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  • Bitcoin OptechNews

    Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #395

    This week’s newsletter describes a standard for verifying VTXOs across different Ark implementations and links to a draft BIP for expanding the miner-usable nonce space in the block header’s nVersion field. Also included are our regular sections with descriptions of discussions about changing consensus, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and summaries of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin OptechNews

    Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #394

    This week’s newsletter looks at a proposed BIP for including supplemental information with output script descriptors. Also included are our regular sections summarizing popular questions on the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing recent changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin OptechNews

    Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #393 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Misha Komarov, Erik De Smedt, and arbedout to discuss Newsletter #393.

  • Bitcoin OptechNews

    Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #393

    This week’s newsletter summarizes a discussion about recent OP_RETURN usage and describes a protocol to enforce covenant-like spending conditions without consensus changes. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing recent merges to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin CoreOfficial

    Bitcoin Core 29.3 released

    Bitcoin Core version 29.3 is now available for download . See the release notes for more information about the bug fixes in this release. If you have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom ( IRC , web ) and we’ll do our best to help you. Bitcoin Core 29.3 released was originally pub…

  • Bitcoin CoreOfficial

    Bitcoin Core 30.2 released

    Bitcoin Core version 30.2 is now available for download . See the release notes for more information about the bug fixes in this release. If you have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom ( IRC , web ) and we’ll do our best to help you. Bitcoin Core 30.2 released was originally pub…

  • Bitcoin CoreOfficial

    Bitcoin Core 30.1 released

    Bitcoin Core version 30.1 is now available for download . See the release notes for more information about the bug fixes in this release. If you have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom ( IRC , web ) and we’ll do our best to help you. Bitcoin Core 30.1 released was originally pub…

  • Bitcoin CoreOfficial

    CVE-2025-46597 - Highly unlikely remote crash on 32-bit systems

    Disclosure of the details of a bug on 32-bit systems which may, in a rare edge case, cause the node to crash when receiving a pathological block. This bug would be extremely hard to exploit. A fix was released on October 10th 2025 in Bitcoin Core v30.0. This issue is considered Low severity. Details…