John Newbery·Oct 17, 2017Building a stronger Bitcoin developer communityIn Summer 2016, I’d been interested in Bitcoin for a little over a year. I’d been slowly becoming more and more enchanted by this strange…
InBitcoin Tech TalkbyJohn Newbery·Sep 18, 2017What’s new in Bitcoin Core v0.15 — part 5This is the final article in this series about features and improvements in Bitcoin Core v0.15. Today I’ll talk about a small…A response icon2A response icon2
InBitcoin Tech TalkbyJohn Newbery·Sep 17, 2017What’s new in Bitcoin Core v0.15 — part 4In this series, I’ve already covered one performance improvement (per-output chainstate db) and a couple of user features (better fee…
InBitcoin Tech TalkbyJohn Newbery·Sep 16, 2017What’s new in Bitcoin Core v0.15 — part 3Yesterday, I wrote about how fee estimation is better in v0.15, but what happens if you send a transaction without enough fee to be…
InBitcoin Tech TalkbyJohn Newbery·Sep 15, 2017What’s new in Bitcoin Core v0.15 — part 2This article continues the series on enhancements and new features in Bitcoin Core v0.15. Yesterday I talked about a low-level technical…
InBitcoin Tech TalkbyJohn Newbery·Sep 14, 2017What’s new in Bitcoin Core v0.15 — part 1I’m very excited about the recent Bitcoin Core v0.15 release. This is the first major release that I’ve been involved in from start to…A response icon2A response icon2
InBitcoin Tech TalkbyJohn Newbery·Sep 12, 2017An introduction to Bitcoin Core fee estimationWhy we have feesA response icon3A response icon3
InBitcoin Tech TalkbyJohn Newbery·Aug 11, 2017Contributing to Bitcoin Core, a personal accountIn January of this year, I moved to New York to take a job contributing full time to open source Bitcoin projects. These are some of my…A response icon6A response icon6
John Newbery·Jul 21, 2017What did Bitcoin Core contributors ever do for us?This afternoon, I tweeted a response to the strange suggestion that we fire core. I’ve ignored the fact that Bitcoin Core isn’t a person or…A response icon4A response icon4
