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Bitcoin Core Developer Sjors Provoost: Bitcoin Core The Project
[May 2 10:39 PM] Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Core Developer Sjors Provoost: Bitcoin Core The Project While at the MIT Bitcoin Expo last month I was able to sit down with Bitcoin Core developer Sjors Provoost. Sjors is a physicist turned Bitcoin developer, which…
Youngest Ever Bitcoin Core Contributor Gets Bitcoin Scholarship
[Dec 18, 2024 1:04 PM] Chaincode Labs, a privately funded Bitcoin research and development centre based in New York City, has awarded its inaugural Bitcoin Scholarship to 17-year-old Ishaana Misra, the youngest contributor to Bitcoin Core in the technology's 15-year…
The Consensus Conundrum
[Nov 15, 2024 5:00 PM] A lot of consensus-change proposals for bitcoin are on the table at the moment. All of them have good motivations, whether it's scaling UTXO ownership or making self-custody more tractable. I won’t rehash them here, you’re probably already…
‘Just Don’t Break’ Bitcoin: Devs Debate Tech Upgrades to Top Crypto
[Nov 12, 2024 10:36 PM] The bitcoiners gathered at OP_Next were decidedly in favor of progress – but not too much progress, and certainly not too fast.
Does Jack Dorsey Influence Bitcoin?
[Oct 24, 2024 1:01 PM] Follow Vivek on X. I recently stumbled upon a fantastic report from 1A1z on "Funding Bitcoin." I was surprised to learn that Jack Dorsey funds over 60% of Bitcoin Core's development via different organizations: over $5 million annually, out of a…
Everything HBO’s Bitcoin doc got wrong about Peter Todd and Satoshi
[Oct 9, 2024 1:40 PM] HBO’s “Money Electric” suggests Bitcoin developer Peter Todd is Satoshi Nakamoto, but contradictions and timeline errors abound.
Arthur Hayes's Family Office Funds Bitcoin Core Developer
[Sep 17, 2024 11:35 AM] Maelstrom, the family office of Arthur Hayes, has awarded the first grant from its Bitcoin developer program to contributor Rkrux. The funding will support Rkrux working full-time on Bitcoin Core.Bitcoin relies on voluntary developers to maintain…
Bitcoin DeFi TVL will top Ethereum’s within 2 years: Core DAO contributor
[Sep 5, 2024 5:55 AM] Core DAO contributor Brendan Sedo says it’s a “no-brainer” that most of the $1 trillion dollars of capital in the Bitcoin ecosystem will make its way into sidechains and DeFi.
Bitcoin Core Discloses Two Security Vulnerabilities
[Aug 1, 2024 8:08 AM] The Bitcoin Core project has disclosed two security vulnerabilities that could have affected the stability of the Bitcoin network. The first one, classified as having a high severity level, could have caused an assertion crash of the network via a…
Arthur Hayes’ Maelstrom announces Bitcoin grant program of up to $250K per developer
[Jul 17, 2024 2:43 AM] The new Bitcoin grants program could invite more innovation for Bitcoin-native DeFi, or BTCFi.
Craig Wright admits he’s not Satoshi, issues disclaimer on his website
[Jul 16, 2024 12:24 PM] The Crypto Open Patent Alliance accused Wright of forgery in court and claimed that he “invented an entire biographical history.”
Bitcoin Core devs set up new policy aimed at handling ‘critical bugs’
[Jul 3, 2024 10:48 PM] Bitcoin Core developer Antoine Poinsot said there is a dangerous perception that Bitcoin Core is free of bugs, noting it is “dangerous and, unfortunately, not accurate.”
Bitcoin Core’s Latest Optech Newsletter Urges Upgrade to Version 25.0, Discusses New Vulnerability Disclosure Policy
Jack Dorsey-backed Bitcoin mining pool opens headquarters in El Salvador
[May 30, 2024 6:01 AM] Launched in late 2024, Ocean Mining has now established an international hub and headquarters in El Salvador’s capital city, San Salvador.
Jameson Lopp’s Bitcoin Testnet ‘Griefing’ Stirs Controversy
Will Bitcoin’s New BIP Editors Streamline Development?
