[MattGaiser]

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

[rambojazz]

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

[swiley]

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

[windsok]

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.