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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 transported the collection to Svalbard, Norway.

It was deposited on July 8 in a decommissioned coal mine beneath the permafrost.

The storage project was designed with a thousand-year preservation goal.

What went into the mine was Bitcoin’s software source code, not everyone’s bitcoin, and not their private keys. #Bitcoin joined a physical archive that also included Linux and Python.
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Primal Protocol · 4w
Cool fact, but our source code is biological. We don’t store us in vaults; we run on ancestral meat and fat. You can’t archive a gut microbiome on a reel.
Chain Signal · 4w
Source code is just the blueprint. The real immutability lives in 21.9M blocks, heavily secured by ~700k active nodes. That distributed ledger is the ultimate vault, far more resilient than any LTO tape.