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Bitcoin Capacity Increases FAQ

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Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 Released!

We're very excited to announce the official release of Bitcoin Core v0.12.0. A lot of hard work has gone into this release and it may just be the biggest one ye

Clarifying Communications

Where to find official information about Bitcoin Core and how you can interact with other Bitcoin Core users and developers.

Keep updated!

In an effort to increase communications, we are now providing opt-in, _announcement-only_ information for users of Bitcoin Core to receive notifications of secu

Bitcoin Core 0.12.1 Released!

We are pleased to announce the release of Bitcoin Core 0.12.1. This maintenance update includes the first soft fork deployment utilising version bits

Compact Blocks FAQ

Compact block relay, BIP152, is a method of reducing the amount of bandwidth used to propagate new blocks to full nodes.

Version bits FAQ for miners

The "version bits" BIP9 system is a way to introduce backward compatible rule changes to the Bitcoin consensus rules, known as a soft fork.

New Repository Maintainer Appointed

Hereby I'm announcing Marco Falke as the new Testing & QA maintainer for Bitcoin Core. Testing and QA has always been essential to this project, and with the g

Segregated witness: the next steps

Segregated witness (segwit) is approaching release. This post provides some background information, details about how segwit was tested, information about how

Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 Released

Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 is now available with a fix for a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting earlier versions of Bitcoin Core.

Bitcoin Core 0.17.0 Released

We're pleased to announce the release of Bitcoin Core 0.17, a major new version containing many new features as well as bug fixes and other improvements.