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Re: Who hosts Bitcoin Talk?
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vit05
on 21/06/2018, 05:31:12 UTC
Bitcoin Talk was founded by Satoshi but he stopped posting after December 13, 2010.
Yuph, he's/she's/they're pretty busy right now for sure, doing some stuff to improve bitcoin? No one really knows what Satoshi's doing.
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Theymos is the owner now but who hosts Bitcoin Talk? Does Satoshi still run the hosting or does Theymos host it? If Theymos doesn't does he still have access to the server?
I think it's Sir theymos who hosts Bitcointalk. And yes, theymos has access to server.
Why do you ask anyway?

The reason I ask because I am just curious. I was wondering if maybe Satoshi was still working on bitcoin talk and hosting it and stuff but was silent while doing so.

I understand now though.

Theymos pay the bills. He receives money from the ads on the forum and from donations. Cyrus is the responsible for the domain name and is also an admin. The other administrators are grue, hilariousandco, mprep, rickbig41,Saltspitoon,  

The forum sells ad space in the area beneath the first post of every topic page. This income is used primarily to cover hosting costs and to pay moderators for their work (there are many moderators, so each moderator gets only a small amount -- moderators should be seen as volunteers, not employees). Any leftover amount is typically either saved for future expenses or otherwise reinvested into the forum or the ecosystem.

Nobody knows what Satoshi is doing right now. And this is great =)