Quote from: fennic on December 20, 2022, 02:35:31 PM

Today I was wondering that if I am correct than Bitcointalk was created in 2009, and mostly Satoshi was the owner and than he or his organization has been Ghosted and it's account is offline. So I was wondering that who pays Domain Name service fee per year. And it could not be free. And still how this website is running?

Regarding the Bitcointalk.rog ownership theymos clarified many times

2017:

Quote from: theymos on October 08, 2017, 08:37:14 PM

Wrong. bitcoin.org is ultimately controlled by Cobra, who was given it by Sirius, who was given it by Satoshi. The bitcointalk.org domain name is similarly controlled by Cobra, while I administrate the site.

2018:

Quote from: theymos on April 08, 2018, 09:41:45 PM

Bitcoin.org: - Cobra has ultimate control over the domain name. I have access to the domain name settings. - Cobra runs the server. - Will Binns holds the BTC. Bitcointalk.org: - Cobra has ultimate control over the domain name. I have access to the domain name settings. - I run the server. Cobra has no access to the database or server. - The BTC is held by myself and the treasurers. Cobra has no access. I am not Cobra. What would even be the point of that?

2019:

Quote from: theymos on April 09, 2019, 05:05:22 AM

It's surprising how well-documented history can become totally forgotten... Satoshi created the forum on Nov 22, 2009, and was head administrator until almost 2011. Then Sirius was head administrator until 2012, which is when I took over.

Cobra also owns the bitcointalk.org domain name. I consider the forum to be basically owned by or at least dedicated to the Bitcoin community, though; I don't call anyone an owner of the forum.

So regarding the question, who pays for the bitcointalk.org domain? Of course the owner and that means Cobra should be paying for the domain name.

Next question who's paying for the hosting, SSL and cloudflare etc then answer is theymos, since theymos is the ultimate administrator of the forum he should be paying all the expense and remember forum have enough funds in BTC to support the forum until 2140.

Just to give you an idea, not a single ~~bitcoin~~ satoshi has been spent from this stash of 1250 BTC since 2013 https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=155000.0 now imagine and be proud of how rich our forum is.

After 2140 Satoshi will take over everything.