The world is in economic turmoil with various economies on the brink of failure. Alongside this, established and new crypto-currencies and digital banking methods are gaining in popularity and strength. One would expect Bitcoin Talk to be humming at the centre of this revolution. How can we stimulate informed discussions, and help BT to grow away from its current emphasis on the crypto underworld, and gain a place in the respectable financial world?
Hi, thanks for the post. I’ve been thinking about it lately because I’ve been a year in bitcointalk and at first it seemed to me more exciting, maybe because back then I did not know anything about bitcoin and this forum, and maybe because bitcoin was going up very fast.
When I had been some months in the forum already I started finding the meta section the most interesting one but nowadays you only see repeated threads: posts about the merit system, posts about possible improvements that don’t get implemented, posts about hacked accounts that don’t get recovered...
It is a complicated issue because changes depend on Theymos, and he likes to take things slowly. Also, because quality comes in hand with less traffic.
I was also thinking if we, as a community could do something. If bitcoin is going to change people’s lives in the future, something like the internet did, we could be doing something; we are the façade of bitcoin, but a dirty one.
The problem here is that we are in a boring phase. Lightning network has been being tested for a while, but it will take some time to be fully functional and, hopefully, to become widely used. We can see an economic crisis which can be like the 2008 one or worse, and in which bitcoin could play a key role, but it seems it will take some time until it comes. We expect bitcoin to surpass the December 2017 ath at some point as well, but it will also take some time. It can take months or years, so there is no excitement.
In the meantime, while we wait for those events, we could, and should, be cleaning the façade, so that when there is a new ath, when bitcoin becomes more widespread, when there is new (fiat) economic crisis, this will be the center of the resistance against the fiat power.
The main point here is that changes don’t need to be radical: @theymos if you read this please go one step further of what you have done. The merit system and the two serious boards have done something but it’s not enough, it is time to make something else. It doesn’t need to be radical but do something please. If that works, in six months more we can take another step.