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Why do i need to have reputation before i can vote?
I see some real good answers on this site but I can't vote and I can't comment. How do i get reputation points the quickest?

This question would fit better in the meta.bitcoin.stackexchange.com area.

Wait what...? I thought this was about Bitcoin?!

Thank you for the notice! Actually, there is a flag for just this case: Below a post, you can click flag > Off-topic > "This belongs on a different site in the SE-network" > meta.bitcoin-se.com. You should already have enough reputation to use it, if I remember correctly. :)

@Jori, oh wow, I didn't even realize he said SO. :)

Thank you @Murch, I have not learned to do that yet and now you've taught me to fish :)

Glad to hear that. :)

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Thank you so much Murch. Thats very helpful. I feel bad for asking the question now. I should have looked in the help first. However its people like you that give positive help that all of us will learn the most from. Thank you!

Don't feel bad, we've all been there before. :)

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List of Altcoins
I propose that the community here try to keep a list of altcoins. There are a few on the web, but none of them are comprehensive. I read some where that there are over 90 altcoins, but any list I have seen has never listed more than 50. I think this is the best list currently available. This one is pretty good too.
The first consideration is how the list will be organized. I see two possible ways that are useful:

Organize by use and popularity
Organize by type, relative to Bitcoin

Number one is straight forward and easy to tell. There would be categories such as Large, medium, small, new and dead.
Number two is a little more in depth and I honestly don't have the knowledge about altcoins to even suggest categories, except that I understand Ripple is centrally controlled, where bitcoin is not, so that can be a category, and that Litecoin is "Script" not "SHA-256".
I see no reason, of course, to not make a hybrid of each organization style. I see no reason to not have categories of both, or even have the same list twice, but organized differently.
If we make the list, I suggest that we link to questions tagged for that coin, if they exist. We should also link to any official sites, if they exist. Wikipedia articles might be a good idea, again, if they exist.
Organization within categories can go any number of ways, but alphabetized is easiest and never changes and also avoids arguments.
So here is an example format:

Large
Litecoin (Tagged Questions) (Official site) (Wikipedia)
Namecoin (Tagged Questions) (Official site) (Wikipedia)
Centralized
Ripple (Tagged Questions) (Official site) (Wikipedia)

Now there's only one question left: Should this be on meta or the main site? I'm in favor of the main site simply because it will get more exposure. Community wiki avoids the rep problem and invites new users to add new coins we don't know about.
Any takers to get us started?

Ripple started out centralized but has made their server software open-source by now. While it is still less decentralized than most altcoins, I don't think that it really fits under a "centralized" caption.

I don't think it would be reasonable to keep an accurate list of altcoins, as there are many forks with the only difference being popularity of the coin. Maybe categories and along with it simple explanations and an example?

Although it would be possible to create such an altcoin list here on Bitcoin.SE, I think that it would be destined to become merely another incomplete list of some altcoins. Further, I think that it wouldn't serve the purpose for which it was created:

For people who come to ask, "I heard about FooCoin, where can I find more information about it?" such a list probably wouldn't help because they wouldn't have found the list anyway.
For people who ask questions like What are some of the different takes on proof of work, such a list could help answer the question but the answers would consist of little more than a link to the page with the info.

A proper wiki (eg. https://bitcoin.it) is probably a better place because Mediawiki has actual support for tables, with sorting and filtering. The current List of alternative cryptocurrencies page seems rather incomplete and out of date, and also doesn't use the Mediawiki table features. Certainly room for improvement there.
The current most canonical list appears to be this forum thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=134179.0 which as we all know is a terrible place to keep information. (Who would ever read all 67 pages of that thread?)

I saw a circular tree that showed all altcoins based on what were forked ("branched") from. You could mouse over each node to see the coin's parameters too, found it:
http://www.mapofcoins.com/

Absolutely amazing resource. If only the descriptions gave some sort of indication to how healthy the economy for a particular coin is.

