Over the past few years, there has been a big problem with censoring speech on cryptocurrency-related forums.
Excessive and stringent review, attracted users wailed zai dao. A separate forum, Bitcoincashtalk.org, launched this week, purporting to be a free version of Bitcointalk without censorship.
Source: Tai Tai Finance Author: AIYA
A group of technology developers launched the Bitcoincashtalk.org forum this week.
In an interview, they said crypto enthusiasts like to regularly discuss technology-related issues on social media and forums.
Almost every cryptocurrency has its own forum, but in the past few years, the two largest bitcoin forums (owned by the same person) have been plagued by complaints that users say their speech is being censored in a variety of ways and increasingly. For example, forums on bitcoin and portal Bitcointalk.org have seen thousands of users suspended, with only dissenting opinions about expanding the bitcoin network.
Thousands of Reddit and Bitcointalk.org users were also banned for “crossing the line.”
Such unduly harsh censorship makes one wonder who decides the line.
Just yesterday, a user responded to a Reddit thread asking “If I have a Lightning node with channels open, what is the recommended procedure for securely updating bitcoin nodes?” After that, he was silenced.
The moderator banned the user for “spreading rumors, lying, malicious propaganda, shills, fraud.” In response to this extreme bias and excessive censorship, many Bitcoin users have migrated to other forums.
Bitcoincashtalk.org, a new forum launched this week, hopes to provide a new forum for those who have moved. The forum was originally created to gather software developers, entrepreneurs and digital currency enthusiasts, as well as people around the world who are interested in blockchain technology and digital currency. Freedom of speech is a core value that Bitcoincashtalk.org claims, and any form of discussion is allowed as long as users respect the principle of non-aggression and the rules of the forum. 2. Are more forums for free speech better? Users who sign up for Bitcoincashtalk can converse about mining, project development, economics and information in the cryptocurrency market.
There is also a local forum area in different languages such as Spanish, Turkish, Russian, Japanese and Chinese.
Finally, similar to Bitcointalk, there is a sub-forum for discussions about alternative currencies and other types of blockchain-related projects. Bitcoincash supporters still like new sites like Bitcoincashtalk.
For example, more than 200,000 users use Reddit’s second most active bitcoin-related forum, called “BTC.” In addition, discussions about Bitcoin technology and other related cryptocurrency and blockchain solutions will not be reviewed in the Bitcoin.com forums.
In addition, many users use several forums at the same time to express their opinions in multiple ways. Bitcoincashtalk is just another avenue of discussion for supporters of Bitcoin technology, catering to a variety of topics. However, there are also many users think that the new forum, after all, just based on the unfamiliar forum published speech, and can not be fully believed, so choose to stay in the original forum. Most of these users watch other people’s discussions in the forum, and seldom participate in the comments themselves.
But most people willing to speak would like as many such forums as possible.