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The Core Issue: Outrunning Entropy, Why Bitcoin Can’t Stand Still

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From The Core Issue: A breakdown at the optimizations and fine-tuning done to speed up Initial Block Download for Bitcoin Core users.
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Bitcoin Has a Golden Opportunity With AI Agents, It’s Time to Build

Matt Corallo -
Bitcoin finally has a real payments advantage in the world of agentic payments. We all have to pitch in to capitalize on it.
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The Core Issue: Consensus Cleanup

Antoine Poinsot -
From The Core Issue: A look at BIP 54, a softfork proposal to fix four outstanding bugs in Bitcoin's core consensus protocol.
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Bitcoin Is The Collateral, It Just Needs The Credit Markets

David Seroy -
A deep look at the landscape of Bitcoin collateralized loans, and the cutting edge of technology that could rock the boat.
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The Core Issue: Why Bitcoin Needed A Remodel With Segwit and Taproot

Shinobi -
From The Core Issue: A look back at Segregated Witness and Taproot, Bitcoin's two largest upgrades, and why they were designed the way they were.
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The Core Issue: libsecp256k1, Bitcoin’s Cryptographic Heart

Sebastian Falbesoner -
From The Core Issue: The story of what started out as a "small hobby project" library, evolving into one of the most security-critical code paths for protecting a multi-trillion dollar asset.
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The Core Issue: Keeping Bitcoin Core Secure

Niklas Gögge -
From The Core Issue: a look at how Bitcoin Core handles security vulnerability disclosures, testing for bugs, and patching them.
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The Core Issue: Cluster Mempool, Problems Are Easier In Chunks

Shinobi -
From The Core Issue: A look at Cluster Mempool, a rearchitecting of how your node's mempool is organized and managed.
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Satoshi’s Exercise for the Reader

Gloria Zhao -
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...
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The v2 Transport: Bitcoin P2P Traffic Goes Dark

Pieter Wuille -
From The Core Issue: Learn about the v2 transport protocol upgrade from 2024 that aims to keep your nodes internet traffic private from snooping.
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Spark Explained Like You’re Five

Roy Sheinfeld -
A simple explanation of the cryptography underlying Spark, a layer 2 built using statechains.
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Brink Funds First Third Party Security Audit of Bitcoin Core By Quarkslab

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