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Event March 20, 2013 Added October 3, 2026 Updated October 3, 2026 BIP (Bitcoin Improvement Proposal)

BIP 50 — March 2013 Chain Fork Post-Mortem

Gavin Andresen

Gavin Andresen's post-mortem of the March 2013 fork: a block that 0.8 nodes accepted and some pre-0.8 nodes rejected, the Berkeley DB lock limit behind it, and the fixes that followed.

Event January 3, 2009 Added May 27, 2026 Updated October 11, 2026 Design Document

Bitcoin storage design — block database, UTXO set, and chain state management

Bitcoin Institute ↔ Satoshi Nakamoto

How Bitcoin Core persists blocks, maintains the UTXO set, indexes chain state, manages the mempool, prunes historical data, and bootstraps via assumeUTXO.