The Services Board — Overview
The Services board is where forum members offer their professional skills to clients, paid in BTC. It works less like Upwork and more like a high-trust referral network — your forum reputation is the price-setting variable, not your portfolio.
Who posts here
- Service providers — writers, designers, devs, marketers, translators, escrow agents
- Clients — projects, individuals, companies needing crypto-savvy contractors
- Long-running threads — top providers maintain a single thread updated for years
What gets posted
Each provider thread typically has:
- Headline service offer
- Sample work (linked off-forum)
- Rate sheet (often USD-quoted, BTC-paid)
- Trust references
- Recent completed work documentation
- Application / contact instructions
Culture
- Pseudonymity is respected. Don't ask providers to reveal their real identity.
- Reputation precedes ability. A Hero Member with mediocre portfolio out-earns a Newbie with brilliant portfolio — for now.
- Trust feedback is public. Every completed job tends to leave a public footprint.
- Public over private negotiation. For high-value engagements, the trade thread should be public.
Verify the account, not the name
Every profile has a numeric ID in its URL (action=profile;u=NNNNN). Two accounts can display near-identical names, but the number cannot be duplicated. Record the number from a link you navigated to yourself, and check it again before sending anything. This is the check that survives every impersonation attempt on the board, and it is worth doing before money or work moves in either direction.
What works
Do
- Maintain a single service thread, updated regularly with completed work
- Use escrow on all but the smallest engagements
- Document each completed engagement (with permission)
- Specialize narrowly — 'Solidity audits' > 'all dev work'
Don't
- Cross-post the same offer in multiple threads
- Promise unrealistic turnarounds to win bids
- Skip escrow because the client 'trusts you'
- Take engagements outside your skill — your reputation pays for the gap
Common service categories
- Content + writing — articles, whitepapers, ANN threads, technical docs
- Design — branding, marketing graphics, UI/UX
- Development — smart contracts, integrations, audits, custom tools
- Marketing + community — Telegram/Discord management, social campaigns
- Translation — high-volume language services
- Escrow — neutral third party for trades (high-trust members only)
What to avoid
Some "service" offers violate the forum's rules:
- Account selling / account renting
- Merit trading
- Trust manipulation services
- Fake review writing
- Anything that helps circumvent the merit/trust/ban systems
Engaging with these as provider or client → ban.