IRC channels
Most of the following Bitcoin-related IRC channels are available on Freenode:
Please read: Bitcoin IRC Channel Guidelines before joining.
Bitcoin Project
| Channel | Description |
|---|---|
| IRC Web #bitcoin | General Bitcoin-related discussion and support. ( guidelines). |
| IRC Web #bitcoin-builds | Discussion of the Bitcoin Core build system. |
| IRC Web #bitcoin-commits | Real-time notification of commits to Bitcoin projects. |
| IRC Web #bitcoin-core-dev | For development of Bitcoin Core. Log sources; 1, 2 |
| IRC Web #bitcoin-core-pr-reviews | Weekly PR review club for discussing Bitcoin Core Pull Requests. |
| IRC Web #bitcoin-dev | Dead. Formerly for Bitcoin software development. (history. guidelines) |
| IRC Web #bitcoin-gaming | Bitcoin gamers hangout. |
| IRC Web #bitcoin-gentoo | Gentoo community. |
| IRC Web #bitcoin-marketing | Marketing and promotion of bitcoin |
| RSS News related to Bitcoin. | |
| IRC Web #bitcoin-politics | Discuss politics with other Bitcoin users. |
| ALL Discussion Remotely Related to Bitcoin Price or other offtopic goes here | |
| Streaming Bitcoin transactions, including market data. | |
| Bitcoin Wiki support | |
| Bitcoin experts and futurists (history) | |
| Lightning protocol development (history) | |
| Lightning only version of #bitcoin-commits | |
| Sidechains development |
Local communities
| European OTC trading marketplace. | |
| Russian OTC trading marketplace. | |
| United kingdom OTC Trading Marketplace.Founder Angus Bates. | |
| Aussie bitcoin community. | |
| Austin, TX bitcoin community. | |
| Brazilian bitcoin community. | |
| Canadian bitcoin community. | |
| Chinese bitcoin community. | |
| Danish bitcoin community. | |
| German bitcoin community. | |
| East Coast USA bitcoin community. | |
| Israeli bitcoin community. | |
| Dutch bitcoin community. | |
| Polish bitcoin community. | |
| Romanian bitcoin community. | |
| Venezuelan bitcoin community. | |
| Russian bitcoin community. | |
| #bitcoins.fi @ IRCNet | Finnish bitcoin community. |
| Croatian language bitcoin community. |
Mining Related Communities
| Channel | Description |
|---|---|
| Discussion and support specific to Avalon mining machine | |
| Discussion and support related to mining. | |
| Discussion and support specific to FPGA mining. | |
| IRC Web #btcguild | BTCGuild mining pool community |
| Butterfly Labs chat | |
| Discussion and support specific to CGMiner. | |
| Eligius mining pool community (also support for BFGMiner and Eloipool) | |
| Slush's mining pool community | |
| Ozco.in mining pool community | |
| IRC Web #xkcd-bitcoin | XKCD Pool |
| IRC Web #bitcoins.lc @ Quakenet | Bitcoins.lc Pool |
| P2Pool decentralized mining pool | |
| BitMinter Mining Pool Community | |
| KNCMiner ASIC Mining Hardware Vendor Discussion |
Communities for Exchanges and Trading
| Channel | Description |
|---|---|
| Discussion of securities and other asset investments. bitcoin-assets.com. | |
| Streaming assets market data (only), no chat. | |
| Live auctions over IRC. | |
| Streaming market data (only), no chat. | |
| Over-the-counter trading marketplace and discussion. (history) | |
| Third party escrow agents. | |
| Streaming market data form the #bitcoin-otc order book. | |
| Updates to ratings on the #bitcoin-otc Web of Trust. | |
| Only over-the-counter trading. | |
| Distributed Web of Trust (WoT) system for #bitcoin-otc. | |
| Russian community discussion about trades/exchanges. | |
| Coinbase chat | |
| Real-time tape (executed trades). | |
| LocalBitcoins.com exchange support | |
| Coinabul's customer support and news channel. Selling gold and silver for Bitcoin. |
Related Communities
| Channel | Description |
|---|---|
| Open Transactions project. | |
| Namecoin and the Dot-bit project. | |
| Twister, P2P microblogging discussion. | |
| JoinMarket, A CoinJoin implementation | |
| DarkWallet and libbitcoin/Obelisk discussion & development channel. | |
| Electrum, lightweight bitcoin client. | |
| Copay, lightweight bitcoin client. | |
| IRC Web #bitcoin-stackexchange | Discussion complementing Bitcoin StackExchange. |
See Also
- Bitcoin_Wiki:Community_portal
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