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Either for your own amusement or for your unborn clones?

Do you diligently save sites, videos, discussions and previous software versions just in case they disappear from the internet for future reference? Is there actually any type of dedicated crypto archive out there? I'm not sure I can think of anything.

No matter what happens to the entire scene the impact it has made will be studied for centuries. I wonder how much information will be available to the curious in the years to come.

Here's the only snippet I ever bothered with. It took several hours of waiting but was a moment well worth preserving if only for my wank bank. 

https://i.imgur.com/kBuhKfv.jpg?1

I have never saved a site or recorded a video about crypto, there are many sites about crypto, if the site that I always visit is deleted I will look for other sites, because I'm sure sites about Crypto won't be completely deleted.

i have a bunch of versions of bitcoin core and electrum saved up as i had downloaded them at the time and now am only storing them for historical reasons.
sometimes i bookmark some topics or comments on bitcointalk to look at in the future like the 5 BTC faucet (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=183.0) topic. one that would be very relevant to this time (since we are getting closer to halving and the drama is starting to grow) is this topic (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1575802.0;all), there might have been better topics to bookmark but this is among a large number of them that were practically claiming that bitcoin will die after the halving as miners leave. it is laughable today although sometimes you see the same arguments start up again!

I usually don't do that. because I know that no one here can make accurate judgments but myself. I only usually read news that have a big impact on crypto such as SEC, bitcoin halving, ETC hard fork, ... which is the news that I will read and execute buy and sell orders to make a profit. archiving really has no benefit in a market full of manipulation. Because the value of bitcoin is controlled by manipulative organizations and historical data cannot say anything.

I never do record any website but I have maintained an excel sheet and I do record stuff I like there. Stuff like some good quotes or technical things related to crypto. Rest there is no need to record any predictions as almost all went wrong.

Does it carry any special importance for your own purpose? If it is yes then you have to do it, for me, It's not an important thing because of every transaction or information automatically saved or preserved if you want, if you need the previous transaction then you would get by searching the history of anything, so this one is not necessary saving, again and again, Basically, I am using Coinbase, Binance and the other one so every information I am getting from those systems and every information is automatically being stored and saved. that's why I don't do anything regarding this issue.

Google probably did this. Or even better, one of the national agencies out there. They need to archive them for intelligent purposes, and of course future surveillance.

I do not see an open-source or public archive about this one but archive.org might be able to help you with some documents or books. Wayback machine would also have some data as long as they keep their database safe (which probably is with the cloud service).

I think that online services like Wayback Machine/Archive.org will save some crypto related websites that are gone.I'm not 100% sure though.I'm not interested into saving any cryptocurrency related websites,videos or articles.I guess that,if some sort of info is on the internet,it's going to stay on the internet forever. ;D

I have on my old laptop, almost everything is a discussions here in this community. But as far as Satoshi's emails and stuff, I think there are websites you already preserved it. I previously used archive.is, but for unknown reasons, it's no longer working on my end. I'm using http://web.archive.org/ now.


Yeah, for sure in the next decade or centuries, crypto or at least bitcoin will be in the discussions, it's effect, impact and how it shape the entire economic landscape of the world.

Well i find it too tiring just to think about it so no. I've already used and spent past btcs and i think it wouldn't have any effect on how i handle my assets in the future. Aside from the fact that i'm mostly going to see how much my assets dropped dye to bungling decisions. No, i'd rather live for today and tomorrow 😁

I don't have any record nor I preserve Bitcoin history by saving it on my disk.  I have them bookmarked so that I can go back to the site if I needed some information.  But this thread made me realized that sites are not forever up and available so I guess I will start saving videos, discussion and information with regards to BTC.

I have a pretty large collection of screenshots that I take from 2014 when I start to collect coins from faucets. It's not about something that is particularly relevant and important, but for me personally it has sentimental value. I think it's important to preserve some of your personal history, even though everything is available online today.

This is from time faucets pay 500 - 5000 satoshi :

https://i.imgur.com/nXJzz9d.jpg

In anticipation of halving 2016 :

https://i.imgur.com/bne8HOW.jpg

I was not able to save the ATH before but this time I will make sure that i have the copy of the up coming bull run and i will show that to the haters of bitcoin. It’s goo that you have the best bitcoin history and looks like you’re here for almost a decade as well with bitcoin? Researcher will surely make a study on how bitcoin change the world financial system and I’m so excited for this.

I agree. Im pretty sure that lot of people saved it so why do I need to saved in myself. I can search it to get information if I want. But having collection of records about bitcoin was really helpful because you will know the status of its value.

