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Re:Freenode commits suicide, is no longer a serious IRC network by swiley on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:32PM (#27510970)
I think some p2p tools used bots on freenode to cope with network partitions? I can't remember if bitcoin was one.
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Re:Freenode commits suicide, is no longer a serious IRC network by windsok on Tuesday June 15, 2021 @12:28AM (#27511300)
The original release of bitcoin from satoshi used the #bitcoin channel on freenode to find peers to connect to, this has long since changed though.
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