theymos
theymos became the long-running chief moderator of BitcoinTalk, the forum that grew out of Satoshi's 2009 bitcoin. org board. Satoshi replied in threads where theymos was already active in early 2010, which is why he appears in this archive as more than a later administrator. In the years after Satoshi left, theymos's moderation decisions shaped who could speak on the largest English-language Bitcoin forum.
During the block size war those decisions made him a controversial governance figure as much as a forum admin: sticky threads, bans and board structure became political tools in a fight that also ran through mailing lists, GitHub and social media. Supporters saw continuity, anti-spam discipline and resistance to takeover. Critics saw gatekeeping and a thumb on the scale. Forum power became part of Bitcoin's political history whether anyone planned that or not.
This page records the Satoshi-era overlap and the later prominence. The archive of Satoshi posts does not settle those later fights; it only shows that theymos was already inside the room while Satoshi was still posting. That continuity from Satoshi-era threads into later governance fights is why his name still matters on this page. That later public record is why the name still draws readers to this archive page.
Did Satoshi Nakamoto talk to theymos?
Yes. This archive has 7 forum posts that quote or address them from Satoshi involving theymos, dated from 14 February 2010 to 1 December 2010.
No published emails · 7 replies · 19 posts immediately after them in a thread · mentioned in 4 · 14 February 2010 to 1 December 2010
Sources
In this archive (30)
- Forum or list reply · BitcoinTalk
Re: What's with this odd generation?
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: What's with this odd generation?
- Forum or list reply · BitcoinTalk
Re: Command Line and JSON-RPC
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Command Line and JSON-RPC
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Command Line and JSON-RPC
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Tracing a coin's lineage
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Dealing with SHA-256 Collisions
- Forum or list reply · BitcoinTalk
Re: What is the incentive to collect transactions?
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Proof-of-work difficulty increasing
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: resource hog
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Hash/sec Throttling for Democracy
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: a simple traffic load test run
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: a simple traffic load test run
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: wiki registration email?
- Mentioned · Private email (Martti Malmi)
Re: \[Fwd: Forum e-mail notifications and PBL blacklist and wiki registration\]
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: 0.3.10.1 Question on where block should be
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Development of alert system
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Always pay transaction fee?
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Version 0.3.12
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Won't let me send coins because it requires a transaction fee?
- Mentioned · BitcoinTalk
Re: I broke my wallet, sends never confirm now.
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Prioritized transactions, and tx fees
- Forum or list reply · BitcoinTalk
Re: Version 0.3.13, please upgrade
- Forum or list reply · BitcoinTalk
Re: [PATCH] increase block size limit
- Forum or list reply · BitcoinTalk
Re: How to overthrow the GPU Oligarchs
- Mentioned · BitcoinTalk
Re: I broke my wallet, sends never confirm now.
- Forum or list reply · BitcoinTalk
Re: ERROR - PLEASE HELP ME!
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: ERROR - PLEASE HELP ME!
- Posted next in the thread · BitcoinTalk
Re: Need OP_BLOCKNUMBER to allow "time" limited transactions
- Mentioned · Private email (Martti Malmi)
\[Fwd: Bitcoin.org is down\]
