Saturday, October 24, 2026
Archived at the end of the day (US Eastern). Price, the lock, the Knots fight and what people are saying.
🔒 17,000 XBT locked, unlock in 1,046 blocks (about 7 days). Live unlock tracker
What changed
- LockNew Knots PR #482: Cover the historical coinbase maturity window on regtest
- BuildKilowallet released Kilowallet 1.3.0
- BuildKilowallet released Kilowallet 1.2.7-beta8 (pre-release)
- BuildKilowallet released Kilowallet 1.2.7-beta7 (pre-release)
- BuildKilowallet released Kilowallet 1.2.7-beta6 (pre-release)
- BuildKilowallet released Kilowallet 1.2.7-beta5 (pre-release)
- BuildKilowallet released Kilowallet 1.2.7-beta4 (pre-release)
- BuildKilowallet released Kilowallet 1.2.7-beta3 (pre-release)
- BuildKilowallet released Kilowallet 1.2.7-beta2 (pre-release)
- BuildKilowallet released Kilowallet 1.2.7-beta1 (pre-release)
- BuildKnots community builds released Bitcoin Knots 29.4.3.knots20260508rc5 (community test build) (pre-release)
- BuildKilowallet released Kilowallet 1.2.6
- BuildKilowallet released Kilowallet 1.2.6-beta2 (pre-release)
- BuildKilowallet released Kilowallet 1.2.6-beta1 (pre-release)
- BuildKilowallet released Kilowallet 1.2.5
- BuildKilowallet released Kilowallet 1.2.5-beta2 (pre-release)
Said today on the Knots PRs
“ACK concept. 468+478 is the way to go. No sudden release of big amount of coins, and 180 days rolling.”
kosdas on #478 · 3h ago
“Two rows still use OP1 OPNOTIF, :552 and :699; with both on OPDEPTH, both tests pass on rc5.”
kwsantiago on #470 · 3h ago
“Withdrawn: I had put together an rc5 test build with this PR instead of 468, but we are going with the 180-day rule from 468 that is already in the rc, so I took the build down.”
Kilombino on #476 · 7h ago
“Done... default is OPDEPTH. Standalone on 422 at 37d2aba74d 29.x port at d53e5ae09d”
LionThunderFingers on #470 · 7h ago
“Following up on the collaboration here with a technical case for this design over the other rolling candidates, grounded in the diff and measured on my own unpruned node. For context on where I'm coming from: I mine this chain independently — my own Knots node and DATUM gateway, no pool — so whatever depth ships sits on my own paycheck. 1. This is the only rolling proposal that also removes the 979920 release The …”
MarcanoFilms on #476 · 8h ago
Lock proposals still open
- #468 T.Softfork: consensus: 180-day rolling coinbase maturity from height 979919 until RDTS expiry 4 approvals
- #404 Consensus: Batched extended coinbase maturity temporary softfork 1 approval
- #409 Consensus: Batched extended coinbase maturity temporary softfork /w hash based random maturity instead of deterministic height based 1 approval
- #429 T.Softfork: Long coinbase maturity (part 2 of 3): extend from 45 days to 1 year 1 approval
- #476 Softfork: 1-year rolling coinbase maturity, no release cliff, independent of RDTS 1 approval
- #478 Softfork: 180-day rolling maturity from 973440 built on #468 1 approval
- #397 [WIP] consensus: Relock outputs of early coinbase spends 0 approvals
- #434 T.Softfork: Release long coinbase maturity in four periods 0 approvals
- #480 45 Day Maturity Softfork - Permanent 0 approvals
- #482 Cover the historical coinbase maturity window on regtest 0 approvals