Core Lightning v25.12 "Boltz's Seamless Upgrade Experience" is here! 🎉 New nodes open with BIP-39 12-word recovery phrases. Existing nodes maintain full backward compatibility. Major performance gains for large nodes and xpay improvements from user feedback. 📊⚡

Running nodes will become more expensive.

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Amazing that so many people (cough cough paid influencers) support contiguous arbitrary data on bitcoins forever blockchain.

Fully Noded not affected by Cloudflare down time, ever.

Stephan Livera Now answer my question, what is the incentive to relay unspendable outputs with large amounts of arbitrary data? Just actually explain what the economic incentive of that is (don't dodge it). I'm not asking whether you like spam or not, I'm asking about the economic incentive of

Polished the transaction creator today and started adding some basic “nodeless” functionality, ideal for newbs who just want an ultra simple single sig wallet. Seed generation, address derivation, transaction creation and signing all works 100% offline, put the device in

According to Dathon, one of these choices would get zero honest votes. 1. “Bitcoin is money, not data storage” 2. I support activation of “BIP-110: Reduced Data Temporary Softfork” due to the author’s stated motivation.

Quick reminder that Bitcoin Core is not Bitcoin, it was the reference client, and is discardable.

I don’t see anything contentious about bip110…. v30 was way worse.

If you want to run BIP110 you can do so here: bitcoinknots.org/files/29.x/29.…

Fully Noded Server makes it easy! fullynoded.app/wp-content/upl…

Bitcoin Core is putting opcodes in that have zero known use cases today… That is insane.

This is the best technical article covering Taproot. learnmeabitcoin.com/technical/upgr…

If inscription UTXOs under 1k sats were removed from the UTXO set we would remove 38% of the memory being used by Bitcoin clients to store the UTXO set. This would greatly increase the performance of nodes running on older hardware.

Why don’t people like BIP110? I haven’t heard a reasonable explanation.

Who thought it was a good idea to allow a possible 340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456 scripts in a taproot script tree? Or is Luke wrong?

People getting paid to change bitcoin, want to change bitcoin... What a shocker.