Governance, moderation and the list itself
Who decides, how the list is run, and the three times it moved house: SourceForge to the Linux Foundation in 2015, and to Google Groups in 2024. Moderation disputes and code-of-conduct threads are here too; they are part of the record.
77 threads and 694 messages, 9 Jan 2012 to 6 Oct 2026.
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The threads, in order
Listed by the date of each thread's first message.
2012 6 threads
- IRC meeting Tuesday tomorrow 21:00 UTC Amir Taaki1 message
- IRC meeting Tuesday, Feb 14, 21:00 UTC Gavin Andresen3 messages
- 14 Feb IRC meeting summary Gavin Andresen1 message
- Enforcing inflation rules for SPV clients Mike Hearn6 messages
- Electrum mailing list Amir Taaki1 message
- IRC meeting agenda, 18:00 UTC Thursday Gavin Andresen9 messages
2013 3 threads
- Large-blocks and censorship Peter Todd7 messages
- Blockchain torrent on SourceForge d/l area? Jeff Garzik1 message
- 1 message
2014 4 threads
- 12 messages
- 1 message
- Mailing list abuse Rodney Morris3 messages
- 5 messages
2015 23 threads
- 4 messages
- Meta suggestions for this block size debate Mats Henricson11 messages
- 19 messages
- Concerns Regarding Threats by a Developer to Remove Commit Access from Other Developers Odinn Cyberguerrilla60 messages
- FYI - Mailing List Move Preparations Warren Togami3 messages
- 10 messages
- 7 messages
- Bitcoin governance NxtChg4 messages
- A reason we can all agree on to increase block size Jim Phillips19 messages
- Eli Dourado on "governance" Gavin Andresen29 messages
- 10 messages
- bitcoin-dev list etiquette Alex Morcos10 messages
- Censorship sisadm10115 messages
- Scaling Bitcoin conference micro-report Jeff Garzik46 messages
- Bitcoin dev IRC meeting in layman's terms G1lius Caesar1 message
- Bitcoin dev meeting in layman's terms (2015-10-8) G1lius Caesar1 message
- Proposed list moderation policy and conduct Jeff Garzik5 messages
- Bitcoin dev IRC meeting in layman's terms (2015-10-15) G1lius Caesar1 message
- Mailing List Moderation Now Active. Rusty Russell4 messages
- Announcing Jonas Schnelli as GUI maintainer Wladimir J. van der Laan2 messages
- How to evaluate block size increase suggestions. Emin Gün Sirer6 messages
- 7 messages
- Weekly developer meetings over holidays Wladimir J. van der Laan1 message
2016 5 threads
- Three Month bitcoin-dev Moderation Review Rusty Russell10 messages
- IRC meetings moved to #bitcoin-core-dev Wladimir J. van der Laan1 message
- 1 message
- 3 messages
- 1 Year bitcoin-dev Moderation Review Jeremy Rubin4 messages
2017 3 threads
- SHA1 collisions make Git vulnerable to attakcs by third-parties, not just repo maintainers Peter Todd32 messages
- Inquiry: Transaction Tiering Martin Stolze15 messages
- 10 messages
2018 5 threads
- 8 messages
- Possible change to the MIT license Jose Femenías Cañuelo15 messages
- Weekly IRC Meeting Time Poll Cory Fields4 messages
- 3 messages
- 1 message
2019 3 threads
- Mailing list downtime, archive, and its future Bryan Bishop1 message
- WORKVERIFY: uncensorable contracts hedging biggest risk of mining without 3rd party or oracle Tamas Blummer1 message
- bitcoin-dev moderation Emil Engler2 messages
2020 1 thread
- 4 messages
2021 4 threads
- Update on DLCs (new mailing list) Nadav Kohen1 message
- Taproot NACK LORD HIS EXCELLENCY JAMES HRMH36 messages
- Proposal: Low Energy Bitcoin PoW Bogdan Penkovsky15 messages
- Reducing block reward via soft fork James Lu15 messages
2022 6 threads
- Reading moderated emails alicexbt1 message
- Towards a means of measuring user support for Soft Forks Keagan McClelland19 messages
- CTV BIP Meeting #8 Notes alicexbt9 messages
- Online Socratic on MuSig2 and biweekly secp256k1 IRC meeting Michael Folkson1 message
- 3 messages
- 16 messages
2023 4 threads
- 10 messages
- Bitcoin Core maintainers and communication on merge decisions Michael Folkson28 messages
- Bitcoin mail list needs an explicit moderation policy Dr Maxim Orlovsky4 messages
- Future of the bitcoin-dev mailing list Bryan Bishop26 messages
2024 3 threads
- bitcoin-dev Mailing List Migration (Action Required) Bryan Bishop1 message
- Broken links to the previous mailing list archive Bryan Bishop3 messages
- 3 messages
2025 5 threads
- 16 messages
- The case for privatizing Bitcoin Core Bryan Bishop12 messages
- The Cat, BIP draft discussion. Bitcoin Mechanic20 messages
- 1 message
- 2 messages
2026 2 threads
- Deactivating ECDSA/Schnorr Erik Aronesty10 messages
- RE BIP 300: 26% censoring attack Ori Newman1 message