Bitcoin Core’s Latest Release Is Out: Here’s What’s in It

Bitcoin Core’s Latest Release Is Out: Here’s What’s in It

These new features don’t grab headlines every day, but the improvements they make to the Bitcoin network’s privacy, tooling and complex transaction logic are building a stronger foundation.


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Bitcoin Core’s innovative solution designed to scale the Bitcoin network by moving witness data outside the traditional block structure is finally approaching its release. The Bitcoin Core team announced on Twitter that the Segregated Witness release is on its “final countdown,” with various tests and necessary information in place to upgrade the Bitcoin network. Segregated Witness is a sophisticated scaling technology designed to provide two major benefits to Bitcoin miners, users, and businesses: elimination of malleability and capacity increase. Initially, the Segwit proposal was....

Ready, Steady, Fork: Bitcoin Core to Release SegWit in November

Segregated Witness, Bitcoin Core’s innovative scaling solution, is expected to be released on November 15 2016, in Bitcoin Core’s 0.13.1 release. Bitcoin Core developer Pieter Wuille made the announcement in the Bitcoin-dev mailing list, in which he stated that BIP 141, or the SegWit soft fork proposal, could be activated on the 15th of November if the 95% hashpower validation threshold is reached. Wuille wrote: “Following the BIP9 recommendation to set the versionbits start time a month in the future and discussion in the last IRC meeting, I propose we set BIP 141's start time to November....

Senator Lummis Introduces Landmark Bitcoin Bill: Here’s What’s In It

The bipartisan Lummis-Gillibrand overhaul legislation has been introduced – here’s everything you need to know about the Bitcoin and crypto bill.

Dash’s ‘Core’ Team Fields User Questions in New Video Interview

Answering everything from “Will future Dash wallets be based on Electrum or QT?” to “What happens if Evan Duffield gets hit by a bus?” five Dash contractors — Ryan Taylor, Daniel Diaz, Evan Duffield, Holger Schinzel, and Robert Wiecko — recently gave an hour-long Q&A on DASH: Detailed. The full group interview is here: ‘Core’ Team Answers Your Questions. The five guests featured in this interview are Dash’s founder and lead developer, Evan Duffield; Dash’s “treasury guy” and financial planner, Ryan Taylor; business development manager Daniel Diaz; product manager Robert Wiecko; and....

Bitcoin Price Watch; Here’s What’s On This Morning

Here's a look at what we are focusing on in the bitcoin price this morning. Okay then. The middle of the week is here, and it’s time to take stock of what’s happened so far, and what is likely to roll out across the next couple of days. Things have been pretty up and down so far. We started out the week with some relatively flat action, but this matured into some volatility pretty quickly. The volatility, we were able to take advantage of, and we have managed to get in and out of the markets according to the rules of our strategy (primarily breakout) on a number of occasions so far. With....