I have already planned for it and created a channel. Here : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxUX4m1kFAlKHT2Tq_p5Bng



I always believed that a video can tech teach more than writing contents or learning from pictures.

I would appreciate a review on this topic if you have time: Courses [Video Tutorial 1.1.2 - Getting Started with Bitcoin Wallet]

This could be one of many ideas to present the contents.

Maybe not this. Only the posts made by nullius, achow101 and gmaxwell will end up there.

Why don't you also add the courses idea with this? A video course is much better than PPT or a document. It'd be easier to find people for this, but it'd be better for you to hire them offline/IRL,since you have a little issues with trust. Be careful though, you might have to spend a little more than what you might think,depending on what content the people make.

It won't,not until moderation becomes strict and tight. Spamming will only become more. There are downsides to his: More spamming, more work for mods, which would lead to more spending. You should focus more on the members who left this place(because they stasrted hating it). New members wouldn't get what bitcoin is for a while,and they would keep asking the same questions again and again.

Don't bother starting a youtube channel or anything would bring more population to bitcointalk,so long as things are bad here. If you start youtube, more things would become a "priority" then. First,try getting rid of current issues, this will only add up as a burden to you.

My thoughts exactly!

We'd have to get someone trusted enough to do it who isn't an eth enthusiast (they just push and push and push it onto you)...

I'd suggest leaving out speculation altogether. I think it would be interesting to offer a competition with a small prize to find content (maybe a weekly competition for 0.01 or something would be interesting - and just a fraction of the advertising earnings)...

I can offer to subtitle the video if that's helpful @Theymos (unless a script is actually used and can just be copied and pasted).

People search youtube to find something about joining bounty campaigns (and spamming the hell out of the forum, just to increase activity...)
There are already several youtubers who do this as a daily job, they make good money with it. They won't be happy to have an official youtube channel for the forum... I hope they won't downvote the official videos, just to make it harder for the competitor channel to start...
Of course, it would be an advantage for the new youtube channel that it's the official channel, so it would be more trustable, reliable, etc... But because it's an official channel, you should be really cautious with the content... Existing youtubers' videos are sometimes seems like a bit clickbait for me (although it works for them), but an official channel can't do that, so it have to be a bit less interesting and more technical/official/etc...
But why not to give it a try? We'll see...

That's the big challenge IMO.  It will take a lot more than 1 right individual.

I think it would be pretty awesome to have a BTCT channel but it would be a significant job for even 3-4 people to do a weekly vid.  I think fresh content is pretty important.

Covering such a wide topic as this forum is going to be a lot of work, a lot of "data" to manually sift through to get relevant topics to discuss.

How long of a video do you envision? 10 mins a week, 30, 60?
Are you thinking just like a news cast style or something more organic and fun?

I've been talking to a lot of crypto tubers recently and they are all hungry for work and set up to do this type of thing perhaps a weekly budget for someone already doing this might be a consideration?

On a side note would you consider a sub board somewhere for YouTuber discussion.  There are thousands of crypto tubers and a board where we could discuss our favourite YouTubers and their content would be cool.

To do something like that i would rather use vimeo. It's just a better and professional platform for everything that concern company and organizations.

They have also completely different kind of audiences, perhaps the right one for what you are trying to make

A YouTube channel would be nice and great for advert and Info from the Forum.

But that would bring a lot of work too for the people there are doing that , sure i guess there are a lot of Youtuber in the Forum here they would doing  that!

My personal opinion about it is a good idea, but I believe the other things in the forum might be more important
- Spam Bots Bot Accounts
- Registration for new users (possibly to do something against bots)
- Maybe more mods to support the current mods
- Recover hacked accounts if that's true

A clean, pleasant forum I think would help many users to feel comfortable!

But that is just my personal opinion

Maybe Theymos wants to keep the forum more libertarian and wild west anarchic than what a lot of people calling for, quite authoritarian action at times..

He just made a huge move with the merit system, which is done in quite a good distributed way in my opinion, and hasn't even taken full effect yet.
Maybe he doesn't want to hand people more ultimate authoritarian power over others, such as powerful mods to wield their banhammers at their discretion, like many are calling for..

Benjamin Franklin, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Yeah I copy and pasted that don't ban me..

Yeah their is a subset of members that hang out around meta, most with the best of intentions.. They all have the merits and DT trust and mod power and all the goodies..
They are trying to do good but not everyone completely believes in the same principles that they do, the ways of going about things..

It is pretty obvious to me that Theymos is trying to give the power to the community in a distributed manner through the trust system and now merit system.. It might not be perfect but nothing is perfect..


Theymos, being an OG crypto cypherpunk kind of guy, it occurs to me that he likely has some different ideals than those trying to find solutions to the problems via power and control..

Maybe dont include on youtube channel about making money here on bitcointalk this may lead to newbies get along here and make themselves as a spammers.

I agree with this, maybe this move is better than a youtube channel to clean the forum while its early.

I like this idea.  It feels like it would give the forum the opportunity to once again highlight useful information. The bonus being it wouldn't be drowned out by low quality useless information. ( More so than youtube already is)


Any news that follows this format is a benefit and a plus IMO.

More potential content:
Q &A's with members who are interested.(anonymity optional)
History lesson - collectibles, notable events.

My one question without being a judge in what is or is not a scam attempt. Would this channel be open to bitcoin safe practices, and how to avoid being scammed. This would fall under a newbie welcome of sorts and go beyond the typical "protect your private keys".