GitHub, the collaborative version-control platform for digital currencies, has hosted Bitcoin Core as well many other Bitcoin software projects since over a year ago. But it is not the only one.
GitHub’s recent performance issues have sparked a fresh wave of criticism. They are reviving concerns about its reliability and design. Matt Corallo is one of the most active Bitcoin core developers. He took to X to announce his decision to leave the platform. Not the codebase, yet. Rust Lightning dev kitHe is heavily involved in, which is a codebase.
A retweet X-quote thread goes through several viral tweets complaining about the platform. Corallo said, “our org currently has no CI (quality testing processes) because GitHub wrongly flagged a contributor, not an admin or maintainer, just someone new who opened a few pull requests. We’ve escalated it through corporate account managers and still basically nothing.” A week or so later, he added: “GitHub has decided our open-source project has been permanently banned with no explanation and no option to appeal, pointing to a ToS that clearly does not cover anything we’ve ever done.” – “I guess it’s time for Bitcoin projects to leave GitHub.”
This contributor has been banned. Luis Schwab, who replied “I’ve had my account banned twice within a week “By mistake”. Relying on GitHub’s goodwill is not a good long term strategy.” Other Bitcoin and crypto engineers also responded to the same experiences. They said they, too, had left the platform without recourse or were banned. Roman StormWho answered? “In 2022, GitHub locked my account over Tornado Cash sanctions. I’m a US citizen. They told me to get an OFAC license to access my own account. The sanctions were later ruled unlawful and overturned. The account is still locked. I’ve filed ticket after ticket – now they don’t even respond. Abolish GitHub.”
Corallo blames AI on recent mass account bans and the increasingly aggressive actions taken by this massive platform. Vibe coding’s popularity has brought amateur projects, automated bot-like behaviors and a wave of new attention to an already overburdened website. GitHub has been a popular place for coders to share their work. claims to host There are over 420,000,000 repositories in the world and 4,000,000 organizations. GitHub was acquired by Microsoft in 2018Some also explain its slow decline.
Andrew Poelstra who has over a decade experience as a senior Bitcoin Core and Rust Lighting contributor, wrote a scathing takedown on GitHub to defend the migration. The site contains a large amount of LLM, but they do not intend to stop it. they did write this insane blog post taking credit for FOSS “As a means of admitting the problem”, he said, explaining that the merge of code in the master repositories has now been completed. “broken for several days.” The cascading effects of this confusion caused the “merge script,” A program for ensuring that code updates are performed correctly.
The bug meant that tracking and merging pull requests — contributions from other developers — didn’t work as expected. “Tracking PRs is the one thing GitHub is supposed to do, and it’s broken. It’s no longer more convenient to stay here than to leave, which was the only reason we’ve stayed so long,” Poelstra continued. “The usual problems where diffs and comments are hidden, the site being slow and unreliable, the permissions model being insane and broken, the lock-in, the crappy and slow API, etc. [All of] which we could live with if the basic functionality worked, but it doesn’t.”
Rust lightning and possibly other Bitcoin projects could be headed to China. ForgejoGitHub is a lightweight alternative that’s optimized for self-hosting projects and those with high levels of agency. Corallo has confirmed that Bitcoin Magazine reports “rust bitcoin already began migrating towards git.rust-bitcoin.orgRust Lightning was the next to follow.
There is no indication that there will be a mirroring strategy in place for the long term. on their own site.
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Source: bitcoinmagazine.com
