The Core Issue

From The Core Issue: A look at what Bitcoin Core developers do to ensure the software running on your computer is actually the code they wrote.

From The Core Issue: A look at what it takes to defend your Bitcoin node against the myriad of threats from the wider internet.

From The Core Issue: A breakdown at the optimizations and fine-tuning done to speed up Initial Block Download for Bitcoin Core users.

From The Core Issue: A look at BIP 54, a softfork proposal to fix four outstanding bugs in Bitcoin's core consensus protocol.

From The Core Issue: A look back at Segregated Witness and Taproot, Bitcoin's two largest upgrades, and why they were designed the way they were.

From The Core Issue: The story of what started out as a "small hobby project" library, evolving into one of the most security-critical code paths for protecting a multi-trillion dollar asset.

From The Core Issue: a look at how Bitcoin Core handles security vulnerability disclosures, testing for bugs, and patching them.

From The Core Issue: A look at Cluster Mempool, a rearchitecting of how your node's mempool is organized and managed.