Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Archived at the end of the day (US Eastern). Price, the lock, the Knots fight and what people are saying.

🔒 19,046 XBT locked, unlock in 389 blocks (about 3 days). Live unlock tracker

What changed

• LockKnots #468 was closed without merging: T.Softfork: consensus: 180-day rolling coinbase maturity from height 979919 until RDTS expiry
• LockNew Knots PR #490: Experimental Dynamic Coinbase Maturity
• SpamNew Knots PR #487: policy: Relay LND's revocation leaf within -datacarriersize
• BuildKilowallet released Kilowallet 1.4.1
• BuildKilowallet released Kilowallet 1.4.0
• BuildKilowallet released Kilowallet 1.4.0-beta1 (pre-release)
• BuildBitcoin Knots released Bitcoin Knots v29.4.3.knots20260508
• SpamKnots #463 was merged: policy: detect and count BPUB data
• SpamKnots #319 was merged: policy: count bare data envelopes (OP_2DROP/pushnum runs) as datacarrier
• SpamKnots #422 was merged: policy: count pubkeys no signature can prove as datacarrier bytes
• SpamKnots #457 was merged: validation: return TX_NOT_STANDARD for datacarrier rejections
• SpamKnots #400 was merged: policy: Count data in a dead conditional branch

Said today on the Knots PRs

“Your 29.x port (1a1898d) no longer merges onto 29.x-knots now that it is 29.4.3, so I rebased it: https://github.com/jasonsopko/bitcoinknots/commits/policy-verified-key-credit-2943 (head 708de6c0d0). The one change the rebase forced is in the arguments of CScript::DatacarrierBytes: 29.4.3 already uses the third for 400's bool deadbranches, so the verified keys are now the fourth, and a deleted overload makes a …”

jasonsopko on #470 · 16h ago

Lock proposals still open

• #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
• #490 Experimental Dynamic Coinbase Maturity 0 approvals

Stories and takes

• XBT drops 23% in five hours, then wins almost all of it back, three days before the unlock xbt.live
• Is mining XBT really 40% cheaper than buying it? Yes, at the cheapest rentals xbt.live

Past days