@fredsbend is it the right answer

Since there is no way to create a table on Stackexchange I am afraid, that it would not be feasible to put a lot of different columns in it and keep it readable. We would have to select the most important information.
It might work as a community wiki question on the main site, however, it would need quite a bit of work to get it started and then also maintenance to keep it useful.
At least to start out, we should keep it constrained to altcoins that have questions tagged on this page as that should make it much more manageable.
I am not sure whether the wikipedia pages are really the most important information for crypto currencies. I'd propose to format in such a way:
SHA-256d based

Namecoin – namecoin – namecoin.info
Peercoin – ppcoin – peercoin.net
Mastercoin – mastercoin – Official Site

Scrypt based

Litecoin – litecoin – litecoin.org
Dogecoin – dogecoin – dogecoin.com

Other Hashing Algorithm

Quarkcoin – quarkcoin – Official Site – Multiple hashing algorithm
Maxcoin – maxcoin – maxcoin.co.uk – Keccak (SHA-3)
Primecoin...
Datacoin...

Other cryptocurrencies

Ripple – ripple – ripplelabs.com

No clue
Solidcoin, yacoin, zerocoin, vertcoin, Freicoin

Is there a single tag where this would work in a tag wiki?

We have an "altcoin"-tag that would lend itself to it. But aren't tag-wikis pretty much invisible unless you specifically search for them?

coinmarketcap has a frequently updated list of at the time of posting 138 coins, sortable by various factors

This is nice, but does not have the technical details about the coin, such as scrypt or SHA framework

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Is anyone planning on attending or speaking at the North American Bitcoin Conference in Chicago, 2014?
There is another Bitcoin conference event in Chicago this July. It looks like it is going to be a big event, and similar to how Murch asked if any community members were considering attending the conference in Amsterdam, I am asking if any are considering this one?
Personally, I want to go. I live only a short plane ride away.

On a related note, I may request that SE reimburse me for the conference, unless a more qualified member is willing to go through the process.

Looking back, Bitcoin2014 was well worth it for me, but I have no information how big this is going to be in comparison and I am afraid that for a couple of days a plane ticket to the US is not within my budget. Also, there is no student rebate. ;)

I read that the previous one in Miami had 1200 attendees, so it was probably about 1500 to 2000 once you add in faculty and exhibitors.

I live in Chicago and thought about going but there is no way I'm going to pay $275 to listen to people ramble on about Bitcoin for 2 days. Lollapalooza is 3 days long and is still cheaper. If you look thru their documentation they're asking for sponsors to pay 5 figure sums as well. God only knows where all this money is going, or why it is being held somewhere as large as the McCormick place when their previous event only had 1,200 people show up. If they have this many people show up, they'll take in about half a million, and im sure this could have been done for a lot less.

I record conferences for a living and the prices you mention are reasonable and within the range of what I have seen. I don't think you realize how expensive it is to put on a conference. $500K for 1200 with a full exhibit hall is only a little more than it costs to have the conference in the first place.

Also, Chicago is one of the more expensive cities.

I'm sure it isnt cheap to throw one, but take for instance the DEFCON conference, probably the largest hacking conference out there, in 2010 they had over 10k people attend. The cost for this year is $220 for 4 days, and I know there would be talks I would be interested in, without even looking at who is speaking about what. With the bitcoin conference they dont say what is actually going to be talked about, only who might be speaking, so god only knows if this would be a waste of my time and money or not. And the cost is still more than DEFCON for half the time.

I agree, the Bitcoin conferences seem to be lax in getting their schedules together in a timely fashion, but Murch enjoyed the Amsterdam conference a few weeks ago. The cost difference are likely related to the AV requirements and food being supplied. The Bitcoin conferences are going to feed you both days. Further, there are probably going to be quite a few concurrent sessions, like in Amsterdam, which adds significantly to the AV bill. All I mean to say is that they are not gouging. They are covering costs and making enough to cover overhead until the next conference and maybe a little more.

I dunno, personally I'd prefer to figure out my own lunch and the value just isnt there for me, but for others I can understand the appeal to not having to leave and being able to network over lunch. Anyways good luck trying to talk SE in to sponsoring you.


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Is the community here tolerant of polling questions?
I came across this question yesterday: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/25658/should-i-buy-place-on-altcoindesk-tk
I figured that it would be closed because it is a simple polling question about a specific site and their services. I know that SE discourages polling questions across the board and I tend to agree with their assessment.
I would vote to close that question myself as opinion based because it is, but what does the community at large want to do?

According to our community guidelines those questions are off-topic. I feel that it clearly falls into the "subjective" category. I routinely close such questions as off-topic under the "service recommendation" reason.
On a related note, perhaps we should update that explanation to include "service reviews".

