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Binaries for bitcoin Core version 0.12.0rc1 are available from:
https://bitcoin.org/bin/bitcoin-core-0.12.0/test/
Source code can be found on github under the signed tag
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/tree/v0.12.0rc1
This is a release
On Sunday, January 17, 2016 11:08:08 AM Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-
dev wrote:
> Preliminary release notes for the release can be found here:
>
> https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/0.12/doc/release-notes.md
The part which lists raw Git pull requests says:
> #6057 ac5476e re-en
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 11:57:28PM +0100, xor--- via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> On Sunday, January 17, 2016 11:08:08 AM Wladimir J. van der Laan via bitcoin-
> dev wrote:
> > Preliminary release notes for the release can be found here:
> >
> > https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/0.12/doc/release
On Monday, January 18, 2016 12:14:16 PM Wladimir J. van der Laan wrote:
> It has been tested in git for almost half a year. This RC is the first
> binary release that contains the functionality.
>
> It is extremely unlikely that the wallet will eat your coins (always backup
> nevertheless), but I
>
> So I'm interested whether this limitation has been lifted, and the whole
> feature is considered as finished.
Yes, it's exactly that limitation that has been lifted!
> If yes, I would highly recommend advertising it in the new release notes - as
> said, the disk space reduction is a big de
On Monday, January 25, 2016 01:03:17 PM Wladimir J. van der Laan wrote:
> > If yes, I would highly recommend advertising it in the new release notes -
> > as said, the disk space reduction is a big deal.
>
> Good idea, has been added by Marco Falke in commit fa31133,
Thanks. The RC2 changelog now
> > To enable block pruning set prune= on the command line or in
> > bitcoin.conf, where N is the number of MiB to allot for raw block & undo
> > data.
>
> From having read the Bitcoin whitepaper quite a few months ago ago, I have
> the
> very very basic understanding that pruning is meant to:
All of this is already implemented in the bitcoind and bitcoin gui.
The theoretic minimum for the prune target would be 0 (just the header
of the current best block) as Bitcoin Core already stores the
chainstate (about 2 GiB) regardless of what you set for -prune=.
In practice, the minimum is 510
>> Block data that is stored can be used by other software, or potentially be
>> served to other nodes. The latter is not implemented at the moment - it
>> would require a change to the P2P protocol, thus right now pruning nodes
>> don't serve block data at all.
Why is the minimum storage quota
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> Why is the minimum storage quota of 550 MiB necessary for pruning
> nodes if the block data is not served to other nodes ? Could the
> client just do transaction verification and transaction relaying
> and only keep the block(s) being verified on
On Monday, January 25, 2016 04:05:59 PM Wladimir J. van der Laan wrote:
> I don't have time to work on the release notes right now, but if someone
> else wants to contribute that'd be awesome.
I cooked my first pull request to resolve this:
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/7416
Thanks for
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