Sunday, November 1, 2026

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

🔒 The first coinbase lock released at block 979,920. Live unlock tracker

Said today on the Knots PRs

“tested ACK 6556fc2dc2 Unit tests pass, plus mempooldatacarrier, the new mempooldatacarrierlntaprootrevoke, mempoolaccept, mempooldeadbranch and featuretaproot. The new test fails on a7c4617524 at its first case, as expected. Manual check on regtest: built the tolocal tree with lnd's own NewLocalCommitScriptTree (NUMS internal key, delay + revocation leaves) and spent the revocation leaf with a Schnorr sig. - …”

Kilombino on #487 · 4d ago

Lock proposals still open

• #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 on top of #468, no cliff, independent of RDTS 1 approval
• #478 Softfork: 180-day rolling maturity from 973440 built on #468 1 approval
• #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 up 71% in three days, straight through the unlock xbt.live
• XBT unlock, first day: a drip, not a dump xbt.live
• Convert XBT to USD — Bitcoin Blake2B to US dollar Converter CoinCodex
• Adding Use Cases Is Bad For Bitcoin NGU Bitcoin University
• XBTPay adds BTCPay Server 2.4.7 security fixes github.com

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