We need a Digital Crypto Museum

[solarsurfer]

Hi
I run many of the older coins on my site, and in fact I have resurrect quiet a few. I have even managed to convert some to auxpow while still keeping the chain as it was.

I also have saved a few of the source codes, but not the blockchain, so I cannot relaunch these without a complete blockchain.

If anyone wants an old coin re-started, they have a fully synced wallet for instance, then I might be able to re-start it and keep it running.

Regards
Andy
sha256-mining.shears.co.uk

[o48o]

But why? Blockchains aren't really build for that.

I would understand if it would be something essential to people. Something that's small enough and should be immutable against government invervention, but from whom such a memeish website should it be protected from?

Wikipedia page would be enough, or snap to internet archive from that hypothetical digital museum website.

it's just one time even though expensive and complicated, honestly since it preserve past project that have unique features, built out of purely innovation and experiment, it's not as simple as just memeish website if the goal is code preservation. Wikipedia page is centralized, can be edited by anyone at some point and internet archive is also centralized. The biggest reason why it's far fetched idea probably the workaround needed to build tool to bypass 24KB smart contract limitation but we actually already have SSTORE2 and Blob, though frankly it's still a buggy and bad workaround method, the purpose is not immutability but long term preservation. Maybe for a small old codebase with not too much bloat, it could work. Well, I guess IPFS is much simpler definitely better than wikipedia or internet achive, imo.

Again, why would we need military grade encryption to secure the code and history or whatever of the past altcoins? For whom this would be more important information then everything else actually important information that's not stored in any blockchain?

Centralization isn't a curseword. In fact it's way more practical way to store information then some bulky blockchains. This is why majority of the information isn't stored in a blockchain, no matter how important it is.

[Abiky]

Github is already enough. The code was available and you can even recycle the dead project by yourself. So why do wee need a digital crypto museum for this? There are also plenties of sites have been storing explanations and implications related to those dead coins with the unique utilities.

However, i know there is a place that already stored thousands of crypto repositories(an aggregate repositories) called https://www.awesomecrypto.xyz/. So i think no need to create another one for that. Just make it as simple as possible.

Github is centralized. It can easily disappear, putting all of developers' hard work and effort at risk. That's why we need a decentralized solution that would help preserve data forever. Only important data, not all of it. Because if we were to store every single content from every single crypto, it would take up a lot of space which will result in time and resources wasted. I'd only choose old crypto projects with unique features not found anywhere else. Projects that are straight up clones from others would be discarded. Same goes for projects with minimal tweaks.

Like I've said, there would be a website that would serve as the front-end interface to access content hosted on a decentralized CDN. The one you've provided is nice, but certainly not enough. For what I know, content is hosted on a centralized server. If there's interest from the community to make a digital crypto museum, it will become a reality. Otherwise, not. Perhaps, it's best to download and preserve crypto repositories ourselves? I have many binaries and repositories stored on a HDD for future reference. If you're a true crypto enthusiast/lover, I'd suggest you do the same.