John NewberyBuilding 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…Oct 17, 2017Oct 17, 2017
John NewberyinBitcoin Tech TalkWhat’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…Sep 18, 20172Sep 18, 20172
John NewberyinBitcoin Tech TalkWhat’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…Sep 17, 2017Sep 17, 2017
John NewberyinBitcoin Tech TalkWhat’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…Sep 16, 2017Sep 16, 2017
John NewberyinBitcoin Tech TalkWhat’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…Sep 15, 2017Sep 15, 2017
John NewberyinBitcoin Tech TalkWhat’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…Sep 14, 20172Sep 14, 20172
John NewberyinBitcoin Tech TalkAn introduction to Bitcoin Core fee estimationWhy we have feesSep 12, 20173Sep 12, 20173
John NewberyinBitcoin Tech TalkContributing 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…Aug 11, 20176Aug 11, 20176
John NewberyWhat 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…Jul 21, 20174Jul 21, 20174