We dont actually need to save a compilation of videos and texts about bitcoin or even the crypto world because we are now living in the 21st century meaning to say we are in the technology era right now. Even if we dont have any record we can still find a lot of this through internet most especially about the bitcoin and the crypto world. 

Guess you mean "unborn children". Clone sounds a bit creepy.
Well, I think archived things are best stored decentrally. Am not too comfortable with the centralized solutions. But I still manage them for now.
There are couple of decentralized alternatives am not sure work today. I have used one few times but don't think it's something I can depend on too.  Others are not very easy to use.
One of my most reliable ways of storing such things is having very important ones stored offline on my data storage devices just incase something happens to the internet.

I only save screenshots of photos when I first earn bitcoin in the signature campaign Komodo way back 2016, screenshots of HYIP and faucets where I earn a little bit of bitcoins, and photos when I cash out $4,000 worth of bitcoin, basically just those, didn't even bother saving sites because I guess I'm too lazy to do that or I just don't see them as important to be save.

And for all the bitcoin I earned, blockchain is always there.

I save a lot of history but unfortunately my laptop was lost at that time, unfortunately there are no important files in it, I want to share it here, I saved a lot there, including the price of ATH Bitcoin 2017 and others as well as other historical images including videos, but I recorded some to show later, I save and back it up for next year

I would be honest  I do that , take a screenshot and unfortunately I do take a lot of screenshots and then I end up loosing the news anyways. I can never scramble through that clutter !

:') But I think we already can find important events and news right here , you can check out the old topics and you will be able to see a lot of things that you would have missed , sometimes I go though them . Other than that I think the future is what bitcoins is all about .

I don't do that. I had a couple of screenshots that I found interesting back then, but honestly, now I have no idea where they are. If we're talking about 10 years in the future or something, I am sure that many websites would still be on. Those that won't be can be accessed by Wayback machine or something similar like joniboini pointed out. I also wanted to say that coinmarketcap has historical screenshots (https://coinmarketcap.com/historical/) that go back to the end of April 2013 and then on a weekly basis up till these days. I like to take a look at some of them from time to time to see how much the market's changed and how unbelievable the prices were.

Smart.  I had the thread where the first signature campaign got started bookmarked, but I lost it for some reason.  And man, that 5BTC faucet!  Just a snippet from one post in that thread:


Crazy to think that was only ten years ago.  2010 seems like yesterday to me.

Anyway, I don't save old files or anything like that, but there are certain things I hold on to that have personal if not historical significance.  I have some BTC pennies that I got as a giveaway from minerjones as well as some stickers he sent along with them.  He also gave away some silver-colored BTC coins about the size of a silver dollar, and I have those still in their capsules.

I also have a silver skull that belonged to the late Zepher which I bought in the Auctions section.  I didn't know him very well, but it's kind of symbolic of the importance this forum has to me and how important good members are to it.  And yeah, OP, all that stuff is history in the making--I agree that bitcoin and crypto culture will probably be studied in years to come.  I'd love to read the telling of it if a book is ever written.

If you take the actual time to read what threads are about your life will improve immeasurably.



The lightspeed at which it all moves makes the attempts so far look a bit naff. Digital Gold is a great read about the very early phase and then it gets bogged down in the Winkies arguing with Charlie Shrem over long dead companies. I keep meaning to get around to watching the Rise and Rise of Bitcoin again but it might feel painfully passe at this point.

Stuff that seemed massive at the time has faded to complete irrelevance now.

My answer is yes, I always save useful information and use it for reference in case of need.
The information I save includes my trading experience and successful people I know. The tips and technical knowledge of cryptocurrencies are also things that I save.

If I were in the same year as you, maybe I would also do the same thing by storing some important news and history in the form of photos, documents, videos and other things that should be known by me in the future as a reminder or for my child.

That is indeed a very important thing, but for the present era with better technological developments. All history can be stored properly in a private cloud or can use a wayback machine website like web.archive.org and archive.org. which makes it possible to record all the data that is on the selected website's display and store it on their server.

for the way I record and store every event that happens to bitcoin, I bookmark in my browser account so that it will automatically be backed up to a cloud account and I also use a smartphone to screenshot important events aand then the screenshot is automatically uploaded to my cloud account.

that way, then all historical events about bitcoin or other history can be stored safely and the personal cloud application will remind me of that history every year at the same date and time when uploaded.

