Bitcoin is a decentralized P2P electronic cash system without a central server or trusted parties. Users hold the crypto keys to their own money and transact directly with each other, with the help of the network to check for double-spending.
Bitcoins can be sent easily through the Internet, without having to trust middlemen and transactions are designed to be computationally prohibitive to reverse.
Bitcoin helps you stay safe from instability caused by fractional reserve banking and central banks. The limited inflation of the Bitcoin system’s money supply is distributed evenly (by CPU power) throughout the network, not monopolized by banks.
Bitcoin is an electronic cash system that uses a peer-to-peer network to prevent double-spending. It's completely decentralized with no server or central authority.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
Source codebase changes:
· Many source code cleanups and warnings fixes. Close to building with -Wall Locking overhaul, and several minor locking fixes
· Several source code portability fixes, e.g. FreeBSD
JSON-RPC interface changes:
· add multisigaddress enabled for mainnet (previously only enabled for testnet)
Network protocol changes:
· protocol version 60001
· added nonce value to "ping" message (BIP 31)
· added new "pong" message (BIP 31)
Backend storage changes:
· Less redundant database flushing, especially during initial block download Shutdown improvements (see above)
Qt user interface:
· minor URI handling improvements
· progress bar improvements
· error handling improvements (show message box rather than console exception, etc.)
· by popular request, make 4th bar of connection icon green
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