Bitcoin Core Developer Sjors Provoost: Bitcoin Core The Project
Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Core Developer Sjors Provoost: Bitcoin Core The Project While at the MIT Bitcoin Expo last month I was able to sit down with Bitcoin Core developer Sjors…
Youngest Ever Bitcoin Core Contributor Gets Bitcoin Scholarship
Chaincode Labs, a privately funded Bitcoin research and development centre based in New York City, has awarded its inaugural Bitcoin Scholarship to 17-year-old Ishaana Misra, the youngest contributor to Bitcoin…
The Consensus Conundrum
A lot of consensus-change proposals for bitcoin are on the table at the moment. All of them have good motivations, whether it’s scaling UTXO ownership or making self-custody more tractable.…
Does Jack Dorsey Influence Bitcoin?
Follow Vivek on X. I recently stumbled upon a fantastic report from 1A1z on “Funding Bitcoin.” I was surprised to learn that Jack Dorsey funds over 60% of Bitcoin Core’s…
Arthur Hayes’s Family Office Funds Bitcoin Core Developer
Maelstrom, the family office of Arthur Hayes, has awarded the first grant from its Bitcoin developer program to contributor Rkrux. The funding will support Rkrux working full-time on Bitcoin Core.…
Who Will Be The Next Spot Bitcoin ETF Issuer To Support BTC Developers After Bitwise And VanEck?
Of the 11 financial institutions that issued spot Bitcoin ETFs in January 2024, only two — Bitwise and VanEck — have pledged to donate a percentage of their profits to…
Fully Noded: The Basics and Benefits of Running a Bitcoin Node
Bitcoin is a decentralized and finite digital currency, it’s verifiable by anyone anywhere in the world. This is the chief reason people have any interest in holding it at all.…
Coming Soon: An Easier Way To Bootstrap Your Node’s UTXO Set
Yesterday marks coming up to the finishing line after almost four years of work. Assumeutxo was merged into the Bitcoin Core master branch by Andrew Chow yesterday. This is the…
Bitcoin Core Version 25.0 Released Bringing New Features And Transaction Use Cases
Bitcoin Core version 25.0 has been released, bringing new features, bug fixes and performance improvements to the software. Users can download the latest version from the official Bitcoin Core website…
Bitcoin Core Maintainer Marco Falke Announces His Intent To Step Down
The developer with the most changes to Bitcoin’s code has announced his decision to step down from the Core maintainer role. Bitcoin Core maintainer Marco Falke has announced he will…