One would often think that you can resort to the Internet to find some sort of archive of whatever you need, be it because it is still online, has historical data browsing capabilities, or is stored at site such as Archive Today or The Way Back Machine.

Of course, the above is not true in a wide variety of cases: sites get pulled down over time, and pop goes their content, other sites alter/overwrite their content, and the Archive sites by excellence may one day disappear, along with the vast amount of historical data they contain.

Sites like The Wayback Machine cannot archive all types of data, and do not archive the content for every single modification performed to a given site. In addition, the may take into account appeals to exclude sites (historically they followed the robots exclusion standard, but now they seem to require a citation to do so), rendering a given set of archived data unavailable.

All in all, if you’re really keen on archiving something, it’s better to assure you do it yourself.

Saving important information from a site was usual for me I have to take a bookmark and or sometimes copying the URL of the site or save it in a notepad and mostly it is related to cryptocurrency sites, not a dedicated forum site like Bitcointalk but news that pretty much makes the importance in taking part or related to cryptocurrency sometimes, and mostly online wallet and exchange has a certain space in my notepad of saving sites related to cryptocurrency so you can say that I often do that, but just saving the URL link to a notepad.

There is a lot of knowledge that we need to learn in the cryptocurrency market, it is essential to keep that knowledge or experience and I think that is very good.
I agree that we can find everything on the internet but it will take a lot more time than we actively save it.

But it will be easier for you if you really save or record some things about crypto because if you don't save it will took a lot of time and effort before you find them. There are some cases that you need to find it because there are important details about that, for example, the time of transactions, the date, the website and anything more that will help you to observe past transactions in cryptocurrency.

I didn't really record anything related to crypto in the past years, I'm just saving some stuffs related to my bitcoin's wallet data as private keys and password, but I don't really save bitcoin's price or even I don't do predictions, I just believe in my intuition related to the price and I'm always following it. However the most important stuffs about bitcoin history are already saved in the internet and anyone be able to look at it by simple reaserches.

I don't see the point of safekeeping sites or videos or anything vaguely affiliated with bitcoin really. It's just a waste of time. If there is something that had been stated though that is remarkable I might record it and save it so I can get back to it for whenever I want to. But most of the time looking for something similar to the ones I lost usually do the trick, so I don't bother myself with saving too much unnecessary stuff.

I have a few photos I've taken of my crypto portfolio and the balance I had on PrimeDice back when I was a very big crypto casino addict. I remember I touched about 0.4BTC starting with no deposits or anything but the 200 satoshi (correct me if I'm wrong) free faucet. I tried to go for a 4950x win and I WON, so that's why I took a picture of it.

To be honest, there are so many "checkpoints" I've had during my crypto journey and I truly regret I haven't saved them anywhere. From time to time, I think about the idea of printing the BTC chart every month right next to my portfolio value.. Earlier today I checked my old email accounts and saw some correspondence between me and an old friend when BTC was under $500. Good, good times.

Awesome--I just ordered a paperback copy of Digital Gold, as I have yet to read any books dealing with cryptocurrency.  Since it was the first one that apparently came to your mind, I would imagine it's a good read. 

I have watched The Rise & Rise documentary and found it pretty interesting but I didn't learn anything new from it. 

That may be true, that those are the things that I think need to be documented for history, as they're things most likely to be forgotten.  Years from now if I'm reading a history of crypto, I'd be most interested in the details that I might have forgotten--not the big stuff.  And I don't know exactly what "stuff" you're thinking of, but I get the gist of what you're saying. 

I wonder if anyone is keeping track of the goings on in bitcoin as they happen, perhaps in anticipation of a written history.

With the increase in demand, its wide use and importance, multiple sites have been created who give you each and every information about the Bitcoin, how transactions are made, how the software works. I think in future more sites will be created with the increase in demand. There is no need of saving any video or record. If it helps you in any way you can do it, but you can always check the history at various sites when you need it.

When Google chart and my portfolio application holding the record of the Bitcoin price and tracking all my crypto savings, I believe I doesn't need to to record the the Bitcoin history using any documents or or in mobiles.

It's a really good summary of the absolute beginning, if a bit too brief. I wish it had been more detailed about that as that's the period of time that really matters and it seems not all that many people here show much awareness of it. It hammers home how absolutely microscopic it was at the start.

