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Last push: Sep 19, 2026, 04:12 PM
A Glassnode and Bybit report found Bitcoin climbed 24.6% in five August days even as active leverage fell, with short positions supplying 89% of every liquidated dollar.
The Zcash ETF is splitting its shares three ways after pulling in more than $233 million in under a month, as Wall Street piles into crypto's hottest privacy trade.
The network's clock just sped up again, but the extra speed goes to freshness, not capacity.
The filing seeks CFTC approval for contracts giving US traders 24/5 leveraged exposure to individual stocks without ownership.
A new upgrade would cut Zcash block time from 75 seconds to 25, while quietly rewriting how the network pays for its own security after 2031.
This week’s newsletter summarizes an analysis of mining pool difficulty controllers stranding slowed miners, describes a proposed improvement to Utreexo’s initial block download, and links to a draft BIP for specifying unspendable taproot internal keys. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Adam Gibson and Rob Segers to discuss Newsletter #422.
This week’s newsletter describes a proposed protocol for probabilistic coinjoins disguised as covert bets and summarizes benchmarks of a silent payments indexing server against compact block filters for light clients. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by average_gary, Erick Cestari, Conduition, and Greg Sanders to discuss Newsletter #421.
This week’s newsletter describes an idea for pools to pay miners using silent payments in the coinbase transaction and summarizes the responsible disclosure of a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting older versions of Core Lightning. Also included are our regular sections summarizing proposals and discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
Bitcoin Core version 29.4 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 29.4 released was originally pub…
Bitcoin Core version 30.3 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 30.3 released was originally pub…
Bitcoin Core version 31.1 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 31.1 released was originally pub…
We have become aware of a privacy bug in the -privatebroadcast feature, newly introduced in Bitcoin Core 31.0, that may cause the originator’s IP address to be revealed to the receiving peer under certain network conditions. A fix is forthcoming and will be released with 31.1. Users of -privatebroad…
After Bitcoin Core 0.14.0 and before Bitcoin Core 29.0, validating a specially-crafted block may cause the node to access previously freed memory. During validation, necessary data required for checking inputs for each transaction is pre-calculated and cached. For specially crafted invalid blocks, i…