How Bitcoin's P2P Layer Got a Speed Hike in the Latest Core Release
“Satoshi left us with a monolithic blob of a codebase.” That was bitcoin developer Cory Fields’ way of saying that, despite the innovation it’s often credited with, Bitcoin Core's code is kind of a mess behind the scenes. It’s a problem Fields and others have been grappling with since at least 2015, when he presented his plans to move around one piece of the code: the peer-to-peer layer. The problem developers often encounter is that the components are not all neatly separated. So, if developers change something that’s only supposed to impact one portion of bitcoin and how it functions,....
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Lately, the community has been keeping a warm discussion around what should be the updates implemented to the bitcoin core. Many developer teams have been presenting and working on their own versions of the new release. Now a new Bitcoin Core Candidate Release has been announced and Binaries for the Bitcoin Core version 0.11.2rc1 are now available. Release candidates are test versions for releases that are launched in beta versions to be tested. This is a release candidate for a new version release to update the bitcoin core software. It aims to implement security and bug fixes, the BIP65....
Bitcoin Core 0.12.1 was released early this morning and the update includes several changes that have huge implications for Bitcoin scalability. The release deploys the first soft fork on the Bitcoin network to use the methodology outlined in BIP 9 (Version Bits), which allows multiple soft forks to take place at the same time. The three BIPs (BIP 68, BIP 112 and BIP 113) included in Bitcoin Core 0.12.1 have huge implications for the Lightning Network, which many believe to be Bitcoin’s best chance for long-term scalability. Although the code for the soft fork has been deployed, miners....
The Bitcoin Core development team released the newest version of the main Bitcoin implementation, Bitcoin Core, on July 12. Bitcoin 0.11.0 includes several improvements over older versions, making the software easier to use and better adapted to current network needs. One significant addition to this latest release of Bitcoin Core is the option of block file pruning. In essence, this allows users to rid their version of Bitcoin Core from all data included in older blocks that aren't necessary to run a full node. As such, it is no longer needed to locally store the full blockchain, but....
Blockchain applications platform Lisk has announced it has successfully completed a total revamp of its core software. Releasing version 0.6.0, which features the latest LTS Node.JS 6.9 release tree and comprises multiple security and stability updates, developers said these factors were a top priority going forward. “Utilizing the latest Node.JS LTS release aligns with our mission to ensure maximum stability and security for the Lisk Core - a top priority for us,” Lisk Foundation President Max Kordek said in a press release. “Our latest version 0.6.0 will allow for further significant....
This episode of "The Van Wirdum Sjorsnado" covers the latest major release of the Bitcoin Core software and its most important changes. The post Discussing Bitcoin Core 0.21.0 appeared first on Bitcoin Magazine.