Bitcoin bug allowed miners to run code on other people’s nodes
A Bitcoin Core validation bug could have let miners remotely crash and execute operations on other people’s full nodes.
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Bitcoin Core promotes first Trusted Keys maintainer in three years
Senior Bitcoin developers have promoted TheCharlatan, aka "sedited," to Trusted Key holder with GitHub Commit access to Core’s master branch.
Dathon Ohm: the dev who wants to fork Bitcoin
Members of the Bitcoin community have made lighthearted attempts to de-anonymize Dathon Ohm, the author of the BIP 444 soft fork proposal.
Microsoft could stall Bitcoin development via GitHub
GitHub is a centralized forum and code repository that gives Microsoft substantial control over time-sensitive Bitcoin matters.
Cøbra warns that Knots could threaten Core’s reference status
This surprising warning from Cøbra, one of Bitcoin’s most loyal supporters, highlights the escalating tension over arbitrary data storage.
You can now spam JPEGs in Bitcoin private keys
BitMEX Research has invented a new method for storing spam data in Bitcoin transactions wholly outside of the popular OP_RETURN tool.
Bitcoin Core devs think it would be easy, and funny, to attack Knots
Prominent Bitcoin Core developers and influencers were laughing while describing a denial of service (DoS) attack against Knots nodes.
Bitcoin Core devs call dissidents ‘Knotzis,’ find bug in their software
The OP_RETURN war has degraded into childish rhetorical tactics, with Bitcoin Core devs laughing at Knots node operators.
Three sneaky changes in Bitcoin Core v30 are confusing node operators
Bitcoin Core v30 will dramatically raise the mempool storage allowance of nodes for arbitrary data unrelated to the on-chain movement of BTC.
Bitcoin devs warn of fork risk to miners as fees crash
Bitcoin mining pool operators achieved a dramatic reduction in minimum fees yet inadvertently shot themselves in the foot.