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Support => Feature requests => Topic started by: Cimicon-Rep on July 21, 2013, 04:35 am

Title: Create a separate section for Bitcoin discussion - newbie accessible
Post by: Cimicon-Rep on July 21, 2013, 04:35 am
With Bitcoins being the life blood of Silk Road, it would stand to reason that Bitcoin discussion should have its own discussion section instead of being lumped in with the Security section.

We could have guides, reviews, lists of places to obtain/sell BTC and discuss the latest issues concerning Bitcoins.

It should also be newbie accessible. Of course that means opening the section to those POS BTC scam spammers. But if there's enough guides, reviews, and lists of where to get BTC, those scam spammers would be wasting their time and less newbies would fall victim to their scams.

We've created a thread that has a list of the latest places to get Bitcoins from: http://dkn255hz262ypmii.onion/index.php?topic=185911.0

An admin or mod is free to copy the contents of the opening post to use as part of a sticky thread of this new section.  It's a community resource so it's really public domain. Attribution to the source is nice but not necessary.

Thanks for reading. Thanks in advance for implementing. ;)
Title: Re: Create a separate section for Bitcoin discussion - newbie accessible
Post by: Rastaman Vibration on July 21, 2013, 06:28 am
Yes, this is a great idea
Title: Re: Create a separate section for Bitcoin discussion - newbie accessible
Post by: White 0ut on July 21, 2013, 06:33 am
Also agree with this proposal!
Title: Re: Create a separate section for Bitcoin discussion - newbie accessible
Post by: hazed on July 22, 2013, 08:44 pm
Awesome idea!!! +1
Title: Re: Create a separate section for Bitcoin discussion - newbie accessible
Post by: White 0ut on July 22, 2013, 11:02 pm
Bump
Title: Re: Create a separate section for Bitcoin discussion - newbie accessible
Post by: GrimWaldo on July 25, 2013, 05:45 am
Great idea! Such a resource would not only benefit seasoned members by allowing them a place to share their knowledge of everything BitCoin, but it would give new members a place to better learn the how-to and pitfalls of everything BitCoin, allowing them to make safer and more informed decisions.

Had such a resource been available when I first found The Road, I could have probably saved myself a few days of intensive research and knowledge-gathering. Since I had never even heard of BitCoin before, I had to start at the beginning and work my way up.

Going from: "Once upon a time, there was a guy who called himself Satoshi Nakamoto..."
all the way to: "Well, fancy that. I have BitCoin in my Silk Road wallet."
should have, and could have, been a far less arduous process.