If we love to see the previous records about bitcoin history, there's always a recorded highest price at coinmarketcap. Everything in that website will summaries every historical market charts in each respective coins. Nothing will be happen if you fail to utilize the previous past experiences, because it's only human nature to store btc value and wait for another Ultimate rise.

and here I thought I was the only one who's doing it. I saved several notable discussion, articles and videos but my reason for saving it is not the same as yours. I saved it to keep
myself reminded of the things bitcoin achieved and obstacles it faced since it's released and in doing so gives me a sense of pride(at least for me) that I never gave up the thought
of the possibilities, bitcoin can achieve while others drag it down and destroy it through misinformation

It was an integrated approach. Maybe one day I can shoot my own bitcoin history as a video. I have been trading on the market for 3 years. I experienced the Bull and Bear markets. I missed big earning opportunities. I also evaluated some of them.

With this, it is personal which is quite normla because this is like just storing our personal datas to our harddrive, but what is more sensible is when we are storing data from the worldwide internet that is mainly have a good purpose at the moment. But I'm pretty sure, that the owners of many websites have their backups of their sites so, an alternative is to have a good contact to the administrators to probably have the copy of the sites.

I just have the recovery phrases recorded for the future generation. Going through our forum we'll get to know anything about cryptocurrencies. This way my plan is to introduce bitcointalk to my unborn clones. When they explore little by little the learning and the interest they get is bigger than watching or testing something that we've preserved for them.

With all the recordings and different things related to cryptocurrency maybe in the future we can create a museum that is completely virtual. This will help in widening of the bitcoin usage and people get to know more about it.

I sort of do that for random YouTube videos. What you describe sounds obsessive, since the chances of things getting deleted is rare.

Tons and tons of YouTube stuff goes missing every day.

My likes and history list has masses of black holes in it.

Most YouTube crypto content is of course beneath worthless but some important moments must have disappeared completely.

Yes, I agree with you, I also never save a site, video or discussion about bitcoin. because I think it doesn't need to be done. because now there are so many sites and videos that talk about cryptocurrency. if a site is deleted I can still get information or references from other sites. and now we can also easily get information about cryptocurrency from social media such as Twitter.

I think we can see the record of bitcoin through the graph, where support and resistance have been presented there, so we can determine the buy or sell area as our work plan. indeed this requires training because experience will make us more sensitive to the market

Yes, I actually somehow got lucky and hit a block with my Antminer S3 back in 2016, unfortunately it was with a pool however the pool listed the username of the block finder.

https://blockchair.com/bitcoin/block/399594

See the coinbase data text

"Mined by adaseb"

Actually I never even knew I hit this block until like a year later when I checked the F2pool history and turns out I actually found a block. Crazy!

Even if you need the first version of the first crypto wallet ever, I believe there are sites then that managed to store it lol ;D. I do save things that I feel are important, but I don’t think I have ever saved anything that’s related cryptocurrency, neither have I saved an older versions of a wallet. Speak of wallets, I just update my wallet when there is an update and I don’t really save the old updates because when I update the older versions get automatically deleted.

But, I have seen a lot of sites where you can get older versions of a wallet. You can find almost anything online these days. Honestly like most other people here I am also running out of time to enjoy those thing hence preserving them is not all becoming impossible for myself too.

I feel you... Happens with me all the time.

I really miss those small memories which I should have saved, like at least a screenshot of it to show my family. I feel there is a need for something like this and someone should take up this job. There will be lots of viewers and they can earn on ads.

Most people record the event when the price of Bitcoin rise and mostly invest when they think that the event will occur again a month prior to that date. As for me, I record some event that makes the price fall. so that I can sell my holdings before the bearish market would possibly happen. Some rare events are important because they are the ones who push the markets of BTC to rise even further. like for example the Pizza Bitcoin.

We don't need to do that, wasting time because market is unpredictable and knowledge always grow up, in this case we can see from history chart because up date information more needed than analysis the past. I only saving my history strategy and record it into notepad as my valuable journey. Stay focus with future with analysis past is good method and term but now we face something different. All manipulation, speculation and gambling make market not healthy any more.

the only record of a bitcoin site that I followed was from a transaction email notification. more emails about withdrawals. like Hashocean a few years ago. which is very booming among crypto hunters. based as cloud mining (possibly HYIP) can last more than 1.5 years. others I have never recorded in the form of video or photos. ;D :D

Yes it is absolutely a waste of time because if you want to take a look at some informarions about crypto world or cryptocurrency you can just take a look at it on the internet. We are in a technology advance century and all of the things are can barely find in the internet. Collecting or gathering the datas about crypto world are time and space consuming most especially if you're gonna store it to your gadgets.

