Bitcoin Core 0.15.1 Released

[Amph]

i have a question, how far a replay attack can go back in time? i mean if i have a TX with 10k confirmations can still be attacked with a replay attack?

no one know?

[TheQuin]

i have a question, how far a replay attack can go back in time? i mean if i have a TX with 10k confirmations can still be attacked with a replay attack?

no one know?

Probably because you are asking in the wrong thread. AKAIK replay attacks are not limited by time, but if you start a thread asking then someone more knowledgeable than I might answer.

[TechBullion]

The transaction time is the turn off for me. It's extremely high.

[desmodiAN]

does anyone have a proper link for running bitcoin core on raspberry pi?

[BillyBobZorton]

I am thinking about downloading and installing the upgrade but the thought of waiting for the whole chaing to re-sync fills me with dread. Surely one of you must have already tried this if I am up to date with blocks, will the change take 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week?

If you up to date with blocks then there is no need to resynch so the whole upgrade process should take less than half an hour.

It's likely that 0.16 will be released very soon, maybe even within a week or two

That's great news, what is the source of this information?

I've seen on reddit gmaxwell (nullc) and I think Luke JR also pointed to a release of 0.16 rather soon. As far as I know, this version will be the one that has native segwit support for bech32 addresses (finally). Hopefully this will make Coinbase support segwit and we can see cheaper transactions because it's getting out of hand with the fees sometimes.

[TheQuin]

I've seen on reddit gmaxwell (nullc) and I think Luke JR also pointed to a release of 0.16 rather soon. As far as I know, this version will be the one that has native segwit support for bech32 addresses (finally). Hopefully this will make Coinbase support segwit and we can see cheaper transactions because it's getting out of hand with the fees sometimes.

Thanks for that, I'm trying to resist joining Reddit as there are not enough hours in the day for me as it is. It's not just Coinbase but the nearly all major services are using Core so that must account for a very large proportion of transactions. When they are all finally able to start using Segwit then that should increase capacity. Hopefully giving slightly reduced Tx fees until Lightning Network is available which is the major scaling event we desperately need.

[BillyBobZorton]

I've seen on reddit gmaxwell (nullc) and I think Luke JR also pointed to a release of 0.16 rather soon. As far as I know, this version will be the one that has native segwit support for bech32 addresses (finally). Hopefully this will make Coinbase support segwit and we can see cheaper transactions because it's getting out of hand with the fees sometimes.

Thanks for that, I'm trying to resist joining Reddit as there are not enough hours in the day for me as it is. It's not just Coinbase but the nearly all major services are using Core so that must account for a very large proportion of transactions. When they are all finally able to start using Segwit then that should increase capacity. Hopefully giving slightly reduced Tx fees until Lightning Network is available which is the major scaling event we desperately need.

You don't need to join reddit, I've never had an account, you just can lurk it, or bookmark whoever is worth listening to, I got a couple of posters I like that I follow.

On Coinbase; i like to think that they are just being conservative, and they are not deliberately delaying segwit adoption to push whatever hardfork agenda they must be planning next. I've learned to never trust Coinbase.

[RanieriClaudio168]

I am noticing that this update has remedied some very large issues

[MeshCollider]

I am thinking about downloading and installing the upgrade but the thought of waiting for the whole chaing to re-sync fills me with dread. Surely one of you must have already tried this if I am up to date with blocks, will the change take 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week?

If you up to date with blocks then there is no need to resynch so the whole upgrade process should take less than half an hour.

It's likely that 0.16 will be released very soon, maybe even within a week or two

That's great news, what is the source of this information?

The source of the information is me telling you The segwit wallet PR is becoming almost ready to merge and then there will be a couple of other things to do before it is released, but it shouldn't be too much longer to wait

[MeshCollider]

i have a question, how far a replay attack can go back in time? i mean if i have a TX with 10k confirmations can still be attacked with a replay attack?

A replay attack only happens if there are two chains, and you want to create a transaction on one chain but not the other. Generally this is only possible after a new forkcoin is released, and so an old transaction with 10k confirmations is likely to already be in both blockchains (because it was part of the chain before the split) and thus a replay attack doesn't make sense on it.

[TheQuin]

The source of the information is me telling you  

Well, thanks. What I was really meaning to ask is what is the best way to follow the progress myself?

BTW. I had no idea from your nickname at first who you were.  Thanks, Samuel.

[UAE Seasider]

I am thinking about downloading and installing the upgrade but the thought of waiting for the whole chaing to re-sync fills me with dread. Surely one of you must have already tried this if I am up to date with blocks, will the change take 1 hour, 1 day, 1 week?

If you up to date with blocks then there is no need to resynch so the whole upgrade process should take less than half an hour.

It's likely that 0.16 will be released very soon, maybe even within a week or two

That's great news, what is the source of this information?

Thank you for the informative answer TheQuin, the thought of waiting for a whole chain resync was filling me with dread. Might put it off now though as seeing that 16 is about to drop 

[mmortal03]

It feels like it's been forever since the last IRC meeting summary, too (here's the last one, from the beginning of November): https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2017/11/02/

[mmortal03]

Thanks for this amazing release. It's just too bad that SegWit support was postponsed on its next release, but I hope it can get fixed.

It's likely that 0.16 will be released very soon, maybe even within a week or two

I guess they decided to go a different route than the following with the numbering?
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/11449

[fik99]

let's say the bitcoin core is now upgraded to bitcoin XT
what would be the changes that would happen in bitcoin? price? fee? wallet? diff?

[MadGamer]

let's say the bitcoin core is now upgraded to bitcoin XT
what would be the changes that would happen in bitcoin? price? fee? wallet? diff?

Bitcoin XT died long time ago and It's not coming back. Bitcoin price is no longer affected by hard forks negatively (BTG, BCH, SBTC, BTCX etc.) because people consider them as free money so It they would dump them for BTC which result in an increase.

[5thFear]

need help. i m searching for the orginal BTC wallet. but whenever i download it, it starts downloading bitcoin core. now i believe bitcoin core is a different currency ? m i right ? is BTC same as BTX ?

[MeshCollider]

The source of the information is me telling you  

Well, thanks. What I was really meaning to ask is what is the best way to follow the progress myself?

BTW. I had no idea from your nickname at first who you were.  Thanks, Samuel.

Best way is probably to sit on on the weekly developer meetings on IRC, https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/
Upcoming things like releases are generally discussed there

[MeshCollider]

Thanks for this amazing release. It's just too bad that SegWit support was postponsed on its next release, but I hope it can get fixed.

It's likely that 0.16 will be released very soon, maybe even within a week or two

I guess they decided to go a different route than the following with the numbering?
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/11449

The S2X stuff forced us to push out a different 0.15.1 with a lot more fork protection additions to keep users safe. Because of that it was decided that 0.16 should be the release with the segwit wallet support, so it's being brought forward by quite a lot yes

[AutisticKid]

is bitcoin core better than blockchain and the others?