Bitcoin News - May 2019

This month we saw a new peak of 471k transactions in 24 hours, the release of Bitcoin Core 0.18, new proposals for Taproot, Schnorr signatures and Erlay, the removal of the upper limit on Lightning Network channels was tested and much more.

What the monthly news is about:

For those unfamiliar, each day I pick out the most popular/relevant/interesting stories in r/Bitcoin and save them. At the end of the month I release them in one batch, to give you a quick (but not necessarily the best) overview of what happened in bitcoin over the past month.

A recap of Bitcoin in May 2019

Adoption

Development

Security

Mining

Business

Research

Education

Regulation & Politics

Archeology (Financial Incumbents)

Price & Trading

Fun & Other