Bitcoin Core 28.0 Released With Improved Security and Privacy Features

Nearly six months after the debut of Bitcoin Core 27.0, the BTC development team have launched the latest update of the protocol. Dubbed Bitcoin Core

The Bitcoin Core software, which powers the BTC mainnet, has seen its latest update released by the BTC development team. This new iteration is dubbed Bitcoin Core 28.0 and it includes several improvements and bug fixes for the Bitcoin mainnet.

The Bitcoin development team is aiming for more security and privacy. This week, the team has published notes that highlight a number of updates that are designed to bring improvements to the program's functionality and its security. In addition to more security and other bug fixes, Bitcoin Core 28.0 will also bring upgraded privacy features to users.

This comes only a few weeks after developers notified the public of the advent of high-risk vulnerability and a software bug. These loopholes were focused on one in every six Bitcoin nodes, disrupting their operations. Precisely, these vulnerabilities made nodes very susceptible to DoS attacks from malicious actors. All the attacker had to do was exhaust the nodes with low-difficulty header chains.

Once these nodes were able to download long chains that exceed their bandwidth, a potential crash followed. With Bitcoin Core 28.0 and its additional security enhancement, this is no longer a challenge. To a large extent, this latest development supports reproducible builds, allowing experienced users to compile identical binaries in addition to those distributed on the BTC Core official website.

In the long run, it promotes trust and transparency within the BTC community.

The market outlook of BTC took a new turn Sept. 18, right after the Federal Reserve announced a 50-basis-point rate cut. The flagship cryptocurrency made it way above $60,000 after dwindling below this level for many days. A few days after, the coin plunged and started trading sideways.

Recently, Bitcoin rolled toward $62,000 but has refused to register more upsurge even with the release of U.S. job data. The coin is currently trading at $62,121.25, up 1.65% in 24 hours per CoinMarketCap data.

While not immediate, the Bitcoin Core update might impact the overall performance when investors price this in properly.

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