Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Archived at the end of the day (US Eastern). Price, the lock, the Knots fight and what people are saying.
Price$336.78 ▼ 4.6%
Block980,386
Hash rate45.3 PH/s
Next difficulty-0.1% est.
🔒 The first coinbase lock released at block 979,920. Live unlock tracker
What changed
- BuildKilowallet released Kilowallet 1.5.0
- SpamKnots #507 was closed without merging: policy: Always count spam in multisig keys, drop -rejectbpub
Said today on the Knots PRs
“tested ACK 6556fc2dc2 End to end with lnd: lnd's own breach and watchtower integration tests, run against Knots built from a7c4617524 and from this PR, on a BLAKE2b regtest (-testactivationheight=blake2b@10) at default policy. | lnd itest | a7c4617524 | 6556fc2dc2 | |---|---|---| | revokeduncooperativecloseretribution (simple taproot, staging and final) | fail | pass | | …”
2rdzy on #487 · 2d 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
- Paperclip Krux: a $70 hardware wallet that only signs XBT xbt.live
- XBT Market has a new home and new features: shipping escrow, required tracking, mediation, no KYC, clear order steps @SoverootProject
- Did the lock move your tax date? Knots 29.4.3 shipped: 45-day coins unlock at 979,920, coins from 979,919 wait 180 days. One hobbyist's… @BLAKE2bMiner
- Sticker competition winners have been chosen! Congrats to the winners, and thanks to everyone who participated. Payouts will be… @PaperclipPool
- Paperclip Flasher 0.1.2 is out! • Better SSH retries and clearer errors • Verified backups and uploads • Dashboard health checks •… @ConnorsLabYT
- Blackrock sells SHA-256d-banksters-coins while saving bitcoins for themselves. They "split their coins". @GregTonoski
- Scamson Mow presents the transaction that moves SHA-256d-banksters-coins and not bitcoins (coins had been "split" so the transaction can't… @GregTonoski
- Why Bitcoin Must Be Used As A Medium Of Exchange Bitcoin University
- Liquid Network restores full bitcoin backing following $320 million exploit The Block