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Bitcoin 0.8.6 Released: Updates Block Size Limits, Free Transactions, OS X Bugs

by CrunchyJams on 12/10/13, 4:28 PM with 22 comments

  • by ck2 on 12/10/13, 8:22 PM

    Bitcoin is about to break 1 Billion difficulty.

    The leap in difficulty must mean all the 500-600Ghash/sec 28nm ASICs are coming online.

  • by newsmaster on 12/11/13, 8:01 AM

    Genuine question: Does this mean Btc is not so decentralized after all? Could they possibly decide one day to release an update to exercise ultimate control/power over btc?
  • by aroch on 12/10/13, 4:57 PM

    No one claimed the 10BTC bug bounty for the OSX client, so its all a matter of hoping things are fixed
  • by nhilma on 12/11/13, 5:15 AM

    By lifting min output for free transction does the bitcoin network become more vulnerable to DDOS?
  • by AsymetricCom on 12/10/13, 7:04 PM

    Seems kind if weird that Bitcoin (actually bitcoind) itself would be dependent on a google-developed database solution that isn't open source, and not only that, has non-determinate behavior, depending on the host system..