Bitcoin Technical Updates

Last 30 days

Uptime

100%

Response time

241 ms typical, 241 ms slowest 5%

Last check

2 h ago

Next check

any minute now

How to call it

# See the payment challenge (nothing is charged)
curl -i -X GET "https://btc-radar.vercel.app/bitcoin/technical-updates"

import { wrapFetchWithPayment } from "@x402/fetch";
import { x402Client } from "@x402/core/client";
import { ExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

const client = new x402Client().register(
  "eip155:8453",
  new ExactEvmScheme(privateKeyToAccount(process.env.AGENT_KEY)),
);
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? Preflight it first for $0.005:
// GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbtc-radar.vercel.app%2Fbitcoin%2Ftechnical-updates
const res = await pay("https://btc-radar.vercel.app/bitcoin/technical-updates");
console.log(await res.json());

Example input

{}

Example output

{
  "digest_date": "2026-10-07",
  "items": [
    {
      "affects": [
        "node operators on low-bandwidth connections",
        "initial block download"
      ],
      "id": "core-36080",
      "layer": "p2p",
      "not_yet": "In master only; not in a release. No consensus or policy change.",
      "project": "bitcoin-core",
      "sources": [
        {
          "date": "2026-10-05",
          "publisher": "GitHub bitcoin/bitcoin",
          "type": "merged pull request",
          "url": "https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/36080"
        }
      ],
      "status": "merged",
      "title": "Peers are no longer disconnected for a missed ping while they are sending us blocks",
      "uncertainty": "none noted",
      "verification": "primary",
      "what_happened": "Bitcoin Core stops enforcing the 20-minute ping timeout against a peer while blocks are being downloaded from that peer.",
      "why_it_matters": "During initial block download on a slow link, a peer busy serving our block requests could miss the ping deadline and be dropped although it was not at fault. This avoids needless disconnects for low-bandwidth nodes."
    }
  ]
}

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