"perhaps we should update that explanation to include 'service reviews.'" Yes, probably. Service reviews are fully opinion based. Using and having a specific close reason is even better; it shows that it has already been thought about and is not really open for discussion.


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The North American Bitcoin Conference, Chicago, 2014 - Sponsorship Proposal
I would like to attend The North American Bitcoin Conference, Chicago, 2014 and promote Stack Exchange and specifically Bitcoin.StackExchange.com and the community there.

Who - The North American Bitcoin Conference is one of the most attended Bitcoin events in the world and the upcoming Chicago conference will be the most attended Bitcoin event in America to date. Approximately 1500 attendees will gather to hear leaders and titan in the industry. Persons involved with Blockchain.info, Ripple Labs, Bitpay, Litecoin, Ethereum, and more are slotted to give lectures or sit on discussion panels.
What - The conference is The North American Bitcoin Conference.
When - The conference takes place on July 19th and 20th, 2014.
Where - The conference will be held at the McCormick Place South Building in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Why - I will commit to serve the community and Bitcoin.SE in the following ways:

The first immediate thing I can commit to is questions. I will surely have many, and quite a few will be right at home as a post here on Bitcoin.SE.
I can also commit to an added ability to make top notch answers. Great site content is always in demand.
I can also commit to getting answers from specific persons or lectures. If approved for sponsorship, I will make another meta post with the conference schedule and will attend sessions based on user input and attempt to get answers for any burning questions.
I will also write a summary and review of every lecture/panel I attend and post it to meta.
The community here would benefit from added expert users. This conference is going to be packed full of experts and I will do everything I can to make them users. I will pitch Bitcoin.StackExchange as the go to place for expert questions and answers to everyone I meet. In time, I too will become one of these experts and this conference is a great place to gain valuable knowledge that is unavailable elsewhere. In turn, that knowledge will be posted to Stack Exchange first. In my opinion, this is the most valuable thing the community can gain by supporting my sponsorship.

This post is formatted according to the suggestions to formally request for Stack Exchange sponsorship.

Get in touch with us with a link to this, and we can go from there. We do sometimes help really engaged members of communities attend events, and we'll give you a bunch of SE swag to give away while you're there.
The site could definitely use some users that are past the 'less than beginner' experience level asking questions, so if you think there'd be an opportunity to get some here, I'd be willing to push for getting you there to do it.
There may or may not be some tax matters to talk about, as well as other monetary details that are probably left best to email ;)

I have just submitted the information requested in the MSE post through the contact form. I eagerly await your response.

I have contacted SE, but have not received a reply. I know it is still early, but I just want to make sure they have received it.

@fredsbend That form is processed every week, so you should hear from us by Friday :)


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Aren't recommendation questions off-topic?
I've recently joined this site due to my growing interest in Bitcoins, as well as to fight the flood of spam that's been coming in.
In the meantime, I've been going through old questions, and came across these four:

Which notable Bitcoin-related sites offer referral rewards?
Where to earn bitcoins?
Where can I trade BTC/USD with a small transaction fee?
Where can I trade my altcoins?

I flagged all four as being off-topic for asking for recommendations, and all four were marked as "Helpful", but they all still exist, and have not been closed.
Aren't questions asking for recommendations verboten on Stack Exchange sites?  Or does this site have a more lax policy?  If so, is that such a good idea?

 So, is this thing on? Any moderators care to comment? Is there even anyone here?

i said it before but one mod hasnt been a round since jul 19 but has been on stack overflow yesterday. i made a post about it (http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/188815/whos-supposed-to-stop-spam-on-the-bitcoin-se-site)

@BitcoinFan - yeah, it's pretty disappointing that the moderators don't even check the Meta site... general users I could understand, but this?  I know moderators are people too, and they have their own personal lives to attend to, but two days and no answers from anyone?  Despite Area 51 showing 4000+ visits a day to this site, I'm getting the strong impression that those are all hits from spammers, and there's no one really here.

i want to find a site thats good and not bitcoin talk and i was happy to find this one, but, i see all the spam and peple that dont seem to care so i thought ill just stick ot bitcointalk. its too bad bc i love stack overflow to ask programing questions.

@BitcoinFan I've tried to answer this now, hope that it helps.

