IRC channels

Most of the following Bitcoin-related IRC channels are available on Freenode:

Please read: Bitcoin IRC Channel Guidelines before joining.

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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

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.

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

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	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.

Channel	Description
opentransactions	Open Transactions project.
namecoin	Namecoin and the Dot-bit project.
twister	Twister, P2P microblogging discussion.
joinmarket	, A CoinJoin implementation
darkwallet	DarkWallet and libbitcoin/Obelisk discussion & development channel.
electrum	Electrum, lightweight bitcoin client.
copay	Copay, lightweight bitcoin client.
bitcoin-stackexchange	Discussion complementing Bitcoin StackExchange.