Phew. I'm glad that madness is behind us. If you've been distracted in the last 6 months, you may have missed the real work happening.
We've released the most robust and performant Bitcoin client yet: http://ift.tt/2jl4Qvd … (thanks to @orionwl and all contributors!)
Work continues apace on signature aggregation and batch validation (thanks to @pwuille and gmaxwell)
BIP159 is in the works so pruned nodes can serve recent blocks to their peers: http://ift.tt/2pBJ0Rz … (thanks to @jonasschnelli)
Bitcoin has taken one small step (or is that a giant leap?) closer to the moon: http://ift.tt/2vFnboQ (thanks to @adam3us and the Blockstream satellite team)
The fiber network continues to be made more robust, reducing miner centralization pressure: http://ift.tt/29ATKKA (thanks to @theBlueMatt)
A major Bitcoin service company has rolled out SegWit for over half its customers , cutting fees in half: http://ift.tt/2v7vgFD … (thanks to @lopp and @murchandamus)
(shameless plug 😳) I've announced an initiative to help broaden and strengthen the Bitcoin developer community: http://ift.tt/2xPZONK
There are three (count 'em) lightning UIs: http://ift.tt/2yduh7I … http://ift.tt/2wE5K8n http://ift.tt/2sToU6J … (thanks to @roasbeef, @jackmallers and @alexbosworth)
... and work continues on four independent lightning implementations: http://ift.tt/2ick2tY … http://ift.tt/1HA1K53 … http://ift.tt/1o4l09a http://ift.tt/2hEgTgQ (thanks to @starkness, @rusty_twit, @acinq_co and @tdryja)
And in with a bullet, we now have aggregatable range proofs in O(log(n)) size for compact confidential transactions. Bang bang: http://ift.tt/2lQnAUe …. (thanks to Benedikt Bünz)
Now imagine what we could have achieved together if we weren't also having to write code to protect user funds from a dangerous 2x fork.
Addendum: This list wasn't meant to be exhaustive, but turns out that I forget a bunch of stuff which is just far too cool to exclude.
First up: Neutrino - light clients done right: http://ift.tt/2wz24oJ … (thanks to @roasbeef and @stile65)
Eclair: another really cool looking lightning client:John Newbery added,
Announcing Eclair Wallet, a user-friendly android wallet for Lightning ⚡️http://ift.tt/2gNGto1 … #bitcoinlightning
Three (at least) proposals for MAST (thanks @johnsonlau01, @MarkFriedenbach and Russell O'Connor)
Scaling is coming, ignore the FUD. The most important thing for Bitcoin now is for its main chain to keep its main attributes: Antifragility and Immutability, that's what gives it the status as a safe store of value. To use it to buy a cup of coffee it's not a priority (but we will get there later), just like the Internet, built on a solid base and adding all the needed and desired functionalities with second layer apps.
Also, Note the massive amount of qualified devs working on Bitcoin and those second layer apps vs the few crappy devs on the roger-coin. Which project do you think has more value in the medium and long term?
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