The bitcoin forum was recently hacked and the forum will now be hosted by Tibanne, a japanese company and owner of the largest bitcoin exchange. Is it better for a third party such as stack exchange to host bitcoin discussions or for a bitcoin company to do so ? I feel this is also related to the discussion about the domain for bitcoin.stackexchange.com as bitcointalk.com would be a great choice for that.
See the discussion at https://bitcoin.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/25/what-should-our-domain-name-be