Most of the following Bitcoin-related IRC channels are available on Freenode:
Please read: Bitcoin IRC Channel Guidelines before joining.
Contents
Bitcoin Project
| Channel | Description |
| bitcoin | General Bitcoin-related discussion and support. ( guidelines). |
| bitcoin-dev | Bitcoin software development. (history. guidelines) |
| bitcoin-commits | Real-time notification of commits to Bitcoin projects. |
| bitcoin-core-dev | Bitcoin Core only version of bitcoin-commits. |
| bitcoin-gaming | Bitcoin gamers hangout. |
| bitcoin-gentoo | Gentoo community. |
| bitcoin-marketing | Marketing and promotion of bitcoin |
| bitcoin-news | RSS News related to Bitcoin. |
| bitcoin-politics | Discuss politics with other Bitcoin users. |
| bitcoin-pricetalk | ALL Discussion Remotely Related to Bitcoin Price or other offtopic goes here |
| bitcoin-watch | Streaming Bitcoin transactions, including market data. |
| bitcoin-wiki | BitcoinWiki support |
| bitcoin-wizards | Bitcoin experts and futurists (history) |
| lightning-dev | Lightning protocol development |
| lnd | Lightning only version of bitcoin-commits |
| sidechains-dev | Sidechains development |
Local communities
| bitcoin-otc-eu | European OTC trading marketplace. |
| bitcoin-otc-ru | Russian OTC trading marketplace. |
| bitcoin-otc-uk | United kingdom OTC Trading Marketplace.Founder Angus Bates. |
| bitcoin-aus | Aussie bitcoin community. |
| AustinBitcoin | Austin, TX bitcoin community. |
| bitcoin-bra | Brazilian bitcoin community. |
| bitcoin-cad | Canadian bitcoin community. |
| bitcoin-cn | Chinese bitcoin community. |
| bitcoin-dk | Danish bitcoin community. |
| bitcoin-de | German bitcoin community. |
| bitcoin-eastcoastusa | East Coast USA bitcoin community. |
| bitcoin-il | Israeli bitcoin community. |
| bitcoin-nl | Dutch bitcoin community. |
| bitcoin-pl | Polish bitcoin community. |
| bitcoin-romania | Romanian bitcoin community. |
| bitcoin-ve | Venezuelan bitcoin community. |
| btc.chat | Russian bitcoin community. |
| bitcoins.fi @ IRCNet | Finnish bitcoin community. |
| bitcoin-hr | Croatian language bitcoin community. |
Mining Related Communities
| Channel | Description |
| avalon | Discussion and support specific to Avalon mining machine |
| bitcoin-mining | Discussion and support related to mining. |
| bitcoin-fpga | Discussion and support specific to FPGA mining. |
| btcguild | BTC Guild mining pool community |
| butterflylabs | Butterfly Labs chat |
| cgminer | Discussion and support specific to CGMiner. |
| eligius | Eligius mining pool community (also support for BFGMiner and Eloipool) |
| mining.bitcoin.cz | Slush’s mining pool community |
| ozcoin | Ozco.in mining pool community |
| IRC Web | XKCD Pool |
| IRC Web | Bitcoins.lc Pool |
| p2pool | P2Pool decentralized mining pool |
| bitminter | BitMinter Mining Pool Community |
| kncminer | KnCMiner ASIC Mining Hardware Vendor Discussion |
| triplemining | Triplemining mining pool community |
Communities for Exchanges and Trading
| Channel | Description |
| bitcoin-assets | Discussion of securities and other asset investments. bitcoin-assets.com. |
| bitcoin-assets-trades | Streaming assets market data (only), no chat. |
| bitcoin-auction | Live auctions over IRC. |
| bitcoin-market | Streaming market data (only), no chat. |
| bitcoin-otc | Over-the-counter trading marketplace and discussion. (history) |
| bitcoin-escrow | Third party escrow agents. |
| bitcoin-otc-ticker | Streaming market data form the bitcoin-otc order book. |
| bitcoin-otc-ratings | Updates to ratings on the bitcoin-otc Web of Trust. |
| bitcoin-pit | Only over-the-counter trading. |
| bitcoin-wot|bitcoin-wot | Distributed Web of Trust (WoT) system for bitcoin-otc. |
| btc.chat.traders | Russian community discussion about trades/exchanges. |
| coinbase | Coinbase chat |
| bitcoin-rt | Real-time tape (executed trades). |
| localbitcoins-chat | Local Bitcoins exchange support |
| Coinabul | Coinabul‘s customer support and news channel. Selling gold and silver for Bitcoin. |
Related Communities
External links
See Also on BitcoinWiki
