Bitcoin Core 0.21.0 Released
Bitcoin Core version 0.21.0 is now available for download. For a complete list of changes in this new major version release,
please see the release notes.
If have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom
(IRC, web) and we’ll do our best to help you.
Published at Thu, 14 Jan 2021 05:00:00 +0000
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