bitcoin-core

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Event January 15, 2016 Added April 16, 2026 Updated August 11, 2026 Article

libsecp256k1 replaces OpenSSL for consensus in Bitcoin Core v0.12

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Pieter Wuille, Gregory Maxwell, Satoshi Nakamoto

On January 15, 2016, Bitcoin Core v0.12 replaced OpenSSL with libsecp256k1 — Wuille and Maxwell's custom elliptic-curve library — for consensus-critical ECDSA verification.

Event August 15, 2015 Added May 9, 2026 Updated September 5, 2026 Analysis

Why Bitcoin's fork wars were not OSS fork wars — the vacuum Satoshi left, the money on top, and the three layers that bind

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Mike Hearn, Gavin Andresen, Wladimir van der Laan, Peter Todd, Gregory Maxwell, Adam Back, Roger Ver, Jihan Wu, Mike Belshe, Vitalik Buterin, Daniel Larimer, Satoshi Nakamoto

Why Bitcoin's 2015-2017 fork wars ran as identity contests, not OSS disputes: the post-2011 authority vacuum, the economic weight on rule choices, and the three layers that bound code to currency.

Event November 1, 2014 Added June 23, 2026 Updated August 6, 2026 Analysis

Did Blockstream control Bitcoin? — the block-size war's biggest 'centralization' charge

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Gregory Maxwell, Adam Back, Pieter Wuille, Mike Hearn, Roger Ver, Jihan Wu, Gavin Andresen, Satoshi Nakamoto

Weighing the 'Blockstream controls Bitcoin' charge against the documentary record: where it comes from, and how each link in the chain holds up.

Event October 1, 2014 Added March 21, 2026 Updated July 20, 2026 Article

Peter Todd proposes BIP 65: OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY

Peter Todd

Peter Todd proposed BIP 65, introducing OP_CHECKLOCKTIMEVERIFY — an opcode locking transaction outputs until a future time. Deployed as a soft fork, enabling escrow and payment channels.

Event March 19, 2014 Added May 3, 2026 Updated September 5, 2026 Analysis

The day 'Bitcoin' split from 'Bitcoin Core' — how the 2014 rebrand cracked open Bitcoin's authority

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Wladimir van der Laan, Mike Hearn, Peter Todd, Gavin Andresen, Satoshi Nakamoto

Editorial reading of how the 2014 'Bitcoin Core' rebrand reshaped Bitcoin's authority vocabulary — PR #3408 internal disagreement, the 2015-2017 fork episodes, and Hearn's 2025 retrospective regret.

Event November 20, 2011 Added May 3, 2026 Updated August 28, 2026 Article

Bitcoin v0.5 removes the Crypto++ dependency, replacing it with OpenSSL SHA-256

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Nils Schneider, Gavin Andresen, Wei Dai, Pieter Wuille, Satoshi Nakamoto

On November 20, 2011, Bitcoin v0.5 shipped with the Crypto++ SHA-256 subset removed and replaced by OpenSSL. Wei Dai's library, a direct codebase dependency since v0.1, was gone.

Event September 13, 2011 Added March 30, 2026 Updated August 23, 2026 Article

Bitcoin moves to GitHub — Early committer access grants (2010–2011)

Bitcoin Project ↔ Gavin Andresen, Chris Moore, Pieter Wuille, Jeff Garzik, Wladimir van der Laan, Nils Schneider

Bitcoin's migration from SourceForge SVN to GitHub, and the chronological record of developers who received commit access to the GitHub repository in 2011.