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I hope someone at Archive.org saves the Bitcoin, Etherium, DogeCoin and other blockchains. It would be nice to have all of the transactions saved saved somewhere, along with their source code, white papers, and other documents.

[Edit] Are there archives of the various forks of Bitcoin? What about all the "shitcoins"? Unless there's an active effort to save them, the blockchains aren't native to the web, and will get lost to history.

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Less than two years ago Bitcoin traded below $10k. It's a volatile asset so of course it's going to go down as fast as it goes up. This doesn't mean that this is the end of Bitcoin, just that yet another Bitcoin bubble is deflating.

The folks at Google Cloud have been storing chain data for public access for a long time

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/data-analytics/introd...

There's 15.000 computers in the Bitcoin swarm right now, and I bet there's many more that have it downloaded that aren't running the client right now. I doubt the blockchain itself needs an archiving effort any time soon.

not sure if this comment is satire or not, but hilarious nonetheless

Somewhere in the back of my brain, a little "someone should save it" bell went off. The rest of my brain went "Ha ha, funny!".... then went on to... hmmm... there's a kernel of truth there, and what about blockchains in general.

This it went from passing snark, not worthy of anything but a rant/downvote, into the thread you see before you.

It's a weird thought to have an archive of a currency. Imagine being able to explore the history of all the tally sticks that were used, then deliberately destroyed in 1834[1]

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_Parliament

There is software that can download the blockchain to your computer

Yeah, it's called a Bitcoin client.

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