Bitcointalk is the oldest and biggest internet forum about the blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies as a whole. The website appeared in 2009 when bitcoin was worth just a fraction of a cent.

Originally Bitcointalk was created by Satoshi Nakamoto — the father of bitcoin, the man, or, perhaps, even a group of people whose identity has remained in the shadows ever since. Before Bitcointalk, Satoshi used SourceForge to discuss issues regarding bitcoin. Unfortunately, that forum is gone now. You can, however, still find Satoshi’s Bitcointalk profile — last seen online 13 December 2010 ( https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=3 )

One of the last posts by Satoshi before he finally disappeared was about WikiLeaks. Here’s what he said: “It would have been nice to get this attention in any other context. WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet’s nest, and the swarm is headed towards us.”

According to statistics, there are 2.58 million registered users on the forum who wrote over 51 million posts in total. Since the inception of Bitcointalk, the website has had a few billion pageviews.

An average of 500 new users sign up every day with men to women ratio sitting at 4:1.

Bitcointalk.org was built using SMF — an open source software pack.

Design and functionality have not really changed since its very first day.

The “Announcements (Altcoins)” subforum is one of the most popular on the whole website, followed by Bitcoin discussion and Altcoin discussion.



Announcements (Altcoins) has become especially popular in 2017 with the steady rise of ICOs and token generation events that happen every week. This week another thread appeared on that subforum — the official FinWhaleX project thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5165129.msg51821041#msg51821041



We will be glad to see you among our visitors on the Bitcointalk forum where you can share your opinions and feedback.