Monday, November 2, 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

“Merged c3b977f08a onto v29.5.knots20260508rc1 and ran it against every mainnet block from 961640 to 980102. It refuses these 6 spends, which rc1 accepts with their real signatures and fees: | Block | Txid | Script | Refused with | |---|---|---|---| | 961806 | 0855e87e06887cbe10d7915128c107229aee3dffdba4f84d99ceec4eb9c40d09 | ori(andv(v:pkh,older),ori(andv(v:thresh(1,5x pkh),older),ord(multi(3,5 …”

kwsantiago on #481 · 3d 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

• Did the coinbase lock move your XBT tax date? xbt.live
• Bitcoin Core Sybil Attack Confirmed Bitcoin University

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