What are the differences between bitcoin 0.1 and 0.13

[hl5460]

I found this via history of bitcoin, this should be what bitcoin 0.1 look like. Correct me if I am wrong.


Those "Generated" could no longer be seen in today's 0.13 wallet.

I am wondering what major changes had been made during the past 7 years.

[achow101]

Those "Generated" could no longer be seen in today's 0.13 wallet.

Yes they can. You can still mine to an address in your wallet and it would still show up as mined.

I am wondering what major changes had been made during the past 7 years.

Lots of changes have been made. I'll start with the basics

• Qt instead of WxWidgets
• DNS discovery instead of IRC discovery for peers
• No IP Transactions now
• No inbuilt CPU miner now
• 4 soft forks (Blocks v2, P2SH, CLTV, CSV
• Linux and Mac OSX versions
• RPC server and commands
• RBF, CPFP
• Block size limit

[hl5460]

Wow, thanks for the info.
I had thought that mining features was gone.
First time heard of WxWidgets.

So all these features are added, any obsolete items?

[achow101]

Wow, thanks for the info.
I had thought that mining features was gone.
First time heard of WxWidgets.

So all these features are added, any obsolete items?

There are three obsolete things I have in that list. IP transactions (sending Bitcoin to people by knowing their node's IP address), CPU mining, and IRC peer discovery are obsolete now.

There is also the addition of the testnet and regtest networks. Testnet has actually been replaced twice, it's on its third version.

[hl5460]

Wow, thanks for the info.
I had thought that mining features was gone.
First time heard of WxWidgets.

So all these features are added, any obsolete items?

There are three obsolete things I have in that list. IP transactions (sending Bitcoin to people by knowing their node's IP address), CPU mining, and IRC peer discovery are obsolete now.

There is also the addition of the testnet and regtest networks. Testnet has actually been replaced twice, it's on its third version.

Nice to know the history of bitcoin.

May I ask the reasons for replacing the testnets?

Also, what is your comment on the article:   https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/ethereum-vs-ethereum-which-is-the-ship-of-theseus-1474991313

[pooya87]

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May I ask the reasons for replacing the testnets?

it was because of abuse. people were selling testnet bitcoins. and also some other problems that you can read in the below quote from the wiki. will add reference in a moment
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet

There have been three generations of testnet. Testnet2 was just the first testnet reset with a different genesis block, because people were starting to trade testnet coins for real money. Testnet3 is the current test network. It was introduced with the 0.7 release, introduced a third genesis block, a new rule to avoid the "difficulty was too high, is now too low, and transactions take too long to verify" problem, and contains blocks with edge-case transactions designed to test implementation compatibility. On the December 21 of 2015 SegNet was deployed, to test the Wuille's Segregated Witness proposal.

[hl5460]

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May I ask the reasons for replacing the testnets?

it was because of abuse. people were selling testnet bitcoins. and also some other problems that you can read in the below quote from the wiki. will add reference in a moment
https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Testnet

There have been three generations of testnet. Testnet2 was just the first testnet reset with a different genesis block, because people were starting to trade testnet coins for real money. Testnet3 is the current test network. It was introduced with the 0.7 release, introduced a third genesis block, a new rule to avoid the "difficulty was too high, is now too low, and transactions take too long to verify" problem, and contains blocks with edge-case transactions designed to test implementation compatibility. On the December 21 of 2015 SegNet was deployed, to test the Wuille's Segregated Witness proposal.

Conflict of interest again.  Mainnet remains the same though.