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Latest Bitcoin Core stories
- Bitcoin Core Discloses Tor Bug That Gave Peers Whitelist Privileges on Thousands of Nodes
Only nodes with a nondefault `-whitelist` range covering their Tor daemon address were affected. Fixes shipped in versions 28.3, 29.2 and 30.0 in October 2025.
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- Bitcoin Core Discloses Three Fixed Vulnerabilities, One Affecting Mining
A high-severity flaw could leave miners unable to generate block templates.
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- Bitcoin Core Discloses Flaw That Could Halt Mining After Chain Reorg
The bug affected five releases across versions 28 and 29; Bitcoin Core fixed it in October 2025, and the affected versions have since reached end of life.
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- Bitcoin Core Flaw Can Halt Block Template Creation After Reorganization
The flaw affects Bitcoin Core 28.0 through 28.2 and 29.0 through 29.1. Fixed releases appeared in October 2025, more than a year before the details became public.
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- Bitcoin Core Discloses Bug That Could Repeatedly Stall Block Processing
The flaw could cause repeated 10-minute delays under specific peer or configuration conditions. Fixes are included in Bitcoin Core 30.0 and 29.2.
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- Bitcoin Core Developer Outlines Three Quantum-Theft Deterrents
Bitcoin Core developer Cory Fields’ concepts include cryptographic proofs, burning vulnerable Bitcoin (BTC) and third-party competition for attackers’ collateral.
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- Fields' Bitcoin Proposal Would Require Equal Collateral for Vulnerable Coins
The thought experiment would lock vulnerable coins and an equal BTC deposit for a waiting period of up to 30 days, including when owners make legitimate transfers.
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- Bitcoin Developer Sketches Post-Q-Day Collateral Rule for Vulnerable Coins
Bitcoin Core developer Cory Fields outlined a hypothetical rule that would require collateral for legacy Bitcoin (BTC) spends after a future “q-day” and activation of new validation rules. His 30-day waiting period is…
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- Matt Corallo Sees 80% Chance BIP-54 Becomes Bitcoin’s Next Soft Fork
The proposal targets four defects in Bitcoin’s consensus rules, while co-author Matt Corallo sees its deployment as a way to establish a process for future soft forks.
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- Raspberry Pi 5B Power Use Offers a $9 to $16 Bitcoin Node Benchmark
A Raspberry Pi 5B drew 5.54 watts idle and 10.31 watts in a one-hour stress test. The annual estimates use the August 2026 U.S. residential average and are not measurements of a Bitcoin node.
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- Why Bitcoin Core Began Retiring Satoshi Nakamoto’s Alert System 10 Years Ago
A shared signing key meant former holders could still send warnings, while a valid signature could not identify which holder sent one.
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- Bitcoin Core 32.1 Fixes Conditional IP Exposure in Private Broadcast
The update also changes mempool RPC fields, transaction defaults and peer limits. Its privacy fix applies only under a specific Tor and fallback-connection setup.
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- Bitcoin Core Discloses Three AI-Assisted Flaws Under Faster Policy
One flaw could exhaust memory and crash nodes running Bitcoin Core on Windows, macOS and BSD. Some 32-bit and FAT32 systems remain affected by a separate undo-file flaw.
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- Bitcoin Core Changes Security Policy as AI Speeds Up Bug Hunting
Casa Chief Security Officer Jameson Lopp said vulnerability discovery has accelerated exponentially over two and a half months and urged developers to build security into their development pipelines.
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- Bitcoin Transaction Records a 100-Byte Message in Block 971,914
The transaction paid 253 satoshis in fees and was included at 7:15:22 p.m. ET (23:15:22 UTC) on Oct. 17.
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- 43.6% of Peers Advertising Bitcoin Core Versions Ran End-of-Life Releases
An Oct. 18 snapshot counted 3,671 of 8,422 reachable peers on end-of-life releases. A policy change merged Oct. 22 calls for faster fixes to easily rediscovered flaws.
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- Bitcoin Core Speeds Fixes for Easily Discoverable Vulnerabilities
The policy calls for fixes across maintained major releases as soon as possible, with advisories issued alongside them. Other disclosure windows remain tied to severity.
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- AI accelerates bug hunting as Bitcoin’s cautious development draws praise
Shinobi says AI-driven bug hunting highlights Bitcoin Core’s cautious development, while decades of software flaws make the security transition difficult.
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- Bitcoin Core Contributor Examines AI and Quantum Risks to Security
Antoine Poinsot discussed Justin Drake’s viral post, potential quantum theft, proposed protocol changes and multisignature safeguards.
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- Bitcoin Core Merges Privacy Fix Into v32 as v31 Backport Stays Open
The fix changes how misbehaving private-broadcast peers are handled, while the 31.x backport remains unreleased with no confirmed release date.
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- Bitcoin Core 32.0 Targets Oct. 10 Release After Final Testing
The update adds faster fee estimation, multithreaded transaction retrieval and fixes a wallet-related security vulnerability affecting non-Windows systems.
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- Bitcoin Core 31.0 Privacy Feature Exposed IP Risk in Edge Cases
Bitcoin Core 31.0’s privatebroadcast feature exposed potential IP leaks in fallback scenarios, prompting a fix in version 31.1 to preserve Tor routing and protect user anonymity.
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