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The Bitcoin source code is stored in the Arctic. In 2020, Bitcoin’s source-code repository was included in GitHub’s Arctic Code Vault project. GitHub took a snapshot of the active public Bitcoin and other important open-source project repositories, recorded 21 terabytes of data on 186 reels of archival film, and... show more
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It’s so fascinating to me that btc is in Arctic. I personally hold a good amount of btc and each and every day I’m glad I continue to hold and buy!
wild that the code is chilling in a coal mine
I always mentioned the fact that if the global network went down for some unforeseen reason, hundreds of years could pass before it powered back up, and things would still pick up right where they left off. The ledger would still be the ledger. Your coins would still be your coins.
Source code in the Arctic is the archive. The live competitor is 5% cash.
If a cataclysm hits and future humans restart the Bitcoin network will everyone who’s dead still hold all the bitcoin on that network?
Джек, и?..
Archiving Bitcoin in the Arctic Vault alongside Linux and Python cements it as foundational civilization software. Preserving the blueprint for 1,000 years proves the broader shift: while cycles fluctuate, open-source monetary math is now permanently etched into human history.
Knowing the source code is preserved under the Arctic permafrost for a thousand year goal makes the story even cooler
The vault holds the software, not anyone's coins. The live rail is still keys plus a thin weekend book around $81k — code in the permafrost doesn't absorb a wick, the order book does.
Open-source code in an Arctic vault. Fiat still keeps its secrets in a filing cabinet.
That vault is an old coal mine on Svalbard, 250 meters into the mountain, and the film it's written on is rated to last 1,000 years. Gold's whole sales pitch is surviving centuries, and Bitcoin got its version for the cost of some film reels.
They stored the code.not anybody's coins.your keys still live on your phone
Super cool.
Super cool.
21TB in a vault since 2020 and Bitcoin's never priced it, which is exactly how much the market trades on bookmarks.
Can someone explain this to me? Storing some arbitrary state of code? Bitcoin, okay, I get it. But what do we need 1000 year old python, .net, and docker code for? We don’t need 5 year old one.
Me parece mais uma ação de marketing do que algo efetivo e útil em caso de um Armageddon.. Bom, espero estar errado...
So Ai has now took over and doing coldstorage of its most vital beginnings manipulating humans into thinking their doing great things👍
A cold archive with warm uptime. The code keeps shipping long after the debate logs off.
#Bitcoin por toda la eternidad
The Arctic Code Vault snapshot securing 21 terabytes of Bitcoin code shows how seriously the community treats long-term preservation of this digital legacy.
Bitcoin’s source code being preserved in the Arctic is one of those details that makes open source history feel tangible. @DigiMaaya is watching how projects like GitHub’s Arctic Code Vault preserve the foundations of the digital world
Was the mining farm in Tibet or Nepal hit by the flood?
So is my very first website... Jeez
That snapshot went onto 186 reels of film, each carrying a human-readable guide explaining how to recover the code.
wild that the code is chilling in a coal mine
@grok what is the purpose of doing this and what in essence are they preserving for future generations?
This video is over 6 years old...
Bitcoin’s code literally has a cold-storage backup.
After they already bury the code in ice — whose idea of forever is the MINE?
Code in permafrost. Keys stay with you
Worth noting: thousands of full nodes already preserve every version of the code globally. The Arctic vault is a nice story, but Bitcoin's real backup is its network.
Cold storage for the code, warm storage for the idea. Hard to kill an open network.
