Tuesday, October 27, 2026
Archived at the end of the day (US Eastern). Price, the lock, the Knots fight and what people are saying.
🔒 18,458 XBT locked, unlock in 580 blocks (about 4 days). Live unlock tracker
What changed
- BuildShrike wallet released Shrike 2.5.5-blake2b.28 - mined coins follow Bitcoin Knots 29.4.3
- BuildKilowallet released Kilowallet 1.3.9
Said today on the Knots PRs
“@kwsantiago thanks, all six hold. Pushed the fixes as a rewrite of the same four commits (range-diff: 1 and 3 and 4 change, 2 is identical); the old tip https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/commit/5e22fb2429860caacf6774b8c61a0f73c7564995 is kept as a branch. Answered each thread inline. Lands after https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/pull/457”
chrisguida on #481 · 16h ago
“Deployment note. From height 980019, a block spending a coinbase mined at or after 979919 at depth 100 can be accepted by 29.4.2 but rejected by 29.4.3. If a hashrate majority builds on that block, 29.4.3 nodes cannot follow the higher-work branch. Installing 29.4.3 later does not resolve this: the fixed start height requires it to reject the same historical spend. Could the release notes document detection and a …”
melvincarvalho on #468 · 1d 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
- #469 Softfork: Continue RDTS, with a rolling 40320-block (~280-day) coinbase maturity (builds on #467) 0 approvals
- #480 45 Day Maturity Softfork - Permanent 0 approvals
- #482 Cover the historical coinbase maturity window on regtest 0 approvals
Stories and takes
- Everyone's watching the cliff. The bigger story is the dry spell after it xbt.live
- Knots 29.4.3 makes the 180-day lock official: upgrade before block 979,919 xbt.live