Yeah, I agree that questions asking for recommendations are usually off-topic.
In the Bitcoin world though there might just be one or two sites that do what you ask for and in that case I don't see it as asking for recommendations. I remember myself in the early days of the site asking for an online service that lets me sweep a private key. At that time I couldn't find such a site at all, so I'm not looking for people to rate different sites for me, I'm just trying to find any way to solve my problem. That's on topic in my opinion.
Regarding the questions above, I hope that the community can decide what to do without moderator intervention. Feel free to link to this meta question though so that more people join the discussion.

I'd say in the strictest letter of the sense, they are recommendations, because they're asking for a list of things.  They're also the kinds of questions that can most easily become out of date when new services/sites/applications becomes available.  As for letting the community decide, being an ex-moderator (Board and Card Games, which is still in Beta after almost three years), if you let the users do what they want, they won't close a thing.  But I appreciate the answer nonetheless.

Yes, it is a question about how strict we should be. We have tons of questions on this site that can easily become out of date and part of it has to do with the fact that the site is entirely about emerging technology. There is bound to be more such questions here than on e.g. Seasoned advice. I'm sure we haven't quite figured out where to draw the line yet so your input is very welcome.

Since unfortunately I don't think that there is a way to mark questions for more frequent review, we'll just have to do our best to update outdated information whenever we come across it. Since there aren't many comprehensive and encompassing resources yet we should not yet exclude information that might outdate. We could however do a better job consolidating duplicates.


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Nobody is participating in the review queues
I'll be blunt:  Why is the review queue completely stagnant?  Do people not take pride in this site?  Do people not like keeping it clean?  Do people not want to improve it?
I can't participate in any of the queues because I don't have enough reputation, but a quick review shows that there are currently:

72 reopen votes (0 reviewed today)
47 close votes (0 reviewed today)
20 first posts (3 reviewed today)
11 low-quality posts (0 reviewed today)
7 late answers (0 reviewed today)
0 suggested edits (3 reviewed today, all by a non-Bitcoin moderator)

I don't get it -- I've had close vote flags sitting in the queue since July 29th.  There are over 100 people on the site with enough reputation to participate in the review queue, so how about it?
Sorry for the confrontational tone, but when spam still sits around for hours at a time, and items sit in review queues for months, it's kind of frustrating.
(I don't even have enough rep to create a new review tag, otherwise I would have added it)

I'm 99% certain you're aware of this, but the reputation threshold for using the review queue was just increased to 350 on beta sites for first posts and late answers, which probably excluded at least a few active users of the queue.

@JohnBensin - yeah,  I saw that, which is really unfortunate.  There's still dozens upon dozens of people with enough reputation to handle the queue.  The fact that this question only has one upvote (presumably from you) and 12 views tells me plenty about the current state of user involvement here.

Hopefully as the site ages, more users will start using the tools, even though on a small site, it may not be necessary to use some of the review queues, e.g. it's easy enough to pick out first posts just using the activity tab. That doesn't apply to close votes, though. Off the top of my head, I don't know of any ways to encourage people to use the review queues, apart from badges (which don't seem to be enough at the moment). Maybe higher-rep users and mods will have more ideas.

I seems to me that Bitcoin.SE members got a bit overwhelmed by the amount of work that they were stuck with. Fact is that there are few active experts, but a disproportionate amount of dabblers that come to ask one question and zip away again. There is a very small middle-ground, the people that would help by raising flags and voting. When I rediscovered Bitcoin.SE for myself a few weeks ago, I had the impression that this SE had slowed down and fallen to disorder in some degree. I think that if a handful people restart it by putting a bit more effort into cleaning house, working through review queues, consolidating duplicates and voting this site could quickly would regain momentum.
It is somewhat of a self-sustaining cycle:

Good questions and answers hardly stand out of the flood of mediocre and localized questions¹
-> the page first confronts you with what looks like a mountain of work²
--> people aren't motivated to stick around³
---> there are few people that vote and sustain the quality
----> Good questions and answers hardly stand out...

