Bitcoin turns 15 today, but was 30yrs in the making. We got really lucky with Satoshi in many ways, from the very beginning... 0/

If we socially lose the ability to make rational changes, Bitcoin has far worse problems. Socially attacking, urging rejection of security & robustness fixes from 200 most skilled people on the planet is itself an attack on Bitcoin. There are security fixes in v30.

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The Bitcoin Core development process and distribution model actually makes it somewhat harder to fix security issues, compared to other serious software distributors. Take Google Chrome as an example. The CVE fixing happy path is to develop and review a fix in private, push that

On why fixing security vulnerabilities in Bitcoin Core is hard, and comes with a number of tradeoffs. It is a difficult balance to strike between protecting users from developers (reproducible builds, no auto-update) and protecting users from attackers (covert security fixes).

Adriano Adam Back Oh, we had never thought about this! Thank you so much for your contribution. More seriously, see here for more about the tradeoffs of fixing security vulnerabilities in a software that underpins a $2T asset, developed in public. x.com/fanquake/statu…

Luke is unblocking, replying, and reblocking so that people can't correct him in thread. Such a weak move. The smarter thing to do is rebase on 30.0 as there are half a dozen security bug fixes in it. And also @lukedashjr should stop being silly and stop blocking TRUC lightning

Bitcoin_To_The_Oblivion funny how 14 years ago Luke was the one who they called a spammer learnmeabitcoin.com/explorer/tx/97…

Lots of cool stuff in the latest afl++ release, including IJON support!

More on vulnerabilities, the disclosure policy, and backporting security fixes to previous versions

David Freeman bitcoin uses assume valid since 2017, Luke Dashjr went back to checkpoints in knots?? just why. our boy's not doing so well lately...

I can attest she can already hodl.

Bitcoin Core v29.2 was released! It is available from: bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-co… Release notes: bitcoincore.org/en/releases/29…

If you prefer to wait before upgrading to 30.0 because of the recent controversy, consider upgrading to the latest bug fix release of 29.

We've released v29.2. If you're running a 29.x release, and not upgrading to 30.0 (waiting for a 30.1, BDB removal, API changes etc), you should consider upgrading to 29.2. A 28.3 release will also become available soon, likely later this week: github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi….

Greg Maxwell on the spam debate: «Bitcoin Core’s view (going all the way back to Satoshi, AFAICT) is that Bitcoin is a system secured by economics and self interest. The knotz vision of Bitcoin seems to be a system (in)secured by altruistic hope and populist theocracy– by

Good chat. The answer to “Are LLMs useful for fuzzing?” is ~Yes. They’ve been used at Brink to generate boilerplate, explore new approaches/tooling & generally experiment. Proving useful so far.

Running libbitcoinkernel.

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #376 is here: - shares an update on the proposal for nodes to share their current block template - summarizes a paper outlining a covenant-less vault construction - Bitcoin Core 30.0 release - Optech Newsletter #376 Podcast

Bitcoin Core 30.0 is the latest version release of the network’s predominant full node. Its release notes describe several significant improvements... bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters…