Topic: Bitcoin Core 0.14.0 Released (Read 11227 times)

Core has become an unwanted fork of bitcoin and a relic. My prediction is this is the last release from Core anyone even hears about.

Bitcoin Core 0.14.1 RC2 available : https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.14.1/test.rc2/

Changelog : https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/compare/v0.14.1rc2...master

my point is that we should care more about THE CODE.
many times people say "core is made up of hundreds of people contributing"

but if those contributors are just spell checking, for example "GitHub" instead of "github" and not actually contributing to the CODE and RULES of the bitcoin network. thus it must be highlighted that core is not made up of hundreds of people really contributing. and instead just a dozen CODE contributors and a hundred spell checker contributors.

core should not over emphasis who is involved if they just have random shills who intentionally add a full stop or capitalise a noun just to fluff the numbers up a bit. as thats not true "peer review".
if the only thing these spell checkers are reviewing is the comments section of documentation and not the code itself its not truly helpful to the network or security of bitcoin.

i personally would applaud and hope lauda (when/if he learns C++) done something that helped the network and/or security of bitcoin. i just have a gripe with all of these people try to take a high ground for things that dont matter to the security of the network.

my method of being frank might be harsh. but my motive is to ensure better standards for something that has world reaching security implications to millions of people.

Thanks, just wondering if the linux command like sudo apt-get remove bitcoind would only remove the executable files not the data. But I think I will just have to go through the process that you mention, which is a pain as have to use special commands to allow me to overwrite and delte things.

For the benefit of others looking for how to UNINSTALL or INSTALL an OLDER or NEWER VERSION of bitcoin core. this is what I've done in Lubuntu Linux:

I wanted to downgrade from bitcoin core 0.14 to version 0.13.2

1) After dowloading the tar file, uncompressing it and verifying, I have a resulting folder:
bitcoin-0.13.2
This folder contains three folders: bin, include and lib.

2) Removed the previous folder from previous version bitcoin-0.14.0 from where I currently had it:
/usr

To do so I need to have full privileges:
Copy stuff to usr/bin and other places that don't give permission
gksudo pcmanfm   <---opens file manager with super permission

Also deleted the bitcoin-qt from where it was currently installed (using the gkksudo pcmanfm command of course):
/bin

3) Now version 0.14 is removed.
To put in it's place 0.13.2 version, and using again the gkksudo pcmanfm command that gives privileges to write to /usr and /bin dolders:
- Copy the bitcoin-0.13.2 folder to /usr
- Take the bitcoin-qt file that is inside bitcoin-0.13.2/bin and copy (not move) to /bin

Note: Before replacing the newer for the older version I had set path for the terminal command bitcoin-qt to use bitcoin-qt inside that /bin folder. In your case you might have to set it yourself, but setting a path is up to you to look up.

You uninstall it by deleting the files that you extracted from the original tar file. Or you can extract the 0.13.2 tar file the exact same way you did with the 0.14.0 tar file and just overwrite anything that conflicts. Either way, you won't lose any data or any of the blockchain since that is stored elsewhere.

How to uninstall bitcoin core without losing the data, in Lubntu Linux. I installed by downlowding the tar file, not an installer, and now want to uninstall so I can then insatall the earlier 0.13 version as the current one doesn't let me make payments (broadcast) using armory  ?

I read that I just need to overwrite the binaries but it's such a a pain to overwrite or remove/add anything from the usr protected folders in linux...

Bitcoin Core 0.14.1 RC1 available : https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.14.1/  

Changelog : https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/compare/v0.14.1rc1...master

I think that this is the kind of attitude that the whole Bitcoin community and stakeholders should be wearing all the time. The current hot debate is exposing the kind of weakness which people behind Bitcoin is letting reign in. We need to understand that we are into this one boat...there is no need to rock the boat just to promote one's vested interest and business positions. We all want money but if we kill the goose that lays the golden eggs at the end we all get nothing. I am hoping that soon we all realize this one and we learn to work together and not against each other. Bitcoin history will one day go back to this day and hopefully will learn the many lessons clearly seen to avoid repeating the same.

Blockchain.info is a terrible service and you should definitely look into storing your coins on a personal, local device.

1. Wallet.dat does not contain your node's mempool data (not sure which data file holds it)

2. Point 1 is irrelevant anyway. It's not the contents of your node's mempool that matters. Your node broadcasts the contents of it's mempool to the other nodes it connects to on the Bitcoin network. Nodes 0.13.2 and less only maintain the mempool for 72 hours before they begin to kick unconfirmed transactions out, but 0.14.0 (I think) keeps unconfirmed transactions in it's local mempool for 1 week. That means that your transaction could take 1 week before it is either confirmed in a block, or gradually kicked out of every mempool on every node on the Bitcoin network. If you paid sufficient fees, the former is more likely. If you paid a lower than median fee, the latter is more likely (but not necessarily guaranteed)

got a question in general about the qt client, i know if i leave a node running and have an unconfirmed transaction in it, it will retry to send the tx, but if i close the client and remove that wallet.dat that held the coins and load an empty wallet in its place will it still try to resend the unconfirmed transaction?

Its coming up on 24 hours and still in mempool, i guess using different wallet.dat atm

Lol hope that made since

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Bitcoin Core is a full node wallet which makes up the majority of the full nodes on the Bitcoin network. This is the latest version of Bitcoin Core and it includes several new features and performance updates and optimizations which make it run faster and sync faster.

could someone enlighten an amateur as to what this is all about? 

Do not use the bootstrap.dat. That is an old and outdated method for syncing. It is actually slower to use the bootstrap.dat to sync now. Just let Core sync normally.

Dear all
How to i download bootstrap.dat, My PC had synce with long times, but only about 10%

Hi, as far as I used, there is no specific app crash issues over here. If I were you, I would update it to 0.14.0 without any worry.

Is there  any update?

No crash (at all !) since the -disablewallet option have been corrected in server mode with 64bits instructions.

This isn't the right thread for that. DM me your debug.log and/or open a thread in Techical Support section. I had zero crashes since upgrading on 3 different system (with different operating systems).

Hi, anyone having app crash issues?

thanks!