Bitcoin core

Bitcoin Core’s maintainer system began with Satoshi Nakamoto merging every commit himself. Today, trusted key holders like Ava Chow, Gloria Zhao and the newly added TheCharlatan control merges to the master branch—ensuring the $2T+ network’s stability through merit-based consensus.

This Wednesday, Bitcoin developers will demonstrate "attack blocks" taking advantage of a consensus vulnerability on the Signet test network.

From The Core Issue: A look at Cluster Mempool, a rearchitecting of how your node's mempool is organized and managed.

The Bitcoin whitepaper is clear about Bitcoin’s core feature: it is permissionless. Anyone in the world can pay anyone by joining the peer-to-peer network...

First ever external security audit of Bitcoin Core by Quarkslab, funded by Brink, shows no critical or severe security issues.

The OP_RETURN debate splits Bitcoin users: Bitcoin Core 30.0 supports bigger OP_RETURNs, while Bitcoin Knots pushes back, fearing spam, rising fees, and regulatory risks.

Knots proponents claim to be supporters of Bitcoin's decentralization and its use as censorship resistant money, but their actions do not align with that claim.

Bitcoin Core isn't trying to force anything onto anyone, they are simply reacting to the potential harm caused by other users.

A talk with Bitcoin Core developer Sjors Provoost about how the project is organized, and what it's like to contribute to it.

17-year-old Ishaana Misra was awarded Chaincode Labs' inaugural Bitcoin Scholarship, making her the youngest ever contributor to Bitcoin Core.