bitcoin-dev by the numbers
24,698 messages in 3,292 threads from 1,419 people, 12 Jun 2011 to 22 Oct 2026. 2015 was the loudest year, with 5,110 messages: the block size debate. A person is counted by the name on their mail, so one person with two spellings counts twice.
| Year | Messages | Threads | People | Messages, as a bar |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 1,014 | 159 | 85 | |
| 2012 | 1,098 | 192 | 88 | |
| 2013 | 1,859 | 248 | 169 | |
| 2014 | 3,093 | 308 | 269 | |
| 2015 | 5,110 | 517 | 401 | |
| 2016 | 1,209 | 178 | 171 | |
| 2017 | 2,091 | 274 | 275 | |
| 2018 | 1,115 | 175 | 210 | |
| 2019 | 942 | 137 | 169 | |
| 2020 | 780 | 127 | 136 | |
| 2021 | 1,386 | 205 | 198 | |
| 2022 | 1,581 | 206 | 159 | |
| 2023 | 949 | 150 | 154 | |
| 2024 | 633 | 123 | 127 | |
| 2025 | 1,140 | 164 | 199 | |
| 2026 | 698 | 129 | 151 | |
Counted from the public-inbox mirror at commit c04808f1c9f4, on 2026-10-23. The current year is partial. The list moved from SourceForge to the Linux Foundation in 2015 and to Google Groups in February 2024; the first months of 2011 are missing from every known mirror.