Since I started coming here about a month ago, I have cast more than 400 votes, raised more than 50 flags, and done more than one hundred reviews. I am sure that I won't be able to keep up the pace (I have a lot more time currently than I usually would), but I'm hoping to help clean up, inspire others to do the same and perhaps initiate the breaking the aforementioned vicious cycle. By the way, I think it would also help, if there were more interesting questions. Most questions that currently crop up, are localized, duplicates or low hanging fruits – so if you have any, hit us!
¹ Currently, you get what, maybe one or two votes for a well-researched in depth answer? And most times the asker doesn't even bother to accept anything.
² Hundreds of unanswered questions, even more questions without an accepted answer, tons of duplicates
³ Nobody ever hangs out in the chat, praise for effort put in is scarce
So, let's just do this. :)

Oh snap: http://xkcd.com/810/

It seems to be even worse now.

@fedorqui: I beg to differ. We're currently somewhat overrun with First Posts, but tagging is much improved, other review queues are usually practically empty, and we have a few experts that participate in answering questions. What you see is a current run-up due to congestion on the network and peaking interest due to the recent price-rally.— Feel free to help out though, we sure could use more help.

First of all: I am sure you are doing a great job :) I suggested an edit to a post in the HNQ. I noticed there were no reviewers after a lot of hours, which I found strange compared to other [se] sites. Upon searching, I found this question as well as checked the numbers in the review page to see they were quite high for a small site. There is probably a need to have more active users in moderation-related issues. Area51 stats look ok, but sometimes they do not show the full picture, specially on users that are not active anymore.

@fedorqui: Thanks. Yeah, unfortunately, we're a pretty tiny site with lots of drive-by askers and a small number of regular contributors. I think I may be the only one that looks at the review queues every day. ;) In times like this price-rally (Bitcoin went from ~$1300 to ~$2700 in a few weeks, suddenly there is a lot more interest. I think we've done a lot to clean up the site since this post three and a half years ago, but the community of regulars is unfortunately still a similar size.

I saw a fresh, related discussion in Meta: Is there any way for “outsiders” to help a site with a full edit queue?. And me myself being mod in another small site I see it ver often to have mods being almost the only ones taking care of review queues. So yes, probably the key point here is on how to get those drive-by askers and answerers to return to the site. I don't have the formula, but I noticed that commenting and pinging them tends to work... sometimes. Success!

@fedorqui: It does work for people that are active on other sites, however a huge amount of our askers come directly from the web, many don't even have accounts. It seems to me that those tend to not return and especially not accept an answer. I think the way to retain a better community would be to actually reject more of those low-quality questions. That would make the frontpage more interesting to experts and confront them with less boring content. However, this obviously also creates a backlash in the wider community, and requires more presence and energy than I can bring to the table.

I'm kinda doing my best to clear the review queues every time I come here. But heh

Thank you for reviewing 20 Close Votes today; come back in 9 hours to continue reviewing.

So, that's all for today.
FYI. I don't come regularly because this site is not helpful to me. Very poor quality due to the lack of participation from experts. Less than 20% of questions are tagged properly, which makes it impossible to find duplicates. And as Murch said, “good questions and answers hardly stand out…”. This site clearly lacks a core group of active competent users that are motivated enough to improve the quality and clear the crap out.


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Is it okay to ask for money donations in an answer?
This answer has both a BTC and LTC address and asks for donations if the answer helped.
Is this acceptable? To me, this seems somewhat unprofessional; StackExchange is a professional Q&A service, and asking for money personally is... a little iffy.
Thoughts?

Soliciting users in that manner is absolutely not allowed. The content has been removed. If you see solicitations of any kind on this site, the post should be 'flagged' for moderator attention and the content removed.

Thanks for the clarification!

@Emracool That being said, unless I'm mistaken there's nothing agains putting a "tips" address in your profile.

@Lohoris you're correct, the guidance we were given by SE staff is that placing such an address in your profile is acceptable, but putting one in a post isn't. This is less about the fiscal aspects of such a thing and more about complying with the "no signatures" rule.


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localbitcoins Tag for LocalBitcoins.com
My suggestion is to create a tag called 'Localbitcoins' or 'Localbitcoins.com' for users with questions about the Local Bitcoins website. This could potentially conflict with the local tag, however I believe that the local tag could be broadened to cover all forms of buying bitcoins locally be it through a website or btc-otc etc.

I have added a localbitcoins, however most questions dealing explicitly with localbitcoins are not tagged, yet.

