I requesting to give me a
backup of the original forum which was available on
www.bitcoin.org/smf until theymos registered the domain bitcointalk.org in 2011.
Why do you need that backup?
Do you know about Wayback Machine?
https://web.archive.org/web/20110401000000*/bitcoin.org: January 31, 2009 and March 1, 2021.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110401000000*/bitcointalk.org: July 10, 2011 and February 28, 2021.
Satoshi Nakamoto never posted to BitcoinTalk the original forum where Satoshi Nakamoto posted is moved by cobrabitcoin and theymos to a new address.
Claiming that Satoshi Nakamoto "founded" bitcointalk.org is a lie and can be easily considered as a scam as well.
You did neither search nor did search enough
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At the request of Sirius, who owns bitcoin.org and the server this forum is hosted on, I have moved forum.bitcoin.org to bitcointalk.org. This is the final result of a long email discussion among many developers, exchange operators, etc. I have always been opposed to the move, but Sirius wanted to act according to consensus.
The forum was the only thing on bitcoin.org except for a few static pages, so I don't feel like we've lost too much by separating from it.
All of the old forum links should still be working correctly except
www.bitcoin.org links, which are out of my control. Additionally, I fixed some other URL-related issues. If you see any problems, contact me.
Because the old wiki is hosted on this server, its new location is
http://bitcointalk.org/wiki .
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I'm surprised that some veteran members don't know that the forum was founded by Satoshi.
Maybe he wouldn't want to post here nowadays, since the signal-to-noise ratio is too low. But he also wouldn't have liked posting on a forum with oppressive moderation, which would be necessary to make the forum something like how it was in the early days. I think that Satoshi just wouldn't have liked using any large forum.
Whether Satoshi would agree with current forum policies is another matter. You can agree that a policy is correct without necessarily liking the end result. The existing forum policies are pretty natural extensions of the policies under the administration of Satoshi and Sirius, intended to maximize freedom while still keeping the forum usable. Though if he disagreed, he'd probably say that there is too much freedom and not enough usability.
And while it may be interesting to speculate, Satoshi's approval is not required. You should do what is correct, as far as you can tell, not what you think some person (who is really just an abstract idea to most people rather than a real person) would want you to do.
Satoshi created both bitcoin.org and this forum, which was originally at
bitcoin.org/smf. Later, the forum got its own domain name, but due to this history, bitcoin.org and bitcointalk.org have traditionally been linked, and for quite some time Cøbra and I have together managed the domain names. However, Cøbra has never had much involvement in bitcointalk.org's operation, and I haven't involved myself in bitcoin.org for a couple of years, so the linkage between the two no longer really made made any sense. Therefore, we decided to separate the domains: I no longer have any access to the bitcoin.org domain name, and Cøbra no longer has any access to the bitcointalk.org domain name. The two sites should be viewed as totally separate, which
in practice they have been for years.
There will be no changes whatsoever on bitcointalk.org due to this, and I'd assume that the same will be true of bitcoin.org. The
bitcoin.org open-source project has been advancing steadily, and I hope and expect that it will continue to do so thanks to the efforts of its contributors.
Thanks to Cøbra for handling much of bitcointalk.org's domain-name-related work in the past.
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