[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.21.0 released

2021-01-14 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 0.21.0 Release Notes Bitcoin Core version 0.21.0 is now available from: Or through BitTorrent:

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.20.1 released

2020-08-01 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 0.20.1 Release Notes Bitcoin Core version 0.20.1 is now available from: Or through BitTorrent:

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.20.0 released

2020-06-03 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 0.20.0 Release Notes Bitcoin Core version 0.20.0 is now available from: Or through BitTorrent:

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.19.1 released

2020-03-09 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 0.19.1 Release Notes === Bitcoin Core version 0.19.1 is now available from: or through BitTorrent:

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.18.1 released

2019-08-09 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
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[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.18.0 released

2019-05-02 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
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[bitcoin-dev] BIP proposal - addrv2 message

2019-03-05 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
See https://gist.github.com/laanwj/4fe8470881d7b9499eedc48dc9ef1ad1 for formatted version, Look under "Considerations" for topics that might still need to be discussed. BIP: ??? Layer: Peer Services Title: addrv2 message Author: Wladimir J. van der Laan Comments-Summary: No comments

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.17.1 released

2018-12-26 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bitcoin Core version 0.17.1 is now available from: or through BitTorrent:

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.17.0.1 released

2018-10-30 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bitcoin Core version 0.17.0.1 is now available from: or through BitTorrent:

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.17.0 released

2018-10-03 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bitcoin Core version 0.17.0 is now available from: or through BitTorrent:

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.15.2 released

2018-10-02 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
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[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.14.3 released

2018-10-02 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bitcoin Core version *0.14.3* is now available from: or through bitorrent:

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 released

2018-09-19 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
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[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.16.2 released

2018-07-29 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
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[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.16.1 released

2018-06-15 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
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[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.16.0 released

2018-02-26 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bitcoin Core version 0.16.0 is now available from: or through bittorrent:

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.15.1 released

2017-11-11 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
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[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.15.0 released

2017-09-14 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bitcoin Core version *0.15.0* is now available from: and Or through bittorrent:

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.14.2 released

2017-06-17 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
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[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.14.1 released

2017-04-22 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bitcoin Core version 0.14.1 is now available from: Or, by torrent:

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.14.0 released

2017-03-08 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bitcoin Core version 0.14.0 is now available from: Or from the torrent,

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.13.2 released

2017-01-03 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bitcoin Core version 0.13.2 is now available from: Or by bittorrent:

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Completing the retirement of the alert system

2016-09-09 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 12:42:30AM +, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev wrote: > The alert system was a centralized facility to allow trusted parties > to send messages to be displayed in wallet software (and, very early > on, actually remotely trigger the software to stop transacting). > > It

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.13.0 released

2016-08-23 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bitcoin Core version 0.13.0 is now available from: Or through bittorrent:

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.13.0 release candidate 3 available

2016-08-13 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Binaries for bitcoin Core version 0.13.0rc3 are available from: https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.13.0/test.rc3/ Source code can be found on github under the signed tag https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v0.13.0rc3 This is a

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.13.0 release candidate 2 available

2016-07-31 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Binaries for bitcoin Core version 0.13.0rc2 are available from: https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.13.0/test.rc2/ Source code can be found on github under the signed tag https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v0.13.0rc2 This is a

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.12.1 released

2016-04-15 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bitcoin Core version 0.12.1 is now available from: Or through bittorrent:

[bitcoin-dev] Proposed release schedule 0.13.0

2016-03-14 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
Proposed release schedule for 0.13.0: 2015-05-01 --- - Open Transifex translations for 0.13 - Soft translation string freeze (no large or unnecessary string changes until release) - Finalize and close translations for 0.11 2015-05-15 --- - Feature freeze (bug fixes only until

[bitcoin-dev] IRC meetings moved to #bitcoin-core-dev

2016-03-01 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
It seems that MeetingBot was deactivated in #bitcoin-dev, so the last two weeks the weekly developer meeting (Thursday 19:00-20:00 UTC) was held in #bitcoin-core-dev. Let's keep it at that. Wladimir ___ bitcoin-dev mailing list

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 release candidate 5 available

2016-02-15 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Binaries for bitcoin Core version 0.12.0rc5 are available from: https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.12.0/test/ Source code can be found on github under the signed tag https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v0.12.0rc5 This is a

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 release candidate 3 available

2016-02-05 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Binaries for bitcoin Core version 0.12.0rc3 are available from: https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.12.0/test/ Source code can be found on github under the signed tag https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v0.12.0rc3 This is a

Re: [bitcoin-dev] What is OpenSSL still used for?

