Saturday, January 16, 2021

Who said HODL for the first time?


December 18, 2013

This is how Hodl started, in a Bitcointalk forum post, by user GameKyuubi, he said why he was still "hodling" (unsold) in his post, "I AM HODLING", he already knew there was a misspelling, but decided that hodling was the best definition.

Since then, HODL has been used countless times to comment that in a price drop, don't sell, hold Hodl, or that the least risky way to own Bitcoin is with Hodl.

Friday, January 15, 2021

Bitcoin Core 0.21.0 was released

https://twitter.com/bitcoincoreorg/status/1349720304680054784

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-core-dev/2021-January/000097.html

New version 0.21.0 of the official Bitcoin client, we hope to see Taproot and Schnorr included soon, maybe the next update. It will undoubtedly be a great advance in scalability and privacy.

Notable changes 

P2P and network changes
Updated RPCs
New RPCs
Build System
Updated settings
Tools and Utilities
New settings

https://bitcoincore.org/en/releases/0.21.0/


Thursday, January 14, 2021

Bitcoin Development

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #131

This week’s newsletter describes a new proposed Bitcoin P2P protocol message, a BIP for the bech32 modified address format, and an idea for preventing UTXO probing in proposed dual-funded LN channels. Also included are our regular sections with the summary of a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, a list of releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.


 

 

 

News

Proposed disabletx message
Bech32m Pieter Wuille
LN dual funding anti UTXO probing

Releases and release candidates

Bitcoin Core 0.21.0rc5
LND 0.12.0-beta.rc5

Notable code and documentation changes

Notable changes this week in Bitcoin Core, C-Lightning, Eclair, LND, Rust-Lightning, libsecp256k1, Hardware Wallet Interface (HWI), Rust Bitcoin, Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs), and Lightning BOLTs.

Bitcoin Core #18077 introduces support for a common automatic port forwarding protocol, NAT-PMP (Network Address Translation Port Mapping Protocol).
Bitcoin Core #19055 adds the MuHash algorithm so that future PRs can use it for planned features.

As always, Bitcoin Optech Newsletter offers us an interesting reading of the proposals and advances of the Bitcoin environment, more information on its page with the complete content.

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #131