Network Upgrade Version for On-chain Scaling
The third official BU client release reflects our opinion that Bitcoin full-node software has reached a milestone of functionality, stability and scalability. Hence, completion of the alpha/beta phase throughout 2009-16 can be marked in our release version.
The most important feature of BU's first general release is functionality to restore market dynamics at the discretion of the full-node network. Activation will result in eliminating the artificial full-blocks handicap, restoring a healthy fee-market, allow reliable confirmation times, fair user fees, and re-igniting stalled network effect growth.
Bitcoin Unlimited open-source version 1.0.0 highlights are:
BU v0.12.1 revised with selected open-source Bitcoin Core v0.13.x code-base changes,
plus further enhancements:
Emergent Consensus (EC) improvements
- Mitigation of theoretical attack vectors on EC
Include signature operation accurate counting within EC for blocks >1MB
- Screening peers for heavy hitters and excessive INV traffic for eviction
- Initial Block Download integration
- Consistent eviction and streamlined erasing
Mitigate theoretical attack vectors
- General optimizations determined from many months of live traffic achieving some node statistics with zero missing transactions in a 24-hour period
- Unified facility to manage configuration and command-line parameters with same name. For example, managing connections:
"net.maxConnections": 125, "net.maxOutboundConnections": 8,
- A variety of fixes and small changes for clean-up and stability across multiple OS
Deterministic build for ARM architecture
- Replace-by-Fee [commented out]
Alert Key [commented out]
- BitcoinErrorLog
Amaury (deadalnix ) Sèchet
Tom (dgenr8) Harding
Jerry (digitsu) Chan
ftrader
Justaphf
marlengit
nomnombtc
Peter (ptschip) Tschipper
sandersmann
SartoNess
Andrea (sickpig) Suisani
Andrew (theZerg) Stone
Download location:
- http://www.bitcoinunlimited.info/download
Source code: https://github.com/BitcoinUnlimited/BitcoinUnlimited
- IRC — https://bitcoinunlimited.slack.com/messages/general
Dev discussion — https://bitco.in/forum/forums/bitcoin-unlimited.15/
Donations for projects — 3C4XtQfZLLGovTEiBY5NgRzqYY2bVmmWF3