[Apr 23, 2024 11:34 AM] Five new editors were added to help speed up the process of approving and merging Bitcoin Improvement Proposals.
Who Will Be The Next Spot Bitcoin ETF Issuer To Support BTC Developers After Bitwise And VanEck?
[Apr 12, 2024 1:22 PM] Of the 11 financial institutions that issued spot Bitcoin ETFs in January 2024, only two — Bitwise and VanEck — have pledged to donate a percentage of their profits to open-source Bitcoin development.Regardless of whether large holders are…
Fully Noded: The Basics and Benefits of Running a Bitcoin Node
[Apr 8, 2024 8:30 AM] Bitcoin is a decentralized and finite digital currency, it’s verifiable by anyone anywhere in the world. This is the chief reason people have any interest in holding it at all. No one can dilute the supply, no one can counterfeit Bitcoin, it just…
Satoshi-Era Bitcoin Function 'OP_CAT' Dusted Off as Development Fervor Grows
[Feb 14, 2024 6:11 AM] Developers Ethan Heilman and Armin Sabouri view OP_CAT as a simple opcode that offers some of the general purpose functionality currently missing in Bitcoin.
Steward of Bitcoin Software Explains Why She Nixed an Acrimonious Code Debate
[Jan 11, 2024 1:22 PM] "All it was doing was generating noise," the Bitcoin Core maintainer Ava Chow says of Luke Dashjr's pull request, which would have severely curtailed the use of Ordinals.
Bitcoin Developer's Proposal to Stop 'Spam' NFTs Gets Shut Down
[Jan 9, 2024 1:28 PM] Luke Dashjr's technical proposal sounded innocuous enough: to make the popular Bitcoin Core software "effective with newer datacarrying styles." In reality, the effort represented a sophisticated but controversial plan to block the suddenly popular…
VanEck to Donate 5% of BTC ETF Profits to Bitcoin Core Developers
[Jan 5, 2024 11:12 AM] The move is reminiscent of a similar pledge by VanEck to donate 10% of profits from its ether futures ETF to Ethereum developers in October last year.
Bitcoin Developer Luke Dashjr Registers Ordinal Inscriptions Workaround as a Vulnerability
[Dec 13, 2023 12:30 AM] Luke Dashjr, Bitcoin developer and CTO of Mummalin, has registered a method that allows Ordinal inscriptions to be saved on the Bitcoin blockchain as a code vulnerability. The vulnerability, CVE-2023-50428, states that “datacarrier size…
Bitcoin Core's 'v26.0' Upgrade Aims to Impede Eavesdropping, Tampering
[Dec 6, 2023 11:32 AM] The v26.0 upgrade contains experimental support for the v2 transport protocol as defined by Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 324 (BIP324).
Bitcoin Ordinals could be stopped if blockchain bug is patched, claims dev
[Dec 6, 2023 12:39 AM] A Bitcoin Core developer claimed Bitcoin Ordinals exploit a vulnerability allowing inscribers to bypass data size limits, which could soon be fixed.
Lightning Network faces criticism from pro-XRP lawyer John Deaton
[Oct 22, 2023 1:42 AM] John Deaton’s remarks come amid concerns about alleged backdoors in the Bitcoin Lightning Network’s code.
Bitcoin core developer steps back from Lightning Network over "hard dilemma"
[Oct 21, 2023 1:09 PM] Antoine Riard believes the Bitcoin community faces a "hard dilemma" as a new class of replacement cycling attacks threatens the Lightning Network.
Coming Soon: An Easier Way To Bootstrap Your Node's UTXO Set
[Oct 3, 2023 8:30 AM] Yesterday marks coming up to the finishing line after almost four years of work. Assumeutxo was merged into the Bitcoin Core master branch by Andrew Chow yesterday. This is the first major non-consensus update to the Bitcoin reference…
Disappearance of $900K Puts Focus on Vintage Bitcoin Project Libbitcoin
[Aug 13, 2023 8:01 PM] The issue, dubbed “Milk Sad,” was discovered in late July by information security firm Distrust.