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The Core Issue: Beneath The Binary, Verifying Trust

Mike Schmidt -
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.
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The Core Issue: Your Node Vs. The Digital Wilderness

Julien Urraca -
From The Core Issue: A look at what it takes to defend your Bitcoin node against the myriad of threats from the wider internet.
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The Core Issue: Outrunning Entropy, Why Bitcoin Can’t Stand Still

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

Antoine Poinsot -
From The Core Issue: A look at BIP 54, a softfork proposal to fix four outstanding bugs in Bitcoin's core consensus protocol.
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The Core Issue: Why Bitcoin Needed A Remodel With Segwit and Taproot

Shinobi -
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.
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The Core Issue: libsecp256k1, Bitcoin’s Cryptographic Heart

Sebastian Falbesoner -
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.
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The Core Issue: Keeping Bitcoin Core Secure

Niklas Gögge -
From The Core Issue: a look at how Bitcoin Core handles security vulnerability disclosures, testing for bugs, and patching them.
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The Core Issue: Cluster Mempool, Problems Are Easier In Chunks

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