A Bitcoin-native LLM: dataset, architecture and open questions

The historical archives of bitcoin-related discussions on IRC are valuable resources for anyone looking to understand the early conversations and technical developments within the Bitcoin community. Notably, there are several repositories available that preserve these discussions from various periods. One such archive is maintained by Poelstra, which can be accessed at Poelstra's archive of *-wizards. Additionally, AJ Towns has compiled an archive specifically for bitcoin-core-dev discussions starting from 2015, available at AJ Towns' archive for bitcoin-core-dev.

Despite these resources, it is important to note that most available archives do not extend back beyond 2014-15. However, an exception to this is Bryan Bishop's comprehensive tarball archive, which covers discussions from bitcoin-dev, bitcoin-core-dev, and bitcoin-otc between 2010 and 2018. This archive is one of the few that reaches back to the earlier days of Bitcoin and can be found at Kanzure's archive tarball.

The availability of a queryable system that encompasses all historical Bitcoin discussions would greatly benefit researchers and enthusiasts. Although creating such a system presents challenges, advancements in large language models (LLMs) offer promising solutions to aid in parsing and understanding these extensive datasets.