A very pleasant surprise from @0xB10C this morning on compact block reconstruction stats improving to 80% with the min feerate changes!
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- Fwiw, as somebody who is outspoken about digital privacy, I dislike seeing people prying into our personal lives just because we contribute to software that they use. That is distinct from transparency in the development process, which I think Core takes to the extreme and makesReplying to @Dennis_Porter_ @adam3us and 5 othersHey Dennis, as the co-organizer of most of the Bitcoin Core developer meetings in the last years, I can say there is no industry lobbying at these events. They are for the Bitcoin Core project contributors, not for industry. You can see all of the events, each events' sponsors,
- Bitcoin Core v29.1 is available. See release notes for more details. bitcoincore.org/en/2025/09/04/…A new release candidate of Bitcoin Core, v29.1rc2, is available for testing. This is a new minor release, and follows v29.0. Release notes: github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi… Binaries are available here: bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-co…
- Some people seem to have missed the summary accompanying the OP_RETURN defaults increase, so I'll post it here again. It has absolutely nothing to do with *wanting* arbitrary data stuffed in the chain.
- Blahblah higher block relay latency. It means: - more stale blocks, hurting all miners but especially smaller ones - more reorgs, making payment confirmation more difficultCongrats sub-1sat/vb summer, you managed to wreck compact blocks.



