Is a ‘Core of Bitcoin Core’ Hostile to Competing Code?
Developers recall a time when they were “all just developing for ‘Bitcoin.’” Many to this day make clear they don’t belong to any ‘team’ submitting protocol code per the ‘Bitcoin block size debate,’ and simply write code to be used in Bitcoin. Yet various camps, which on the outside seem to be competing with one another, submit code to be used by....
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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....
Even many of its members acknowledge Bitcoin Core has had a communication problem. The largely volunteer development team, which provides peer review and testing for the bitcoin network's underlying code, has been on the defensive following the decision by a former member to criticize the project for failing to take what he considered to be adequate measures to handle a greater volume of transactions. From there, the problem has only escalated. Feeling the pressure from a particularly negative news cycle, bitcoin businesses soon began looking to support proposals that offered what they....
Bitcoin Unlimited, hereinafter BU, appeared to suffer a second denial-of-service (DOS) attack Tuesday, node numbers plummeting by over 100 in minutes. According to reports, the sudden offlining was due to a second bug found following that which last week shut down 50 percent of nodes. The events appear to prove suspicions from Bitcoin Core developer Greg Maxwell, who at the time of the first shutdown said that BU included further bugs which “remain unfixed.” Fellow Core developer Peter Todd meanwhile highlighted the unusual behavior accompanying the bug and its patching by BU developers.....
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....