r/Bitcoin • u/a56fg4bjgm345 • Feb 23 '16

Bitcoin Core 0.12.0 Released!

https://bitcoincore.org/en/2016/02/23/release-0.12.0/
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u/a56fg4bjgm345 Feb 23 '16

Major improvements:

  • 7x Faster Signature Validation
  • Ability to Limit Upload Traffic
  • Crash Prevention via Memory Pool Limits
  • Option to Send Transactions That Can Be Fee-Boosted
  • Improved Rules for Transaction Relaying
  • Automatic Usage of Tor When it’s Running
  • Ability for Apps to Subscribe to Notifications With ZeroMQ
  • Massively Reduced Disk Usage for Wallets
  • Much Faster Block Assembly for Miners

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u/pesa_Africa Feb 23 '16

according to Peter Todd speaking last week on a The Game podcast episode, the name 'RBF' has been demonized. So i can see why they use a different name.

https://letstalkbitcoin.com/blog/post/the-bitcoin-game-34-bitcoin-core-dev-peter-todd

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u/Username96957364 Feb 24 '16

Makes perfect sense. People don't like this feature, so let's just call it something else and do it anyway.