BITCOINTALK

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BitcoinTalk is "one of the largest and, most importantly, international forums where you can find absolutely all the information about Bitcoins." "Bitcointalk.org is the largest and probably the most famous forum related to the Bitcoin world." "Here you can safely communicate with miners from different parts of the world, read about the most favorable offers from cranes or cloud mining sites, learn the principles of doubling and choose the most reliable services, communicate in "non-stop"mode."

"BitcoinTalk is a message board where people interested in the technical details and the development of Bitcoin software can talk to each other. The forum also has places for people who are interested in bitcoin mining, in trading with bitcoin, and in the economics of Bitcoin."

"Before the creation of the current BitcoinTalk Forum, Satoshi used a SourceForge forum, which is lost. When Sirius provided hosting, the forum was moved to bitcoin.org/smf. Satoshi made several custom modifications to the forum software and theme."

"In July, 2011 the forum was moved to bitcointalk.org in order to make it explicitly unofficial. The "forum" link on the bitcoin.org homepage was made to simply return the Google search results for the search terms "bitcoin forums". This was followed by Bitcoin Community members, very much in bitcoin's spirit of decentralisation, creating a number of alternative forums offering different moderatorial policies and using different software platforms. None of these alternative forums have yet reached the size of Bitcoin Talk." "On July 22, 2012, Bitcoin Talk reached its one millionth post."

"Apparently Hacked by "The Hole Seekers"

A flash animation plays when you visit.. Wonder if any payload was malicious payload was delivered, or if user data was compromised? Site appears to be down now."

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The popular BitcoinTalk forum was hacked in October 2013, with visitors being greeted by a dramatic animation featuring magicians, rockets, and a podcast with a bitcoin song. While there was significant speculation about the extent of the damage, it appears that there was limited impact. While administrator Theymos had expressed concerns user data may have been compromised, there is no evidence to support that. Analysis of the injected JavaScript was unable to find any malicious payload. The forums were restored and continued operating a few days later.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1nmdq4/bitcointalk_hacked/ (May 15)
BitcoinTalk forum hacked by 'The Hole Seekers' - CoinDesk (May 15)
9f98e7eb3289c21fbcbc05c26a865a34.png (May 15)
Bitcointalk.org Hacked Message October 2013 - YouTube (May 15)
BitcoinTalk has been hacked - CryptoLife (May 15)
BitcoinTalk Forums Hacked by the Hole Seekers - buttcoin.org mirror video screen capture - YouTube (May 15)
https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1nmdq4/bitcointalk_hacked/ccjyjti/ (May 15)
@bitcointalk Twitter (May 15)

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