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Hi! Why are there no historical BTC releases here?

I am not sure I have understood you correctly. Are you looking for previous versions of bitcoin?
If so, take note that bitcoin isn't like an application which new updates are released regularly by a company. 

Or you may be looking for list of bitcoin soft forks? Or maybe previous versions of bitcoin core?

I agree with @hosseinimr93, you should be more specific with your question. But i'll include few links for list of soft-fork and Bitcoin Core/Qt release.


See https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/soft-fork-activation/ (https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/soft-fork-activation/).


See,
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/releases)
https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/code/ (https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/code/)

On the site nakamotoinstitute there are only a few version 1.0, on github versions available since 2016, why did the versions 2009-2016 disappear into nowhere?

The code was initially hosted on sourceforge and was only later moved to github which is part of the reason why initial binaries/releases are not found on github. Additionally you can always delete older releases, I don't know if they actually did it though.
You can still find the code from 2009 using git. For example here is the repository at first commit on Aug 30, 2009: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/4405b78d6059e536c36974088a8ed4d9f0f29898

Bitcointalk shows a torrent link for the most recent Bitcoin Core version in its news field. Right now, that's version 23.0. You could still find some older versions just by editing the address. For example, instead of downloading version 23.0 from https://bitcointalk.org/bitcoin-23.0.torrent, just change the '23' into a '22' and you will download the torrent link to version 22.0. Not sure how many versions are stored though. Changing it to 21 won't download v 21.0. The download link is maybe different for that one.

You can also find links to old versions that were advertised in the news field using Wayback Machine.

Besides that, there are many old discussions that used to link to the early Core versions, but they just don't work anymore. Check out Bitcoin source from November 2008 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=382374.0), v0.1 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=68121.0), or how can I get a copy of the original source (0.1.0)? (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=49815.0) for example.

The torrent download link wasn't different for the version 21. The problem is that it hasn't been kept on the server.
The torrent link for the version 21 can be found in archived version of bitcointalk (https://archive.ph/Zwv4X). If you click on the "torrent" button, you will see that the link is https://bitcointalk.org/bitcoin-0.21.0.torrent and you get "404 Not Found" error.

Because it's a forum, not a software contributory community. That's why Github exists. On github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin) you can find all Bitcoin Core releases since 0.10.0. First release was on sourceforge (https://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/code/1/tree//trunk/) in August 2009. You can also find it in Github here (https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/4405b78d6059e536c36974088a8ed4d9f0f29898). Now, as for the in-between versions, I don't know where you can find them.

For what's worth: bitcoin-0.21.0.torrent can be found on bitcoincore.org: https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.21.0/bitcoin-0.21.0.torrent

OK, good to know. I didn't rule out the possibility that theymos only stores a few of the most recent Bitcoin Core releases and removes the old ones. That's why I said I don't know how many are stored on the server exactly, and just maybe the links were somewhat different before version 22 got released. If we remember, prior to version 22.0, the older releases were referred to as Bitcoin Core 0.21, 0.20, 0.19, etc.     

How to turn these files into exe?

Same way you do with any other source code!
You install a compiler like Visual Studio, then download the source code and all install all the dependencies it needs (eg. C++ software development tools) and finally compile the code.

Your title and content is contradicting. I know understand what you are saying but what of other people did they understand it? when I saw the topic I was thinking that you have released the history of BTC only for me to open the thread and see the opposite. What an Irony is this.

Which of the history are you talking about because there might two historical perspective in BTC. The creation history and post history . Pre-history is the one that talked about btc before Satoshi create and release it and that history is not true, it is a fantasy. BTC was created in 2008 and launched in 2009, so there is no pre btc but if you are talking of other coins released before BTC then they are.


The creation History is the one btc was created in year 2008.
Post history. BTC was created in 2008 and launched in 2009 by Satosh Nakamoto. This is the historical perspective of btc.

Did you succeed? Have you tried it? When read the readme file, there are so many programs to install that you can get confused. How to separately compile the Berkeley database?

Topic corrected!