2016-01-25 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
> > In the release notes for 0.12, it says that we have moved from > > using OpenSSL to libsecp256k1 for signature validation. So what > > else is it being used for that we need to keep it as a dependency? > > Openssl was dropped from the consensus layer (ECC) in 0.12, though, it > still used

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 release candidate 1 available

2016-01-25 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
> > So I'm interested whether this limitation has been lifted, and the whole > feature is considered as finished. Yes, it's exactly that limitation that has been lifted! > If yes, I would highly recommend advertising it in the new release notes - as > said, the disk space reduction is a big

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 release candidate 2 available

2016-01-25 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Binaries for bitcoin Core version 0.12.0rc2 are available from: https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.12.0/test/ Source code can be found on github under the signed tag https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v0.12.0rc2 This is a

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 release candidate 1 available

2016-01-18 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 11:57:28PM +0100, xor--- via bitcoin-dev wrote: > On Sunday, January 17, 2016 11:08:08 AM Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin- > dev wrote: > > Preliminary release notes for the release can be found here: > > > > https://github.com/bitco

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 release candidate 1 available

2016-01-17 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Binaries for bitcoin Core version 0.12.0rc1 are available from: https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.12.0/test/ Source code can be found on github under the signed tag https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v0.12.0rc1 This is a

[bitcoin-dev] Weekly developer meetings over holidays

2015-12-22 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
Next two weekly developer meetings would fall on: - Thursday December 24th - Thursday December 31th In my timezone they're xmas eve and new year's eve respectively, so at least I won't be there, and I'm sure they're inconvenient for most people. So: let's have a two week hiatus, and continue

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Capacity increases for the Bitcoin system.

2015-12-08 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
On Mon, Dec 07, 2015 at 10:02:17PM +, Gregory Maxwell via bitcoin-dev wrote: > The Scaling Bitcoin Workshop in HK is just wrapping up. Many fascinating > proposals were presented. I think this would be a good time to share my > view of the near term arc for capacity increases in the Bitcoin

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.11.2 released

2015-11-15 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
; make everyone think the new message was genuine. Maybe Wladimir made an > edit after the signature was attached. Or maybe it got changed when it > went through the email system. It would be nice to know. Anyway, I fell > back on Windows security and ran the install because it said it verifi

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.10.4 release candidate 1 available

2015-11-10 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Binaries for bitcoin Core version 0.10.4rc1 are now available from: https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.10.4/test/ Source code can be found on github under the signed tag https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v0.10.4rc1 This is a

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.11.2 release candidate 1 available

2015-11-09 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Binaries for bitcoin Core version 0.11.2rc1 are now available from: https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.11.2/test/ Source code can be found on github under the signed tag https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v0.11.2rc1 This is a

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.10.3 released

2015-10-15 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bitcoin Core version 0.10.3 is now available from: This is a new minor version release, bringing security fixes and translation updates. Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github:

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Memory leaks?

2015-10-14 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 02:56:08PM -0700, Jonathan Toomim (Toomim Bros) via bitcoin-dev wrote: > I just noticed that several of my running bitcoind processes were using > around 3+ GB of RAM, even though the mempool itself seemed to be under > control. > > @prime:~/bin$ ./bitcoin-cli

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.11.1 release candidate 2 available

2015-10-12 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bitcoin Core version 0.11.1 release candidate 2 is now available from: This is a release candidate for a new minor version release, bringing security fixes. (release candidate 1 was never

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.10.3 release candidate 2 available

2015-10-12 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Bitcoin Core version 0.10.3 release candidate 2 is now available from: (release candidate 1 never had binaries available) This is a release candidate for a new minor version release, bringing

[bitcoin-dev] ALERT: Vulnerability in UPnP library used by Bitcoin Core

2015-10-12 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 TL;DR disable UPnP in Bitcoin Core as soon as possible, if you still have it enabled. Upgrading to 0.11.1rc2 or 0.10.3rc2 will also solve the issue, as they bundle a newer libupnpc (as well as disable upnp usage by default.) However these

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Fwd: Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 release schedule

2015-10-01 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
On Thu, Oct 01, 2015 at 11:41:25AM +0200, Marcel Jamin wrote: > I guess the question then becomes why bitcoin still is <1.0.0 I'll interpret the question as "why is the Bitcoin Core software still <1.0.0". Bitcoin the currency doesn't have a version, the block/transaction versions are at v3/v1

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 release schedule

2015-10-01 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 05:57:42PM +, Luke Dashjr wrote: > On Thursday, September 24, 2015 11:25:56 AM Wladimir J. van der Laan via > bitcoin-dev wrote: > > 2015-12-01 > > --- > > - Feature freeze > > Where is "Consensus freeze"? Shou

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Let's deploy BIP65 CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY!

