Mark Karpelès submitted a pull request to Bitcoin Core that would redirect coins that have remained untouched since 2011 to a recovery address controlled by the MtGox trustee, reigniting the oldest ...

Binance floated a similar idea in 2019 after losing 7,000 BTC worth about $40 million in a hack. CEO Changpeng Zhao suggested a coordinated reorg with mining pools to erase the theft, but he quickly ...

Bitcoin Core is open-source software maintained by independent developers, not a company. Many developers started as ...

Key metrics tracking the development of Bitcoin Core show 2025 was a good year for the blockchain, with more developers contributing more code, says Jameson Lopp. Bitcoin developers working on the ...

Bitcoin Core development picked up significantly in 2025, with the software still powering about 78% of all Bitcoin full nodes, according to metrics from Casa’s Jameson Lopp. Emails to the Bitcoin ...