I'll start tagging those questions (well, suggesting that they be tagged)


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Is this an appropriate site to ask "applications of blockchain" questions?
I have a question about the feasibility of using blockchain technology in a specific domain, which has nothing to do with crypto currency. Is this the appropriate site to ask such a question? If not, does there exist a stack exchange site I could as it?

Private blockchains and related questions are on-topic on our site. Please take care to show your previous research and ask a specific question, though, as we do close questions that are overly broad.


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How many of you with addresses in your profiles have actually collected tips?
For many years now, it's been popular to post a crypto address for "tips" if you are participating in any online bitcoin community.
I've seen a few of the users here do it. I'm wondering if any of them have actually collected any tips.

This is basically a straw poll, so I figured meta would be okay.


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Clean up "Coinbase transaction" duplicates
I came across a recent question that was esentially "what is the coinbase transaction?"  I figured a duplicate question existed so I went searching. I found far more than just a few that could be a duplicate. Instead of submitting a close vote for all of them I think a moderator should do the corrections. Most or all of these should be marked as a duplicate of a canonical version of "what is the Coinbase transaction and what does it do?" There's a few in there that can serve well as that canonical question.

How does the bitcoin transaction fee get paid to miner(s)?
Where do the mined bitcoins go?
How does bitcoin reward who find the block?
Who issues the transaction of reward when a miner solves the block?
Is the reward for successfully mining a block a transaction on the bitcoin network?
How exactly do new bitcoins come into existence?
When creating a block, who actually generates the 25 bitcoins that act as a reward?
Transaction marked as "Newly generated coins" on Blockchain.info
How are bitcoins generated during mining?
How do miners receive transaction fees?
How does a miner collects the fees?
How does the network apply credit for created blocks?

These are just the questions tagged coinbase-transaction. There are probably more.
While you're there, several of the questions tagged coinbase-transaction are actually about coinbase.com transactions.  This misuse might be prevented if the coinbase.com tag was changed to coinbase-company. Or maybe the coinbase-transaction tag except needs to state clearly "do not use for questions about coinbase.com".

This could be a very nice cleanup. But IMO "how do the miners collect fees" should remain as a separate question to "how does bitcoin reward who finds the block", because to new users the block reward and transaction fees may seem quite unrelated and thus a weird thing to close as duplicate. The former type of question can include more information on how the transaction fees from each transaction are calculated per-block and validated, while the latter could include info on what data the coinbase transaction includes.
Edit: it appears What is the coinbase? may be a suitable question to link to
And please feel free to suggest edits to the questions which have the incorrect tags!

I see your point. There should probably be a divide there.


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When are altcoins offtopic and when not offtopic?

When should a question be considered offtopic related to altcoins? And are there any rules for answers that mention specific altcoins when it can be avoided or not mentioned in the question or considered controversial/unethical/scam?

Are the rules same for everyone including moderators?

If we are allowed to mention specific "altcoins" on "bitcoin" Stackexchange how do we decide which altcoins are good enough to be mentioned?

My questions are related to this: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/a/102275/

When should a question be considered offtopic related to altcoins? And are there any rules for answers that mention specific altcoins when it can be avoided or not mentioned in the question or considered controversial/unethical/scam?

The word "altcoin" is not outright banned (nor should it be) and questions and answers may mention altcoins if the question/answer is generic enough to be applicable to Bitcoin. Questions and answers are not removed for simply mentioning or discussing altcoins. They are only removed if they are only applicable to altcoins and not related to Bitcoin at all.
There are a few meta questions about this site's scope. The most relevant is probably the proposal to change the scope to just Bitcoin. You may be able to find better and more complete guidance through there and the linked discussions.

Are the rules same for everyone including moderators?

Yes. Are there any instances where you think that a moderator's question/answer was not deleted but a similar one from a normal user was?

If we are allowed to mention specific "altcoins" on "bitcoin" Stackexchange how do we decide which altcoins are good enough to be mentioned?

IMO any altcoins can be mentioned so long as it is relevant to the question and the question is also relevant to Bitcoin in some way.
For example, if there were a question about why Bitcoin doesn't implement a feature in that is present in altcoin X, I think it is perfectly reasonable to have such a question on this site and for altcoin X to be named in the question and answer. Such a question is relevant to Bitcoin and the altcoin is relevant to the question and answer.

