The Bitcoin Mailing List and its history is erased from Linux
Swathes of Bitcoin’s history have been erased from the internet forum that hosted communications between developers for nearly a decade.
Today, the migration of the group email list commonly known as the ‘Bitcoin Mailing List‘ is complete and Bitcoin Core developers have purged its archives from their open-source home on the Linux Foundation forever.
Visitors to the former homepage of the archive are now simply greeted with an error message: “No such list bitcoin-dev.”
It is the end of an era of sorts for communicating about Bitcoin development.
From now on, the list will live on via a Google Group, supported by the $2 trillion tech giant’s infrastructure. The move was prompted, in part, by the Linux Foundation’s decision to stop hosting email lists as of year-end 2023.
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Bitcoin-dev Archives Purged From Linux, Re-Homed On Google Groups
The ‘bitcoin-dev’ mailing list, a cornerstone of Bitcoin development for over a decade, is now exclusively hosted on Google’s centralized servers.
On Nov.5, Bitcoin Core developer Bryan Bishop announced that the mailing list had been purged from the Linux Foundation archives.
The bitcoin-dev archives and ongoing communication now exclusively reside on Google Groups, an ironic twist for a technological phenomenon staunchly committed to decentralization and open-source development.
“After working through a few roadblocks, we are now finally ready to migrate the mailing list to Google Groups,” Bishop said. “Emails to the old list are no longer accepted as of February 2024. We aren't relying on Google for anything critical here and are merely using them as a conduit for information that is already meant to be public.”