Watch 55 Fork 44 Code Issues 15 Pull requests 17 Activity Proposal for Assembly 2026: Disallow cryptocurrency projects #1254 Merged Gusted merged 1 commit from gusted/2026-assembly-cryptocurrency into main 2026-07-22 02:02:22 +02:00 AGit Conversation 28 Commits 1 Files changed 1 +1 -1 Gusted commented 2026-07-02 22:17:47 +02:00 Owner Copy link Context:
Gusted added 1 commit 2026-07-02 22:17:48 +02:00 Proposal for Assembly 2026: Disallow cryptocurrency projects ... 1eff5dbfcf Context: - https://forum.codeberg.org/d/82-taking-a-stance-against-cryptocurrency - Codeberg/Community#794 - Codeberg/Community#2184 camopants requested changes 2026-07-07 21:17:42 +02:00 camopants left a comment Copy link Need to be careful with wording like this. If you are going to provide examples you need to make it clear it is not an exhaustive list:
"Content that harms the reputation of Codeberg, such as - but not limited to - cryptocurrency related projects."
Copy link The text is now as-is because it was send out for votes. Small clarifications can be made afterwards by Presidium or Board. The whole spirit of the vote makes it clear this is a "not limited to" case.
gedankenstuecke referenced this pull request 2026-07-07 21:21:02 +02:00 Proposal Assembly 2026: ToU extension to prohibit LLM-extrusions #1253 johnnyjayjay commented 2026-07-09 10:40:14 +02:00 First-time contributor Copy link Is there a definition of "cryptocurrency-related" somewhere?
Copy link Please explain how do cryptocurrency projects harm codeberg's reputation
https://forum.codeberg.org/d/82-taking-a-stance-against-cryptocurrency "The page you requested could not be found."
Codeberg/Community#794 Codeberg/Community#2184 These domains are strongly associated with fraudulent activities and high-risk investments
Not all of them are about it. First of all, in context of so called code forges, this is a tech. What kind of headache do you have, that you judge the whole group by isolated cases, and block ANY such projects, even those that have real technical value?
Copy link When some projects were transferred over, you started behaving strangely.
Copy link While I respect this seems to have been a community decision (I also despise the amount of fraud coming from the crypto space), this does set quite a concerning precedent, and makes me a little nervous to continue recommending Codeberg.
Banning an entire category of software based on bad actors within that category is extreme, and prevents any healthy crypto projects from emerging here.
Copy link I'm working on a project aimed at bringing privacy, security, and autonomy to at risk people groups. The language in this motion means I can no longer host it here. Is this what the Codeberg community voted for? The short-sightedness and incompetency is mind blowing. What do you call it when a group of people come together to weaponize their hate against a whole category of developers? Anyone?
Copy link I don't even understand the logic behind this? Because some cryptocurrencies are shady and bad, every single crypto project should not be allowed onto Codeberg? What if someone is studying blockchains and want to implement their own crypto? This is extremely insane to me.
Copy link I'm sure you have some morally high reasons to stand against cryptocurrency, but the "illicit trade" and "evasion of sanctions" cited by sourcehut (since you seem to base your decision on it) are also what allows regular people, including LGBTQ+ people, living in sanctioned countries (which also, what a surprise, turn out to be unsafe for LGBTQ+ folk a lot of the time), to buy goods and send/receive money from abroad without being prosecuted by their governments (hi foreign agent laws! hi "extremism" and "terrorism" laws!).
I'm sorry, anti-war transgender person stuck in Russia, but from our moral stance, you shouldn't be able to purchase HRT from a lab using your XMR wallet. nor should your friend be able to pay for their foreign VPN VDS that they use to bypass the internet restrictions in USDT. the projects you used for this were hosted on Codeberg and not some other platform? well, too bad, they'll have to go someplace else that minds your existence or is welcoming to cryptocurrency as a whole, and you will wait. you and the tools you use will move to a greedy corporate hosting that is likely to impose its own restrictions on you in the future, or, even better, move to a less reliable self-hosted option, one per each tool to make it less maintainable and less accessible.
by taking this stance, at least from my perspective, you're just projecting your morally high delusion of dirty illicit 3rd world crypto scammers that are damaging the moral purity of Codeberg by... hosting code for their projects here?! which, mind you, almost all the time will just contain tools, tools to do good or bad. do you want to ban BitTorrent-related projects from Codeberg next because they are "mostly used to get illegal access to unlicensed digital goods and services (piracy)" and also take up world bandwidth and compute? how about banning YouTube downloaders after those? hey, let's make it clear that Codeberg will not stand a single repo on its platform that involves encrypted messaging: you know only criminals use Matrix, right?
Copy link The vagueness of the term "such as cryptocurrency related projects." has materially damaged Codebergs reputation in my eyes, and given the comments above, I am not alone. Therefore under its own construction that "Content that harms the reputation of Codeberg" should have been self defeating and not allowed under its own policy.
