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I have to wonder if they just wanted the domain name for something else, as they have burned everything else down.

But even then, was all the BS and pissing people off necessary?

I think some p2p tools used bots on freenode to cope with network partitions? I can't remember if bitcoin was one.

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.