcointalk.org was created by Satoshi Nakamoto, the founder of Bitcoin. This factor alone gives the forum an edge over other communities. Research on the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto will forever be reference to the forum. Satoshi's last message is found on the forum and I believe that could be an Nft in the future as well as his other posts here. Yes I said it! I won't be surprised to find a compilation of Satoshi's threads being sold as nft.
     Also this was the first ever Bitcoin forum on the internet. If this was human history we would be the first men. The first transaction was done right here on the forum, Laszlo Hanyecz spent 10,000 BTC at Papa John’s pizza for the purchase of two pizzas. This transaction is more famous than the forum itself. May 22 became world Bitcoin pizza day, celebrated in crypto communities. On blogs and article they refer to the forum as "the bitcoin community", I suspect this is part reason why there the forum is not very popular.
     I’m not saying the forum is perfect and cannot be improved or anything but I think we  deserve a lot more credit for contribution to the crypto space. All this could be used to attract more users to the platform.