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GitHub Is Burying Bitcoin Code Inside An Arctic Mountain
Summary: GitHub has chosen An icy mountain in Norway’s Svalbard – an all but inhabitable, Arctic archipelago covered in glaciers and inhabited by polar bears, to store reams of open-source code. That includes Bitcoin Core, by far the most popular code implementation of Bitcoin’s underlying infrastructure and one of the most used repositories on GitHub.As a ...
GitHub has chosen An icy mountain in Norway’s Svalbard – an all but inhabitable, Arctic archipelago covered in glaciers and inhabited by polar bears, to store reams of open-source code. That includes Bitcoin Core, by far the most popular code implementation of Bitcoin’s underlying infrastructure and one of the most used repositories on GitHub.
As a part of an archiving program for safeguarding an important part of technological history, a “snapshot” of all this code will be copied onto film reels and stored in a steel container, all done in an effort to keep the data alive and unscathed for 1,000 years.
Tracy Chen
