Indelible Publishes Reconstructable Monero Repository Mirror on BSV Blockchain

Software Preservation Watch / Data Infrastructure

In Brief

Indelible has published what it describes as a complete mirror of Monero’s Git repository history on BSV Blockchain using the open-source bgit format. The project reports preserving 13,241 commits together with 8,463 branches and release tags, then reconstructing the repository on a separate machine from public blockchain endpoints and obtaining an identical SHA-256 result. The archive is deliberately labeled an unsigned mirror so that preserving another project’s code does not imply authorship or endorsement by its maintainers.

News Report

Indelible has published a reconstructable mirror of the Monero core software repository on BSV Blockchain, demonstrating a method for preserving not only a source-code snapshot but the Git history required to rebuild the repository itself.

The archive was created using bgit, an open-source repository-preservation tool published by developer zcoolz. According to Indelible, the Monero archive contains 13,241 commits, 8,463 branches and release tags, and approximately 257 MB of repository data.

Indelible says the initial archive was written to BSV Blockchain in approximately 30 transactions, with the publication mined across blocks 962427 to 962429 on August 15.

The project then performed a separate reconstruction test. Using a fresh machine, public blockchain endpoints and an open reader, Indelible says it rebuilt the repository without requiring a proprietary plugin or access to the original publishing system.

The reconstructed data measured 69,600,118 bytes, and Indelible reports that its SHA-256 result matched the archived repository exactly.

That test is central to the project’s purpose. Storing files permanently is different from preserving a software repository in a form that can later be reconstructed with its development structure intact. Git repositories contain a graph of commits, branches, tags, objects and references that together describe how the code evolved rather than merely what the latest source files look like.

The bgit project is designed around that distinction. Its documentation describes a process for packaging Git repository data into blockchain transactions, publishing a manifest that identifies the repository contents, and later reconstructing the Git objects and references from the stored data.

The Monero publication is explicitly labeled an “UNSIGNED MIRROR.” That designation is intended to separate archival preservation from claims of ownership or authorship.

Indelible’s stated model allows anyone to preserve a public repository, but the person making the copy does not thereby become its recognized maintainer. The bgit design provides for a repository maintainer to sign the relevant reference manifest with their own key if they later wish to attest to the mirror themselves.

That creates a separation between two questions: whether the preserved data are reconstructable, and who is willing to attest that a particular archive represents an authoritative version of a project.

The official Monero repository remains the upstream development repository. The BSV Blockchain copy is therefore an independent archival mirror rather than a fork, replacement repository or Monero-endorsed publication.

BSV TIMES also inspected the Indelible explorer address supplied for the archive. The address currently shows 34 recent transactions, including transactions in the block range identified by Indelible. That total is higher than the approximately 30 transactions described for the original repository publication because the address has subsequently received additional activity.

The stated genesis transaction for the archive can also be inspected directly. It appears in block 962429 as an 876-byte transaction with an OP_RETURN output identified by the data marker b'git, alongside outputs associated with the repository address.

The demonstration follows a broader question posed publicly to the BSV Community: whether a complete external open-source repository could be preserved on BSV Blockchain in a form resistant to disappearance from conventional hosting infrastructure.

The answer demonstrated by bgit is not that GitHub or other repository hosts become unnecessary. Development platforms provide collaboration, issue tracking, pull requests, authentication and many other functions that blockchain storage alone does not replace.

Rather, the experiment addresses a narrower problem: whether the historical data required to reconstruct a Git repository can survive independently of the service that currently hosts it.

That distinction could matter beyond Monero. The same preservation model could potentially be applied to discontinued libraries, scientific software, public-sector code, historical open-source projects and other repositories whose long-term availability should not depend entirely on one hosting provider.

The current demonstration remains an early implementation. Its broader significance will depend on whether independent users can reproduce the reconstruction procedure, whether the format remains stable and documented, and whether tools outside the original Indelible environment can continue to read the archived repositories over time.

BSV TIMES Read

Immutable storage becomes more useful when the information placed on-chain can later be reconstructed into something operational rather than merely retrieved as isolated files. The bgit experiment applies that idea to software history: commits, branches, tags and repository structure are treated as preservable data, while the unsigned-mirror model separates permanence from authorship. The Monero repository is an attention-catching demonstration, but the more important question is general. If independently developed tools can reproduce complete software repositories from public BSV Blockchain data years later, the network begins to function not only as a place to publish information, but as a durable preservation layer for digital infrastructure itself.