I never save news or videos about bitcoin. because in my opinion it is of no use. and if you want to see the bitcoin movement in the previous year we can see it on the graph. most people i think only upload bitcoin graphic images when bitcoin pump or dump on social media.

ive preserved my local history. as in i have saved countless screen shots of the pools i mined at (logs, hashrates, miner payouts), exchanges, receipts of mining hardware, pictures of my gear. printed a lot of that out too.

did it mainly to prove where and when i got my btc. in this heavily KYCd country (USA) one will surely need to prove where that btc came from. and where the money to buy miners and btc came from too.

so, i did it mainly for myself in case i ever need to prove where my sats came from.

For me I am still saving some news and videos about bitcoin especially those videos and news that are very relevant and important that may used on the future or someday. We can use Those important news and videos to manipulate and understand on what is happening on the market right now. This is very important for us to be updated every time especially those history because this are the one we can use on how we will survive the current situation of the market.
Saving the market graph from the past years can help us to predict what will happen on the next few days.

I haven't record any history but I preserve the ideas I read on the forum about bitcoin history. The latest was a poem written and I really like the it was created. Its something new and very interesting to read. Though it was a little short history, it still has stated some of it and how it grows.

Dang. I missed the shot I could get when Bitcoin was up to 20k in 2017.
I was one of those hodlers that would refresh the updated price of Bitcoin overtime.
I am searching using the keyword "btc to usd" commonly in Google and it was like an unhealthy habit for me.
I could've save a screenshot or even put it into archive if I had the chance.

It didn't hit 20 grand on any of the most credible exchanges. It did on a few illiquid ones but that doesn't count in my book.

10 grand was the magic figure for me and I'm glad I grabbed it. Just a couple of years before that figure would've seemed like pure sci fi yet there it was.

Although make record with bitcoin price history I think is not become best solution way and have different price every year with bitcoin and altcoin, without have accurate prediction I think is nothing if make chart and analyze with bitcoin price year by year and nothing if use historical of bitcoin price last year always not have the same.

I really don't save any videos, websites, graphs nothing I saved till now i felt its of no use because it's just occupying space in my laptop. When it's required I'll check it out the graph and on Google. If it's too important I'll save it.

It's up to you whether you save or not Bitcoin transaction.

I never saved any sites or videos just to make it my future references. What am I doing is that I just check those insight of every analyst about bitcoin price and base my prediction there. Even though some of them is not a legitimate prediction I still accept their inputs and insights and analyze it also by myself.

I've never thought about it that way,
Normally I use my browser to bookmark important news But if the news is removed from that site I can't find it anymore.
Sometimes, if I find very important news then I archived it for my future use.

I think very few people will do the job of storing or recording the data or history of bitcoin because most of us are not market researchers, we are not the editors for a magazine or website, we are just very ordinary investors and what we care about every day is value, the latest information about bitcoin, it is enough for us to set up a plan for investing or making money. Besides, the actual records don't have too many reference values when each time is a different face of bitcoin, it cannot help us too much in the future.

There is no need of recording or preserving the history. If it help you in any way you can do that. You can check the required information anytime you can get it from multiple sites on the internet. In the present era of technological advancements people opted for shortcuts and time saving options. If you have the internet facility avail it for a better cause and search whatever you need instead of holding and preserving the history.

I still save some, mostly left it as tab in my chrome so I can read when Im about to close  tabs at night . I do also save Some screenshots of my trade and earnings since sometimes I can't believe I did it myself or to remind me My losses or gains way back in my newbie days in trading bitcoin that many post I see about it I saved it.

My bad.  ;D
I still don't have any account to any exchanges that year as I was still learning Bitcoin.
Same boat as yours though in 10G.

In my own opinion, recording and preserving about the history of bitcoin would be a great idea that you are just like a historian but in bitcoin. The only thing that will benefit from doing it is just for future evidences and for people who will make a study about bitcoin. But none of us don't have a lot of time for us to saved sites, videos, discussions, etc because we are too busy to earn profit with bitcoin.

archive.org it could be down or hacked, nothing is really safe when storing it online.
I just want to save my soft files on the hard drive that only I can access.

Storing your coins on hard drive is one of the safest way of holding your coins. It is also a multisignature wallet. The seed phrase created by the wallet should be placed at the safest place after noting it down on a piece of a paper. If you by mistake loose that seed phrase that is your own fault, so be very careful while dealing with it because it will give back you your coins.

I've found archive.org fucking hopeless for most of the old things I was curious about. It might have one page from a certain month and much of the time that's empty too. No way can you depend on it to retain stuff that interests you. And crypto is an awful lot more fleeting than most other subjects.