Bitcoin Core update improves performance, privacy, and fee estimation without altering consensus rules. BIP324 (encrypted P2P) is partially implemented and available for testing. Taproot support is ...

A group of Bitcoin Core developers published an op-ed indicating their support for non-financial use cases. The article follows an announcement that Bitcoin Core will remove a data cap that restricts ...

Bitcoin Core 29.1 cut the default minimum relay fee from 1 sat/vB to 0.1 sat/vB, making Bitcoin transactions significantly cheaper while keeping DoS protection. Bitcoin’s core software lowered the ...

The developers of Bitcoin Core, the primary open-source software for connecting the blockchain behind the world's largest cryptocurrency, said October's version 30 release will increase the default ...

The OP_RETURN debate splits Bitcoin users: Bitcoin Core 30.0 allows data embedding, while Bitcoin Knots pushes back, fearing spam, rising fees, and regulatory risks. The debate is quite technical, ...

In a major update, the Bitcoin Core development team, which maintains the original Bitcoin software created by Satoshi Nakamoto, has expanded its group of trusted maintainers for the first time in ...