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BREAKING: jury awards massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group. Precedent-setting win against the notorious #Pegasus spyware maker. Congratulations to WhatsApp on sticking this case through since 2019. Some thoughts 1/

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There seem to be a lot of misunderstandings about the tradeoffs and risks of running Knots instead of Bitcoin Core, so I'll try to dispel as much as I can. If you want to make a well-informed decision before deciding to migrate to Knots, start here! Don't run code blindly, even

haha, but explains all the strangely persistent misinformation and accusations - bitcoin is winning too much? Politicians are pumping our bags, price is $100k again, Ross is free, even soft forks proposals are making progress… but twitter influencers need somebody to fight,

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This upgrade is a downgrade in security. 27.x is unpatched against CVE-2024-52919, as well as anything not-yet-disclosed, fixed in Core v28.x or v29.x. You should run whatever you want, but I'd advise against publicly announcing switching to software that can be crashed remotely.

Obviously crushing when some Core users don’t seem to value its reproducible + verifiable builds, agonizingly long review process, security policy, decentralized dev team, commitment to working in public. But if you don’t know why you were running Core in the first place, you

At River we will continue to run Bitcoin Core because it is the only properly maintained Bitcoin node software. The Bitcoin Core dev team is highly competent and dedicated to the long-term success of the network. The current state of the debate around OP_RETURN relay rules is

The Bitcoin Core project needs help on Transifex! Czech, Danish & Dutch translations are currently in poor shape. We’re looking for volunteer coordinators to help clean things up. DM me on Twitter, Transifex, or GitHub to get involved.

The "Mining Centralization Index" (with proxy pools) is now updated daily on mainnet-observer: mainnet.observer/charts/mining-…

Last week, ryanofsky hosted a Bitcoin Core PR Reviews meeting on one of the PRs in his almost decade-long multiprocess project adding a wrapper executable. Notes and the discussion log are available at bitcoincore.reviews and Stphnvlstk wrote a lovely summary for Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Core's supported features, including translations, come from the community. Please contribute translations and review - we frequently see scams, ads, and garbage stuffed into translation strings. Unfortunately, that often means removing translation updates wholesale. Devs

In case it wasn't already clear, this suggestion is the only PR that is open at the moment. #32406 changes the default -datacarriersize and leaves the config option intact.

Is Bitcoin ready for the quantum era? Read our report at: chaincode.com/bitcoin-post-q… ClaraS & deadmanoz explore the threats posed by cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs) and outline a strategic path forward. Here are the key takeaways: 🧵👇