Bitcoin Core disclosed a use-after-free bug that could have let miners crash nodes and potentially execute remote code.
Email activity, number of unique developers, and number of lines of code changes all increased in 2025 compared to declines in prior years.
After this month's v30 update to Bitcoin Core, some developers are considering a temporary soft fork to tamp down on arbitrary data, like inscriptions.
31 Bitcoin Core developers recently released an open letter arguing against relayers filtering out non-standard transactions as a decentralization risk.