Related to the people using and supporting the Bitcoin Network.
Related to the people using and supporting the Bitcoin Network. Be it related to the basic client, StackExchange, forums, chatrooms or any other Bitcoin-related endeavour.
Questions tagged [community]
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What methods could a government use to shutdown Bitcoin?
Let's say that a government decided to shut down the Bitcoin network. What options would they have to achieve this? Would they need to convince other governments? All governments?
Let's set as a precondition that they were able to scare away all the…
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Who runs www.bitcoin.org?
The original client that can be downloaded from www.bitcoin.org is often referred to as the "official client". Similarly many regard www.bitcoin.org as the "official homepage" of the project. So, who runs it? Is it the core developers? Some Bitcoin…
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What happens if Gavin and the other developers get hit by a truck?
I know this is an open-source project, but what happens if the core contributors are gone? How will the community decide the future of the client?
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How big is the bitcoin community 1st of Feb. 2012?
I really do not know what kind of metrics are available for measuring the size of the Bitcoin community, but I am interested in any metrics indicating how many users of Bitcoins that there are. Some example metrics could be:
Number of registered…
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Does Blockstream have a revenue model that can only exist in a small block environment?
Anyone reading discussions in the Bitcoin scene these days probably has seen the following argument (or similar):
"Blockstream is preventing a blocksize increase because their products can only turn profit in a small block environment."
What…
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Where should one suggest new terminology?
What is the proper place to suggest Bitcoin-related terminology that one believes should be used by the community? For example, when one wants to standardise some terms people use to describe different things, or coin a new term to describe…
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Bitcoin price speculation resources
Where could I discuss Bitcoin price speculation, and calculating fair spot and future price.
In general for stackexchange sites, the factors for here and now would be "too localized" I think.
So I will try to broaden it. Bitcoin price - being a…
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Is it possible that bitcoin community along with core developers introduce new bitcoins into the system for the good cause?
I want to create a imaginary scenario here to clarify my question.
Let's say, a bitcoin community is thriving at Cuba. Somehow few thousand Cubians manage to relocate at the remote location at Cuba and name the place Cubian bitcoin community city.…
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Are there any bitcoin communities for women?
Not to knock the guys, but it would be nice to talk to girls about this awesome virtual currency...partly to bring awareness to enable widespread adoption of bitcoin, as well as to try to get involved with other girls who may be working on…
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When did Bitcoin's "To The Moon" meme begin?
When did Bitcoin's "To The Moon" meme begin, and where did it originate?
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Who specified the Bitcoin protocol?
I went through the original paper by Satoshi, which outlines the Bitcoin protocol. However, the paper is a high level overview of Bitcoin, and does not specify important parts of the protocol.
Who specified the details of the Bitcoin protocol?…
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Authoritative list of Bitcoin resources?
Has any website compiled a reasonably authoritative and trustworthy list of Bitcoin resources? I'm building an appendix for my course and I'd like to see if I missed…
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How come a company partners with Bitcoin?
I was checking out the Bitcoin website, and I've noticed something that I can't stomach :
The Bitcoin network is growing at an impressive rate and Bitcoin.com
is forming new and lasting partnerships within the industry. Here
are some companies…
CryptoBird
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Who takes the decisions of "hard-forks" in the Bitcoin community?
I understand that there is no central authority on Bitcoin, but I can't understand who takes decisions on "forking" the blockchain.
Here it was mentioned that the "Bitcoin community voted"—how did that happen? Who is the community? I assume anyone?…
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Which crypto currencies have their own stack exchange site?
I believe a coin has a solid community backing if they have their own stack exchange site. Which other crypto currencies aside from Bitcoin has their own stack exchange?
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