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Bitcoin Knots is a fully verifying implementation of Bitcoin.
It is NOT an altcoin like bcash or bsv.
The project's goal is to be the best possible #Bitcoin full node for both newbies and power users, for miners, users, and businesses.
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Bitcoin Knots 29.4.2.knots20260508 released, further mitigating the ongoing attack! 🎉
Be sure to read the release notes and verify your download(s)!
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Bitcoin Knots 29.4.1.knots20260508 released, mitigating the ongoing attack! 🎉
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The Bitcoin network is under attack, and block production has slowed significantly.
The community is preparing mitigations to resolve the situation. In the meantime, attackers are spreading misinformation and advising users to downgrade or switch to insecure node software.
Community note
The main Bitcoin chain continues normal block production unaffected; the claimed slowdown and "attack" refer only to the minority BIP-110 fork chain, which split off at block 961632 with ~2.5% support and stalled after two blocks. coindesk.com/tech/2026/08/0… primexbt.com/news/bitcoins-…
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Another announcement will be published as soon as a mitigation is ready.
If you would like to participate in the ongoing mitigation strategy, please join our Discord:
discord.gg/scKhfvBnp
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A new proof-of-work algorithm will be chosen on August 11th at 14:00 UTC in the Discord #strategy channel, based on a deterministic random choice between candidates. A relevant hash for that proof-of-fairness:
71a7960874f3352f4ba600ce67bd6f8e96702565abea93021fa86349d99a45e8
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Bitcoin BIP110 mandatory signaling begins in approximately 6 hours, so it is crucial for security to be running at least the previous version (29.3.knots20260508) released in May.
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Bitcoin Knots 29.4.knots20260508 released! 🎉
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Bitcoin Knots retweeted
On Saturday, a troll made a false "consensus failure" report about Bitcoin Knots.
To put it simply: if Core corrupts your data, Knots sometimes can't detect the corruption.
Since Core is late updating to BIP110, it can in some case corrupt the database after activation.
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To better serve our sponsors, today we are announcing that Bitcoin Knots has been acquired by Bitcoin Core.
This will open the mine field to support for Ordinals, Runes, Bcash, and other NFTs or FSTs, and restore the node monopoly lost over the last year, making us lots of money
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Bitcoin Knots 29.3.knots20260210 released! 🎉
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Bitcoin Knots retweeted
An update on this thread, for full clarity: There are now a total of 8 new bugs which can cause wallet deletion or corruption.
My initial comment applies only to the initial, severe bug that affects people simply using Core30 normally.
@BitcoinKnots _is_, however, impacted by 6 of the others, which are not triggered by normal end users:
3 of these are "power user" functionality (moving wallet files around manually; creating unexpected files in the wallet directory; or using the `bitcoin-wallet` command line tool)
1 of them requires a low-level disk/filesystem/OS problem during shutdown.
The remaining 2 are unrealistic to trigger at all, but hypothetically possible if you start the node software again immediately before it finishes shutting down (within milliseconds), or ... have multiple wallets in the same directory, one of which has recent changes, the node crashes or has a power failure, you start the node again and NOT open the recently-modified wallet, open the other wallet, and shutdown cleanly.
All six of these issues will be fixed in a new version of Knots soon.
Looks like #32273 is the bugfix (fixing a bug that caused a mere error) that exposed Core to the worse (data loss causing) bug.
This PR was _not_ merged into Knots yet.
I am now fairly confident that @BitcoinKnots is NOT impacted by the Core30 wallet deletion bug.
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Bitcoin Knots retweeted
Looks like #32273 is the bugfix (fixing a bug that caused a mere error) that exposed Core to the worse (data loss causing) bug.
This PR was _not_ merged into Knots yet.
I am now fairly confident that @BitcoinKnots is NOT impacted by the Core30 wallet deletion bug.
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Bitcoin Knots 29.2.knots20251110 released! 🎉
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Bitcoin Knots 29.2.knots20251010 released! 🎉
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