One of the key Bitcoin communication tools used to discuss the potential changes of the protocol was knocked out for several hours from April 2, with one moderator speculates that it can be a targeted attack supported by bots.

For several hours in April 2 and 3, Bitcoin programmers and researchers were unable to interact in Google groups after Google banned the SPAM group.

“Bitcoins mailing list was identified as spam containing spam, malware or other malicious content,” a Google warning was found.

Bryan Bishop, a Bitcoin Core developer, told CointeLgraph that the ban could have been caused by people or mass bots reporting the Bitcoin email list from many accounts.

Bishop said that this is a common tactic of attackers who want to ban or censor the community, noting that similar incidents occur on YouTube, X and Tiktok quite often.

“It is possible, therefore, that this whole thing could be caused by something like that. Maybe it was someone who clicked these links on a large scale to report it.”

Workspace Workspace Google account confirmed that the problem was solved on April 3 at 2:23 UTC in response to one of the other Bitcoin, Ruben Somsen mailing list.

Bitcoin lawyer and head of Block Inc, Jack Dorsey, also drew attention to the ban, urging Sundar Pichai, General Director of Google to investigate the problem.

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Mailing lists usually include one moderator E -Mail of sending information to subscribers in the group to discuss and cooperate on or shared interest.

The Bitcoin mailing list is used by Bitcoin Core programmers and researchers and scientists to discuss potential changes in the Bitcoin protocol, which ensures a value of over USD 1.6 trillion for network users around the world.

It has become one of the main Bitcoin mailing lists since the nickname of the creator of the network, Satoshi Nakamoto, made available the White Book of Bitcoin on the mailing list of cryptography on October 31, 2008.

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Despite the Bishop incident, he said that the moderators of the Bitcoin mailing list are not going to move away from communication via e -mail:

“The reality of the situation is that this specific mailing list has always been e -mail, and therefore colleagues who discuss the development of the Bitcoin protocol via e -mail to ensure the continuity of services, you must replace it by e -mail.”

Bitcoin mailing list officially migrated to Google groups in February 2024.

Earlier, the mailing list was hosted in Linux Foundation, the Open Source Oregon State University and Sourceforge.net laboratory infrastructure.

Bishop suggested that the Bitcoin Forum should not be restricted to one specific platform, indicating that there are several other platforms in which Bitcoin development is discussed, including Github and a decentralized social network of NOSTTR.

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