2015-09-29 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 02:50:31PM -0400, Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev wrote: > It's time to deploy BIP65 CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY. There appears to be common agreement on that. The only source of some controversy is how to deploy: versionbits versus IsSuperMajority. I think the versionbits proposal

Re: [bitcoin-dev] 2015-09-24 #bitcoin-dev Weekly Development Meeting Minutes

2015-09-28 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
Hello Daniel, On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 05:29:02PM -0700, Daniel Stadulis via bitcoin-dev wrote: > If you weren't able to attend the first, weekly development meeting, the > following are the minutes: Thanks for writing up the meeting minutes and posting them to the list! We should probably put

[bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 release schedule

2015-09-24 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
Hello all, The next major release of Bitcoin Core, 0.12.0 is planned for the end of the year. Let's propose a more detailed schedule: 2015-11-01 --- - Open Transifex translations for 0.12 - Soft translation string freeze (no large or unnecessary changes) - Finalize and close translation

[bitcoin-dev] Weekly development meetings on IRC: schedule

2015-09-22 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
Hello, There was overwhelming response that weekly IRC meetings are a good thing. Thanks to the doodle site we were able to select a time slot that everyone (that voted) is available: Thursday 19:00-20:00 UTC, every week, starting September 24 (next Thursday) I created a shared Google

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Weekly development meetings on IRC

2015-09-22 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 03:51:29PM +0200, gb wrote: > > Although the planning for this a bit far along now, one consideration I > might add from experience on working with other transglobal IT projects Nah, we can always change the scheduling later... But let's first try it out with one time.

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Weekly development meetings on IRC

2015-09-21 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 03:07:10AM +0200, Wladimir J. van der Laan wrote: > Hello, > > At Monday's code sprint we had a good idea to schedule a regular developer > meeting in #bitcoin-dev. > > Attendance is of course voluntary, but it may be good to have a time that > many people are expected

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Open Block Chain Licence, BIP[xxxx] Draft

2015-09-01 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 02:30:17PM +0100, Ahmed Zsales via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Hello, > > We believe the network requires a block chain licence to supplement the > existing MIT Licence which we believe only covers the core reference client > software. As long as it's an open system, one can't

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Your Gmaxwell exchange

2015-09-01 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 01:55:43PM -0500, Justus Ranvier via bitcoin-dev wrote: > * They should own their bitcoins, meaning that they retain exclusive > control over their balances. Even more precisely, the network must > always honour the conditions of the scripts associated with unspent

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Censorship

2015-08-31 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 01:03:33PM -0500, sisadm101--- via bitcoin-dev wrote: > is from a one sided point of view? There doesn't seem to be a solution at > this time, but I find it dissapointing that many (in this very email list) Please, this has drifted so far from the goal of this list:

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Revisiting NODE_BLOOM: Proposed BIP

2015-08-24 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
NODE_BLOOM is distinct from NODE_NETWORK, and it is legal to advertise NODE_BLOOM but not NODE_NETWORK (eg for nodes running in pruned mode which, nonetheless, provide filtered access to the data which they do have). But is this useful without having decided on a way to signal which blocks

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Revisiting NODE_BLOOM: Proposed BIP

2015-08-24 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 06:15:39PM +, Eric Lombrozo via bitcoin-dev wrote: It would be very useful to not only be able to switch filtering on and off globally...but to be able to switch on a per-connection basis. But then You don't necessarily need to send everyone the same nServices bits.

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Libconsensus separated repository (was Bitcoin Core and hard forks)

2015-07-28 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 04:30:06PM +0200, Jorge Timón via bitcoin-dev wrote: I think there were some misunderstandings in our previous conversation about this topic. I completely agree with having a separated repository for libconsensus (that's the whole point, alternative implementations can

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Libconsensus separated repository (was Bitcoin Core and hard forks)

2015-07-28 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 11:40:42PM -0700, Eric Voskuil via bitcoin-dev wrote: It's a performance sacrifice, and then there's the OpenSSL dependency, but these are both optional within our stack - so the application developer has the option. So the only downside is that we are maintaining the

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Bitcoin Core and hard forks

2015-07-27 Thread Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-dev
Eric Voskuil, Alice Larson, others: Personal attacks or bullying of any kind are not tolerated on this mailing list. This list is meant to be a low-volume community for technical proposals and discussion regarding Bitcoin. See the archive for say, 2012, for example. What Peter Todd or anyone