Bitcoiner speculates ‘massive’ bot spam briefly took down Bitcoin mailing list

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One of Bitcoin’s key communication tools used to discuss potential protocol changes was knocked out for several hours starting on April 2, with one moderator speculating it may have been a targeted attack assisted by bots. For several hours across April 2 and 3, Bitcoin core developers and researchers were unable to interact on Google Groups after Google banned the group for spam. “Bitcoin Development Mailing List has been identified as containing spam, malware, or other malicious content,” Google’s warning stated at the time.

It might have just been someone clicking those links on a massive scale to report it.”Google Workspace Support’s X account confirmed that the issue had been resolved on April 3 at 2:23 am UTC in response to one of the Bitcoin mailing list’s other moderators, Ruben Somsen.

Source: GoogleBitcoin Core developer Bryan Bishop told Cointelegraph that the ban may have been triggered by individuals or bots mass-reporting the Bitcoin mailing list from multiple accounts.

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Author / Journalist: Cointelegraph by Brayden Lindrea

Category: Crypto

Markets: United StatesMali

Topics: Groups Hours Moderator Bitcoin Discuss Email Been Google Development List Mailing

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Published On: 2025-04-03 @ 06:15:54 (1 days ago)

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