= Bitcoin Forum
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= bitcointalk.org
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https://bitcointalk.org
Good article about its history: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BitcoinTalk
Founded by <Satoshi Nakamoto>, making it the earliest and one of the most important <Bitcoin> communities. TODO official in any way? Who founded it?
Instance of <#Simple Machines Forum>, an <open source>, <PHP>-based forum system.
Some notable appearances:
* in 2010, it is where <Laszlo's pizzas> offer was announced
* it was used e.g. on the <Mt. Gox> investigation: https://youtu.be/tJ-TsrK6SuY?t=2018
* Jimmy Zhong's investigation: https://youtu.be/pxvd1YOMGxU?t=1004