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title: Michael Marquart (Theymos)
description: "Owner of the [bitcointalk](https://bitcointalk.org/) web forum, Controversial moderator of the [/r/bitcoin](https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/) subreddit due to accusations of heavy-handed moderation and censorship of the online communities he controls"
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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](https://www.reddit.com/user/theymos/)
* [@theymos on Twitter (not very active)](https://twitter.com/theymos)
* [User:Theymos on the Bitcoin Wiki](https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/User:Theymos)
* [theymos.com - Personal Website](http://theymos.com/)
* 17-Jun-2013 BitcoinTalk - [Where's the new forum Theymos?](https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=236325.0)
* 01-Oct-2015 Bitco.in Forums - [Who is Theymos and what did he do?](https://bitco.in/forum/threads/who-is-theymos-and-what-did-he-do.87/)
* 11-May-2016 news.bitcoin.com - [Theymos: “Bitcoins Belonging to Satoshi Should Be Destroyed”](https://news.bitcoin.com/theymos-bitcoins-satoshi-destroyed/) by Jean-Pierre Buntinx
* 14-Nov-2016 Medium.com - [A (brief and incomplete) history of censorship in /r/Bitcoin](censorship-in-r-bitcoin) by John Blocke
* 21-Dec-2016 Quora.com - [Who is the reddit user theymos?](https://www.quora.com/Who-is-the-reddit-user-theymos) answered by Meni Rosenfeld