The forum, originally a part of bitcoin.org, was created by Satoshi and Sirius in 2009, Bitcoin’s infancy.

In the first few years, the Bitcoin community was both incredibly small and concentrated almost entirely to this forum; by the end of 2010, there were only 995 users with any posts, and this was the Bitcoin ecosystem.

Over the course of 10 years, Bitcoin exploded, altcoins appeared, the community expanded beyond just this forum to a large degree. But Bitcointalk still operated with much the same philosophy as first admins Satoshi and Sirius 10 years ago: create a “territory of freedom”, and let humanity happen.

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