From Theymos’s user page on the Bitcoin Wiki:

I am head administrator of the Bitcoin Forum and /r/Bitcoin. I wrote Bitcoin Block Explorer, but I don’t run it anymore. I currently own the bitcoin.it domain name, but you should not contact me about wiki administration.

Contact me via email or forum PM. I am not reliably available elsewhere (especially not on IRC).

Moderator of /r/bitcoin and owner/webmaster of the BitcoinTalk forums.

Controversial to the Big-block political camp due to accusations of censorship. This includes removing all mention of the Bitcoin XT/Classic/Unlimited clients with the stance that “they are altcoins” and as such not relevant to /r/bitcoin.

From a comment by priestc on Bitco.in:

Theymos wrote the first block explorer. This is somewhat significant since those things have become a pretty integral part of the bitcoin ecosystem. Unfortunately he’ll be remembered in crypto-folklore as that guy who censored all the forums.

Another controversy relates to Bitcoin donations (over 6000BTC - which is currently 25,950,000 USD as of 28-Aug-2017) that were collected in order upgrade the BitcoinTalk forums. These improvements never materialised.

Links

• theymos on Reddit
• @theymos on Twitter (not very active)
• User:Theymos on the Bitcoin Wiki
• theymos.com - Personal Website
• 17-Jun-2013 BitcoinTalk - Where’s the new forum Theymos?
• 01-Oct-2015 Bitco.in Forums - Who is Theymos and what did he do?
• 11-May-2016 news.bitcoin.com - Theymos: “Bitcoins Belonging to Satoshi Should Be Destroyed” by Jean-Pierre Buntinx
• 14-Nov-2016 Medium.com - A (brief and incomplete) history of censorship in /r/Bitcoin by John Blocke
• 21-Dec-2016 Quora.com - Who is the reddit user theymos? answered by Meni Rosenfeld

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