IRC channels

Most of the following Bitcoin-related IRC channels are available on Freenode:

Please read: Bitcoin IRC Channel Guidelines before joining.

Bitcoin Project

ChannelDescription
IRC Web #bitcoinGeneral Bitcoin-related discussion and support. ( guidelines).
IRC Web #bitcoin-buildsDiscussion of the Bitcoin Core build system.
IRC Web #bitcoin-commitsReal-time notification of commits to Bitcoin projects.
IRC Web #bitcoin-core-devFor development of Bitcoin Core. Log sources; 1, 2
IRC Web #bitcoin-core-pr-reviewsWeekly PR review club for discussing Bitcoin Core Pull Requests.
IRC Web #bitcoin-devDead. Formerly for Bitcoin software development. (history. guidelines)
IRC Web #bitcoin-gamingBitcoin gamers hangout.
IRC Web #bitcoin-gentooGentoo community.
IRC Web #bitcoin-marketingMarketing and promotion of bitcoin
RSS News related to Bitcoin.
IRC Web #bitcoin-politicsDiscuss 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 @ IRCNetFinnish bitcoin community.
Croatian language bitcoin community.
ChannelDescription
Discussion and support specific to Avalon mining machine
Discussion and support related to mining.
Discussion and support specific to FPGA mining.
IRC Web #btcguildBTCGuild 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-bitcoinXKCD Pool
IRC Web #bitcoins.lc @ QuakenetBitcoins.lc Pool
P2Pool decentralized mining pool
BitMinter Mining Pool Community
KNCMiner ASIC Mining Hardware Vendor Discussion

Communities for Exchanges and Trading

ChannelDescription
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.
ChannelDescription
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-stackexchangeDiscussion complementing Bitcoin StackExchange.

See Also

  • Bitcoin_Wiki:Community_portal
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