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Youngest Ever Bitcoin Core Contributor Gets Bitcoin Scholarship

[Dec 18 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 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…

Does Jack Dorsey Influence Bitcoin?

[Oct 24 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…

Arthur Hayes's Family Office Funds Bitcoin Core Developer

[Sep 17 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 Core Discloses Two Security Vulnerabilities

[Aug 1 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…

Fully Noded: The Basics and Benefits of Running a Bitcoin Node

[Apr 8 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…

Bitcoin Developer's Proposal to Stop 'Spam' NFTs Gets Shut Down

[Jan 9 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…

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…