r/Bitcoin vs r/BitcoinBeginners
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Bitcoin room vs Bitcoin beginners room
r/Bitcoin’s public description presents Bitcoin as decentralized internet money without a central issuer. r/BitcoinBeginners is for new users’ Bitcoin questions and warns not to respond to stranger DMs.
In our directory, Bitcoin is larger (about 8.2M, rank #95) than BitcoinBeginners (about 1.2M, rank #859). Activity samples show Bitcoin posting more often (~65 posts/day vs ~4.7). Bitcoin’s sample is mix of text with image; BitcoinBeginners’s is mostly text. Bitcoin sample flairs include low quality, off topic, repetitive, bitcoinmarkets, duplicate. Our directory lists BitcoinBeginners among Bitcoin’s related communities. SubMouse already compares CryptoCurrency with Bitcoin.
Rule titles: Bitcoin bans altcoin promo, trading, begging and faucets; BitcoinBeginners limits posts to Bitcoin questions and bans altcoin shilling, blog ads and affiliate links.
- Choose r/Bitcoin for ongoing Bitcoin news and discussion under its no-altcoin and no-trading rules.
- Choose r/BitcoinBeginners for newbie questions under its Bitcoin-only and anti-affiliate rules.
- Bitcoin is far larger and more active. cryptocurrency-vs-bitcoin is a separate curated page.
Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.
r/Bitcoin
Bitcoin - The Currency of the Internet
Bitcoin is the currency of the Internet: a distributed, worldwide, decentralized digital money. Unlike traditional currencies such as dollars, bitcoins are issued and managed without any central authority whatsoever: th…
- Members
- 8.2M
- 7-day growth
- +3.1K
- Posts/day
- 65.2
- Directory rank
- #95
- Created
- Sep 9, 2010
- Submissions
- Text or links
Sample mix: text posts 55%, images 26%, links 9%
Topics: Cryptocurrency
Rule titles (short names we collected)
- No malicious content
- No trolling
- Do not promote altcoins
- The primary topic is Bitcoin
- Avoid repetition
- No begging
- No trading
- No faucets
- No URL shorteners or referrals
- Do not promote contentious hard forks
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r/BitcoinBeginners
Bitcoin for Beginners
Bitcoin Beginners is a subreddit for new users to ask Bitcoin related questions. *Do not respond to strangers direct messaging you, as over 99% of these people are Scammers.*
- Members
- 1.2M
- 7-day growth
- +359
- Posts/day
- 4.7
- Directory rank
- #859
- Created
- Mar 6, 2013
- Submissions
- Text posts
Sample mix: text posts 100%
Topics: Cryptocurrency
Rule titles (short names we collected)
- Bitcoin questions only
- No promoting altcoins, tokens, ICOs. No shilling. No concern trolling
- No advertising new websites, news, blog, articles
- No affiliate links
- Do no use URL shorteners (spammers use them)
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Supported differences
| Aspect | r/Bitcoin | r/BitcoinBeginners |
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| Public focus (from each community’s public description) |
Bitcoin is the currency of the Internet: a distributed, worldwide, decentralized digital money. Unlike traditional currencies such as dollars, bitcoins are issued and managed without any central authority whatsoever: th… |
Bitcoin Beginners is a subreddit for new users to ask Bitcoin related questions. *Do not respond to strangers direct messaging you, as over 99% of these people are Scammers.* |
| Size r/Bitcoin is larger in our directory (about 6.7×). |
8.2M members |
1.2M members |
| Posting activity (our sample) |
65.2/day |
4.7/day |
| Common post types in our sample |
text posts 55%, images 26%, links 9% |
text posts 100% |
| Allowed submission type (meta) |
Text or links |
Text posts |
| Selected rule titles (short names we collected) |
No malicious content; No trolling; Do not promote altcoins; The primary topic is Bitcoin; Avoid repetition |
Bitcoin questions only; No promoting altcoins, tokens, ICOs. No shilling. No concern trolling; No advertising new websites, news, blog, articles; No affiliate links; Do no use URL shorteners (spammers use them) |
What they share
- Shared SubMouse topics: Cryptocurrency
- Our directory lists each of these communities on the other’s related list.
Rules and posting patterns we can verify
Bitcoin short titles include: No malicious content; No trolling; Do not promote altcoins; The primary topic is Bitcoin; Avoid repetition; No begging; No trading; No faucets. Our sample mixes text and images.
BitcoinBeginners: Bitcoin questions only; No promoting altcoins, tokens, ICOs. No shilling. No concern trolling; No advertising new websites, news, blog, articles; No affiliate links; Do no use URL shorteners (spammers use them). Our sample is text-only.
Where this comparison comes from
Public descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short rule titles and activity samples SubMouse collected. Short titles only. Related curated page: cryptocurrency-vs-bitcoin.
Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-02 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-10-26. Posts/day and post-type mixes appear when we have an activity sample. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order — communities outside the current Top 100 open in the info tool instead of a full community page.