Bitcointalk

Bitcointalk
Type of site	Forum
Available in	Multilingual, primarily English
URL	Welcome post by Satoshi
Advertising	Banner ads
Launched	2009; 12 years ago

Bitcointalk is an Internet forum dedicated to the discussion of bitcoin, blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. The forum was initially created by Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonymous inventor of Bitcoin in November 2009.^{[citation needed]}

History[]

The first user on the forum was named "admin", and has an account registration date of November 17th, 2009. Satoshi Nakamoto created the Bitcointalk forum and posted the first public message in 2009 under the pseudonym "satoshi", an account which was registered on November 19th, 2009.^{[citation needed]}

Originally, the forum was hosted at "bitcoin.org", a domain registered prior to the release of Bitcoin's whitepaper.^[1]^[2]

The first bitcoin transaction took place at the forum, when software programmer Laszlo Hanyecz offered 10,000 bitcoins to purchase pizza, three days later a deal could be arranged to purchase two pizzas.^[3]^[4]

The commonly used cryptocurrency-trader meme "HODL" originated from a 2013 Bitcointalk forum post.^[5]

Topics[]

Initial coin offerings are sometimes announced at the forum.

A 2016 study by researchers from the University of New Mexico, and University of Tulsa, Oklahoma identified 1780 scams, based on forum reports.^[6] There is a demand for more privileges for older user accounts. Traded accounts were reportedly used to scam people.