News
News and updates
Releases, network milestones and project updates. Each post is a plain page in this website’s source, so anyone can see what changed and when.
BitcoinII Core v31.1.0 released
The current release, based on Bitcoin Core v31.1. It brings ShockWave per-block difficulty adjustment. Older versions can’t follow the chain, so upgrade now.
BitcoinII Core v29.1.0 released
An earlier BitcoinII Core release. It has since been replaced by v31.1.0, which every node must now run.
The BitcoinII whitepaper
The project’s whitepaper sets out the idea: a faithful re-deployment of Bitcoin’s original protocol on a new network, with no premine.
Mainnet mining begins
Block 1 was mined on June 22, 2025, about six months after the genesis block of December 12, 2024.
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