Examples of POTENTIAL "crytpocurrency related projects":
So The only safe policy is to assume that Codeberg is basically anti-cryptography. Because most all cryptography at some level of relationship becomes a "cryptocurrency related project".
And in who's view is the reputational damage judged? An opaque select committee? Corporate sponsors? The rule is simply political cover for Codeberg to say "We don't like you even though your code is legal, see our TermsOfUse which says, politically acceptable projects are OK, and we define what is politically acceptable, and whatever 'cryptocurrency related projects' mean are not politically acceptable, and so might other undefined stuff we haven't decided on yet."
Needless to say, I wont be adding any more projects to Codeberg and I will move away from it as a platform. To be clear none of them are "Cryptocurrency related" by my interpretation, but hey, I did make a CBOR toolkit, and Cardano, a cryptocurrency project, uses a lot of CBOR, so maybe that is "Cryptocurrency related"... Who's to know?
Copy link @stevenj wrote in #1254 (comment) :
And in who's view is the reputational damage judged?
community, lol. AFAIK, anyone could participate in that poll. so some random people that think "crypto is bad blah blah blah" can really ruin Codeberg's reputation by voting for banning crypto-related projects
Copy link @stevenj wrote in #1254 (comment) :
I did make a CBOR toolkit, and Cardano, a cryptocurrency project, uses a lot of CBOR, so maybe that is "Cryptocurrency related"... Who's to know?
to really push this joke further, let's go ban Zig as it is used by Solana validator software (the source of most rugpull memecoins)!
Copy link This is a fantastic improvement! Well done, Codeberg. I'm excited to participate in a platform that is willing to take an ethical stance, rather than succumb to a technolibertarian dystopia like we've been suffering through in other spaces for far too long.
Copy link This got posted to Hacker News , might be worth locking this thread to avoid off-topic discussion.
Copy link @tomodachi94 wrote in #1254 (comment) :
This got posted to Hacker News , might be worth locking this thread to avoid off-topic discussion.
Ah yes, the elites have spoken, and debate must not be allowed to continue by the plebians. Free speech and open debate are where bad ideas go to die. Clearly there's a thought bubble being protected here.
Copy link To be clear: I don't necessarily think this proposal was a good idea, I just don't think a flamewar is the best course of action here.
(To be super duper clear, for @jmgilman 's benefit: I am not a member of Codeberg e.V. and did not take part in this vote. I am not affiliated with Codeberg.)
Copy link There's a big difference between projects that are trying to harvest peoples money, and ones trying to secure peoples money. If there is no associated token or method of speculation, it can only be the latter. Also, Zig is basically the only programming language with secp256k1 in the standard library. This is the non-standard ecdsa curve Satoshi chose for Bitcoin, and is used almost exclusively for cryptocurrencies. For example, SSH cannot sign a Bitcoin transaction, because it implements the standard NIST-recommended P-256 curve
Copy link My DirectDemocracy project is a decentralized, emergent e-voting app that includes its own cryptocurrency (called drachma ). However, I consider it ethical for the following reasons:
The previous version of the project is described at directdemocracy.vote . Although the objectives remain the same, the new version, under development and currently hosted at codeberg, relies on a cryptocurrency: the drachma/misthos, which is a fundamental component of the system.
I would be extremely sad to have to leave codeberg, as I initially chose it for its ethical/political posture. I want this project to be fully independent from the billionaires who are controlling the people with AI/social networks, as DirectDemocracy offers a radically different vision for the future, based on the human rather than on the money. So github isn't an option for me...
Copy link @nekogirl wrote in #1254 (comment) :
And in who's view is the reputational damage judged?
community, lol. AFAIK, anyone could participate in that poll. so some random people that think "crypto is bad blah blah blah" can really ruin Codeberg's reputation by voting for banning crypto-related projects
Does the community vote for every projects removal?
Copy link I feel that this thread has gradually drifted off-topic and is on the verge of sparking an inflammatory debate.
I am not entirely familiar with the democratic process here, but are the internal voters of Codeberg e.V. required to justify their stances? Or are the voting results indisputable, irrevocable, and implemented immediately? Judging from the comments above, this could severely undermine the confidence of many valuable projects and their developers .
While I believe that banning scam projects of any kind is entirely reasonable, blanket banning an entire category simply because a few scams occurred within it might cause panic in the community: what's next? Will all LLM projects or metaverse-related ones (such as VR projects) be banned as well?
I believe it is crucial to draw a clear boundary here and explicitly inform the community about the exact nature of this proposal and which specific list of projects will be affected .
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Copy link I'm not yet a member of the non-profit, but i'm really glad LLM slop and cryptocurrency has been banned from codeberg. These projects are overall a net-negative for society (in orders of magnitude that we fail to comprehend). There's already many hosts online for such projects. I'm glad codeberg is standing for human-crafted projects with benefits for humanity, without pretending that technology is neutral. As much as it pains me, there's already so many places online where people can host cryptocurrency projects and LLM slop.
Of course crypto grifters are already taking positions like we're gonna ban sha256 next. While i would certainly appreciate more transparency in the moderation process (disclaime
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