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The Bitcoin Dev Kit project is building open source tools and libraries designed to be a solid foundation for cross-platform, descriptor based #bitcoin wallets.

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2024-10-02 20:59:32

BDK 1.0.0-beta.5 is out!
This release changes bdk_wallet transaction creation to enable RBF by default, updates the bdk_esplora client to retry server requests that fail due to rate limiting, the bdk_electrum crate now also offers a use-openssl feature, and more ➡️ https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.5

2024-08-26 16:23:07

Apply for a Full-Time Open Source Rust Maintainer Grant 🦀
The Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK) Foundation is seeking proposals for a full-time Rust maintainer to support the ongoing development and maintenance of the BDK suite of open source software.
(Details in new blog post ⬇️)
https://bitcoindevkit.org/blog/_2024-q3-rfp-rust-maintainer/

2024-08-19 15:10:22

📣 Bitcoin Dev Kit Foundation is excited to announce its full-time grantees!
- @npub1kys…de60 is a Rust/Golang developer who has been contributing to BDK since 2022, and is one of the architects of BDK 1.0
- @npub1thu…a79l is an Android engineer who has been working on the project for over 3 years, leading the work on the language bindings and Kotlin Example Wallet
- @npub1ree…9ty4 is an iOS engineer with a focus on the language bindings and Swift Example Wallet
- valuedmammal is a Rust developer and node operator who is the newest full-time contributor on BDK
Check out more about the BDKF grantees ➡️ https://bitcoindevkit.org/foundation/grantees/

2024-08-12 16:01:33

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Formatting running wild, thank you 😅

2024-08-12 16:00:49

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https://bitcoindevkit.org/blog/_2024-q2-update/

2024-08-12 15:54:28

📝 New BDK Blog Post … What we were up to in Q2   https://bitcoindevkit.org/blog/_2024-q2-update/%E2%80%A8%E2%80%A8%F0%9F%9A%80 1.0 alphas! New grant projects! btc++! Bitkey!

2024-07-22 15:37:46

📢 BDK 1.0.0-beta.1 has landed 🚀. This release includes the first beta version of bdk_wallet with a stable 1.0.0 API. The changes in this version include reworked wallet persistence, changeset, and construction, optional user provided RNG, custom tx sorting, and use of merkle proofs in bdk_electrum. See the release notes for all the details.
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v1.0.0-beta.1

2024-06-15 03:17:16

📢 BDK 1.0.0-alpha.13 is done! This release includes major changes required to finalize the bdk_wallet 1.0.0 APIs, including: upgrading to rust-bitcoin 0.32 and rust-miniscript 0.12.0, constructing a Wallet now requires two descriptors (external and internal), the db field was removed from Wallet, staged changes can be persisted via a blocking or async data store. See the release notes for all the details.
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha.13

2024-05-23 23:33:31

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Release notes:
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha.12

2024-05-23 23:30:10

📢 BDK 1.0.0-alpha.12 is ready to go. This bi-weekly release fixes an electrum syncing bug when calculating fees and adds the bdk_sqlite crate for storing wallet data in SQLite tables. The Wallet::allow_shrinking function was also remove because it was too easy to misuse. See the release notes for all the details.

2024-05-02 19:31:18

📢 BDK 1.0.0-alpha.10 is done. This release improves the address API, simplifies the Esplora API, and adds easier spk-based scanning and syncing with electrum/esplora. It also removes the generic T from the Wallet. https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha.10

2024-04-15 21:48:20

📢 BDK 1.0.0-alpha.9 is published! This regular bi-weekly alpha release updates dependencies rust-bitcoin to v0.31.0 and rust-miniscript to v11.0.0 plus replaces the deprecated rust-miniscript function max_satisfaction_weight with max_weight_to_satisfy. It also adds chain module improvements needed to simplify syncing with electrum and esplora blockchain clients.
https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/releases/tag/v1.0.0-alpha.9

2024-03-27 20:28:41

📢 It's that time again! BDK 1.0.0-alpha.8 updates APIs to use the rust-bitcoin FeeRate type, fixes PSBT finalization to remove extra taproot fields, and fixes blockchain scanning stop_gap definition. We recommend all alpha users upgrade to this release. https://github.com/bitcoindevkit/bdk/issues/1388

2024-03-27 20:28:18

2024-03-14 00:23:27

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2024-03-06 01:00:21

hello world! we are now live on #nostr.