Sebastian 🟩🥕 retweetledi
There sure has been a lot of *talk* about Bitcoin development these last 18 months. Meanwhile, there's been an awful lot of actual development work done. Examples of what Bitcoin Core has been working on throughout this all:
- a node that syncs in nearly half the time
- a path to 5x faster (SwiftSync)
- a new GUI to make running that node easier, maybe even on mobile
- a redesigned mempool with better fee bumping and fee estimates
- a mining interface so individual miners can build their own block templates (Stratum v2)
- a private broadcast so your transactions can't be traced to your IP
- a reproducible map of the entire internet for node eclipse attack protection
- a better way to relay time-sensitive Lightning and Ark transactions for confirmation
- a multisig that's cheaper, more private, and looks like any other payment on-chain (MuSig2)
- a private payment address with zero linkable payments (silent payments)
- a threshold (e.g. 3-of-5) signature scheme that looks like a single signature (FROST)
- a proposal to fix known protocol bugs and current attack vectors (BIP54)
- a slew of post-quantum research to be ready for future attack vectors
- a first-ever independent security audit for more eyes on the code
- a new tool that attacks a live node the way a real adversary would (Fuzzamoto)
- a fix that killed an entire class of disk-filling attacks
- a replacement for a risky external library
- a consensus engine the whole ecosystem can build on (Bitcoin Kernel)
Over a hundred contributors and more than a dozen funding organizations around the world. Not without controversy. Not without bugs. But undeniable progress.
August will come and go. This work will continue.
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