In the proposal that you shared, your answer mentioned using altcoins when it's about a concept and not specific coin. I agree with that approach. 2. No I never had any issues with removal of question or answer related to altcoins. I wanted to make sure I know if it works same for everyone. I respect all mods for their contribution in bitcoin and stackexchange and would have replied or edited the answer itself if it was done by a new user. There have been few answers by new accounts to shill their altcoins.

Agree if a question has an altcoin mentioned and involves comparison with bitcoin, it should be mentioned. Also it's good to answer such questions many times to avoid confusion or debunk things spread by marketing teams of altcoins.

I have few things to add: A Imagine a newbie searches something about bitcoin on Google, gets few results from Bitcoin SE, reads few names of other altcoins in some answers by users with good reputation. Assumes things. Is this good or bad? B Vitalik is proud to make premines legitimate with his altcoin. Are we helping people like him unknowingly in some Q&A? C Bitcoin SE should help devs & users interested in Bitcoin and looks better than few others. Can we improve it and get more devs interested to build bitcoin projects?

D Some of the questions and answers from Bitcoin SE are used as reference on other platforms in lot of discussions.

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Should we ask Ravencoin questions on Bitcoin?
I'm proposing a new site for a cryptocurrency called Ravencoin, which is a slightly modified and more private version of Bitcoin. Because it's foundation is based off of the Bitcoin project, should questions on the Ravencoin system be asked on Bitcoin Stack Exchange, as it is very similar in terms of encryption, blockchains, halving processes, etc? Or, should I continue in creating a separate proposal for the Ravencoin cryptocurrency?
Proposal: Ravencoin

If someone wanted to ask a question that applied to Ravencoin the same way it applies to Bitcoin, it could be phrased so it is applicable to Bitcoin and would probably get an answer quickly. Questions specific only to other cryptocurrencies are off-topic and would get closed as such.

Ok. I'll keep the proposal, as there are some significant differences.

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FAQs related to Bitcoin mining and energy
Can we create a megathread kind of question in which answers cover all the FAQs related to bitcoin mining and energy?
Similar to link mentioned in https://bitcoin.meta.stackexchange.com/a/967/
Reason: I expect 2 genuine questions and 8 concern trolling in 10 questions related to mining and energy.


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Serial voting was reversed
I see this notification that 150 points were deducted and reversed because of the reasons mentioned in https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/help/serial-voting-reversed
I don't remember a single user voting randomly on my different answers in last month. Is it possible to get the details of this reversal?

No, unless someone told you themselves that they've been voting for you, there is no way to find out for a user who voted for them.

Hmm I was wondering if mods could see those details because the link I shared in question mentioned sometimes reversal can be manual and done by mods after investigation.


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Constant harassment and false accusations on bitcoin stackexchange

Accused of being a sockpuppet account created by Samourai: How does dumplings work?
Neither Wasabi nor NBitcoin support Signet. I created a transaction on signet that is detected as coinjoin by dumplings and  shared the steps to reproduce. This proves there can be false positives and its easy to create fake coinjoin that dumplings would count as coinjoin.

Accused of being sockpuppet again and some agenda in the comments Wasabi Wallet 2.0 coin control. How secure / private are sent coins now?
The question was about coin control in Wasabi and I shared all the details with a screenshot. There was a disclaimer added with link to the post written by zkSNACKs team as a newbie reading the answer should be aware of such red flags.

Is it okay to accuse random people on bitcoin stackexchange of something based on your feelings? Can I do the same everytime nopara73 writes something on bitcoin stackexchange?
I am not sure if bitcoin stackexchange requires KYC but I can prove my identity to one of the moderators if its kept conifdential, nopara73 can apologize publicly and stop writing false things about anons online.

Thanks for the heads-up. I responded to each of the three comments and communicated expectations for acceptable behavior. Please let us know if this happens again.

Thank you Murch


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Question closed without a valid reason
This question was closed by one of the moderators as offtopic although it isn't offtopic. Reason mentioned in the comment does not make sense because a summary with the question is always good to understand the concept or what exactly someone is looking for.
Research article about impact of BGP hijacking on bitcoin p2p network
There are lot of questions on bitcoin stackexchange that requested for research articles or papers: https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/search?q=research

What question is "this question"?

Sorry forgot to add the link. Added.

It was pointed out to the asker that the scope of the question was unclear via a comment per a custom close reason. The question was reopened after the asker addressed some of the feedback.