Key metrics tracking the development of Bitcoin Core show 2025 was a good year for the blockchain, with more developers contributing more code, says Jameson Lopp. Bitcoin developers working on the ...

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Bitcoin's core infrastructure is continually being re-engineered with each Bitcoin blockchain upgrade. Consequently, these upgrades alter how Bitcoin is traded and how it moves throughout the market.

Mark Karpelès thought he had a reasonable ask. The former CEO of defunct exchange MtGox, operating under his GitHub handle MagicalTux, submitted a pull request to Bitcoin Core over the weekend ...

Bitcoin’s supply cap is enforced by software and social consensus, not by immutable law. Bugs have tested that system before. The 2010 inflation incident was real and required a rollback, while the ...