“Pruning should arrive in Bitcoin Core 0.11, allowing people to run a full node with only 1 GB of storage space.” @pwuille
“Bitcoin Core 0.10 will track fee usage on the network & provide a feedback loop for fee estimation, essentially creating a market” @pwuille
While developing & testing libsecp256k1, @pwuille found a 12 year old bug in OpenSSL that affects 64 bit AMD CPUs when calculating squares.
“Trying to reimplement Bitcoin’s consensus rules is too risky, which is why we have developed libconsensus, a library of the rules” @pwuille
“Consistency is more important than correctness in consensus critical systems. The implementation IS the specification.” - @pwuille
“Headers first syncing reduces the importance of checkpoints. Checkpoints are not a security mechanism & should not be relied upon” @pwuille
Packed house @ SF Bitcoin dev meetup to hear @pwuille talk about the upcoming Bitcoin Core 0.10 release! pic.twitter.com/0pAIC44gCE