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"Since Bitcoin is an electronic cash, it isn’t a generic database; the demand for cheap highly-replicated perpetual storage is unbounded, and Bitcoin cannot and will not satisfy that demand for non-ecash (non-Bitcoin) usage, and there is no shame in that." lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitc…

Thanks for contributing this b10c , it is really satisfying seeing the diagram grow as the PRs come in. github.com/bitcoin-core/g…

Remotely reachable assertion crash in Bitcoin Core <v25.0: bitcoincore.org/en/2024/10/08/… Very happy that this is finally public, please upgrade your nodes if you haven't already!

A new medium severity level advisory has been posted. Before Bitcoin Core v25.1, an attacker can cause a node to not download the latest block. bitcoincore.org/en/2024/11/05/…

If you're curious to see how far the #libbitcoinkernel project has come, pop by this Btrust workshop and use the (experimental) new library to find out how much easier data analysis has become. We'll build a tool to find out which TapScript OP_CODES are used most!

Merged PR from achow101: guix Notarize MacOS app bundle and codesign all MacOS and Windows binaries github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi…

No more checkpoints github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi…

Here is one simple thing you can do that would be very helpful to test the Bitcoin Core release candidate. At home, start bitcoind with the -natpmp option. Let it start and stop it. Check if it could successfully open a port on your router. You can check this by looking at the

⏩SwiftSync - smarter synchronization with hints Near-stateless, fully parallelizable validation. Validation is at the heart of Bitcoin. Optimizing performance is invaluable. It's fast. Early benchmarks show a 5.28x speedup (h/t Sebastian 🟩🥕) 👇Go read! gist.github.com/RubenSomsen/a6…

Multiprocess enabled binaries might be part of the next release x.com/BitcoinMerges/…

Bitcoin Core v29.0 – due for announcement shortly – is the first release to utilise the CMake-based build system. Here are a few handy tips I've found useful…

Bitcoin Core v29.0 was released! It is available from: bitcoincore.org/en/download/ Release notes: bitcoincore.org/en/releases/29…

This is the paper I found the most interesting on bitcoin data storage. The thesis I wrote was kind of similar, but this is arguably more concentrated and clearer: ledgerjournal.org/ojs/ledger/art… No amount of policy can stop fake key or fake hash commitment data embedding.

Now I hate NFTs even more.

github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi… The legacy wallet is no more

Cash on the internet. No auto-updates.

Which are you?

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