Github will freeze bitcoin code for 1000 years

The Arctic glacial archipelago of Svalbard, chosen by polar bears, will become a repository foropen source codes of the largest cryptocurrency projects.

Here, away from civilization, in the 250 meter mine, GitHub will retain part of the history of blockchain technology for future generations.

The codes will be transferred to a "longer-term medium to eliminate the risk of data loss over time" – roll films that canstored in a steel container for 1000 years.

The team behind the project is currently preparing the data. Bookmark the "official archive" plan to hold at the end of April.

The project received support from the Internet Archive, the Stanford library, the Software Heritage Foundation, Microsoft Research, the Long Now Foundation, and Ethereum developers.

This peculiar time capsule will allow you to save the history of the development of cryptocurrency, which can be lost on paper and electronic media.

This is not the first time that such natural bastions have been chosen for the reliable storage of important data.As previously reported, a few years ago, Xapo turned a Swiss bunker located in the mountainsin the bitcoin vault.