Altcoin News: Bitcoin Core 0.18.0 Has Been Released

May 3, 2019, by Marko Vidrih on ALTCOIN MAGAZINE

Yesterday, May 2, the developers published the next version of the Bitcoin Core full-client.

As expected, now full Bitcoin nodes, operating on the basis of the new version of Bitcoin Core, will be able to interact with hardware wallets, including Ledger, Trezor, Digital BitBox, KeepKey or Coldcard through the Hardware Wallet Interaction (HWI) tool. This solution will allow users to achieve a higher level of security. It is still possible to use this feature only through the command line, but the developers have promised that in time they will make this solution available to all users, including those who do not have specialized knowledge.

Also, a new command-line tool called Bitcoin-wallet has appeared in the client, with which you can create a new wallet file without using the remote procedure call function, and view basic information about an existing wallet: encryption status, number transactions, etc.

Subsequently, users can combine several purses created by them and manage them through a graphical user interface (GUI). This feature, called multi wallet, will be improved with future updates, as there are still problems when using the GUI to access the multi wallet. For example, it is impossible to use the control function of coins with multiple wallets.

Some interface elements were also changed, for example, in the outgoing transaction tab, the checkbox was removed, which forced the user to pay a fee not lower than the set threshold. In the new version of the client, the user can reduce the size of the commission up to the minimum commission for transferring the transaction to the network.

Including a number of commands were added and updated for the remote calling of procedures intended primarily for developers, error protection for miners was added, and other minor flaws were eliminated.

Recall that the previous large-scale release of Bitcoin Core version 0.17.0 took place in October last year.

Author: Marko Vidrih