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0.14.0 Released
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-March/013697.html
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2017/03/08/release-0.14.0/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FdGku1PVE8

Pull Requests
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9806
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9818
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9849
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9919
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9966

Network Stats
IBD Improvements Over Time
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Blockchain Growth - Bitcoin v Ethereum
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Bitcoin Node Services
http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/services.html

Bitcoin Node Security
http://luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/charts/security.html

Other Stats
BTC.com
https://bitcoinchain.com/

Weekly Meetings
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2017/02/16/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2017/02/23/
https://bitcoincore.org/en/meetings/2017/03/02/

Bitcoin Unlimited Remote Code Exploit
https://github.com/BitcoinUnlimited/BitcoinUnlimited/commit/eee6a2daeb560f26061535695fc0f7de168ffe32
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5zeut8/buir2017223_statement_regarding_networkwide/dexkurs/?context=3
https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/5zdrru/peter_todd_bu_remote_crash_dos_wtf_bug_assert0_in/dexgmty/?context=3

User Activated Soft Fork
https://gist.github.com/shaolinfry/0f7d1fd22743bb966da0c0b1682ea2ab
https://gist.github.com/shaolinfry/70d0582db7de958b7d5b6422cfef4e22

On-chain scaling - a review of historical performance optimization made to Bitcoin’s reference software. Part 1
https://bitcoincore.org/en/2017/03/13/performance-optimizations-1/

[bitcoin-dev] TXO commitments do not need a soft-fork to be useful
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-February/013591.html
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/9880

[bitcoin-dev] Proposal for utxo commitment format
https://www.mail-archive.com/bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org/msg04650.html

XPIR for more private lightweight nodes
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1762589.0

SHA1
https://shattered.it/
https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/announcing-first-sha1-collision.html
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2017-February/013600.html

Cloudflare Reverse Proxies are Dumping Uninitialized Memory
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=1139
https://github.com/pirate/sites-using-cloudflare/blob/master/README.md
https://blog.cloudflare.com/quantifying-the-impact-of-cloudbleed/

MIT Bitcoin Expo 2017
http://mitbitcoinexpo.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mVOq1jaR1U
https://diyhpl.us/wiki/transcripts/mit-bitcoin-expo-2017/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mimblewimble/comments/5xo9ri/scriptless_scripts_in_mimblewimble_mit_bitcoin/dem9kpj/

Construct 2017
http://www.coindesk.com/events/construct-2017/videos/

Porting Bitcoin Core to CloudABI
https://laanwj.github.io/2017/03/02/porting-bitcoin-core-to-cloudabi.html
https://github.com/laanwj/bitcoin

Release v0.14.0 FIBRE
https://github.com/bitcoinfibre/bitcoinfibre/releases/tag/v0.14.0-fibre0.6

Constant-deposit multiparty lotteries on Bitcoin (revised)
https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/955

Bcoin v1.0.0 Released
https://medium.com/purse-essays/announcing-the-bcoin-v1-0-0-beta-release-b6c1c4acf1e3#.gdoz10cq7

Lightning
Want to #bitcoin Geek with Us? Join #lightning!
https://medium.com/@rusty_lightning/want-to-bitcoin-geek-with-us-join-lightning-40033be5ebd6#.wt03tqsze

Sprites: Payment Channels that Go Faster than Lightning
https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05812
https://botbot.me/freenode/lightning-dev/2017-02-22/?msg=81345308&page=1

Zerocoin implementation bug
https://zcoin.io/language/en/important-announcement-zerocoin-implementation-bug/

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