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Bitcoin Culture January 28, 2019

What Is Bitcoin Core? Validation, Node Modes, Releases, and Security

A version-pinned guide to Bitcoin Core validation, policy, archival and pruned nodes, initial sync, release verification, RPC security, privacy and mining.

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