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Discussion => Off topic => Topic started by: 72289 on September 10, 2011, 02:28 pm

Title: Bitcoin Talk(.org)
Post by: 72289 on September 10, 2011, 02:28 pm
Does anyone know what happened to the official unofficial forums for Bitcoin? It won't pull up for me (says unable to connect) and yesterday they were hacked. Can't seem to find any info on it with a Google search and doesn't seem like anyone has said anything on here.

So, anyone have anything?

Thanks
Title: Re: Bitcoin Talk(.org)
Post by: Oracle of Delphi on September 10, 2011, 07:21 pm
That forum was being constantly attacked. It makes one wonder why these people would spend the time doing this, but the forums were so full of trolls, at some times I wondered if there were any serious posts (apart from the technical discussion subforum).

Having these types of forums is great for building a community. Not to mention the communication benefits - between consumers, developers, exchanges etc. But as we can see it is vulnerable to trolling, a very serious weapon. If you didn't notice it, the bitcoin project domain, bitcoin.org, took off the link to the forum since a couple of weeks back.