This week’s newsletter describes a proposal for speeding up Bitcoin Core initial block download, with a proof-of-concept implementation that shows a roughly 5x speed up compared to Bitcoin Core’s defaults. Also included are our regular sections summarizing…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Niklas Gögge to discuss Newsletter #350.

This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections describing changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing recent changes to popular…