John Newbery

I’m an Bitcoin protocol developer. I contribute to Bitcoin Core and other open source Bitcoin projects.

Building a Stronger Bitcoin Developer Community

October 17, 2017 · 4 minute read

Announcing the second Chaincode Residency program.

What's New in Bitcoin Core V0.15 - Part 5

September 18, 2017 · 4 minute read

What’s new in Bitcoin Core part 5 of 5: script caching.

What's New in Bitcoin Core V0.15 - Part 4

September 17, 2017 · 2 minute read

What’s new in Bitcoin Core part 4 of 5: multi-wallet support.

What's New in Bitcoin Core V0.15 - Part 3

September 16, 2017 · 3 minute read

What’s new in Bitcoin Core part 3 of 5: replace-by-fee in the GUI.

What's New in Bitcoin Core V0.15 - Part 2

September 15, 2017 · 4 minute read

What’s new in Bitcoin Core part 2 of 5: better fee estimation.

What's New in Bitcoin Core V0.15 - Part 1

September 14, 2017 · 5 minute read

What’s new in Bitcoin Core part 1 of 5: per-output chainstate database.

An Introduction to Bitcoin Core Fee Estimation

September 12, 2017 · 13 minute read

How Bitcoin Core estimates fee rates based on historical mempool and block data.

Contributing to Bitcoin Core, a Personal Account

August 11, 2017 · 7 minute read

Lessons from my first six months of contributing to Bitcoin Core.

What Did Bitcoin Core Contributors Ever Do for Us?

July 21, 2017 · 8 minute read

A short summary of work that Bitcoin Core developers have contributed to the project.