There sure has been a lot of *talk* about Bitcoin development these last 18 months. Meanwhile, there's been an awful lot of actual development work done. Examples of what Bitcoin Core has been working on throughout this all: - a node that syncs in nearly half the time - a path to 5x faster (SwiftSync) - a new GUI to make running that node easier, maybe even on mobile - a redesigned mempool with better fee bumping and fee estimates - a mining interface so individual miners can build their own block templates (Stratum v2) - a private broadcast so your transactions can't be traced to your IP - a reproducible map of the entire internet for node eclipse attack protection - a better way to relay time-sensitive Lightning and Ark transactions for confirmation - a multisig that's cheaper, more private, and looks like any other payment on-chain (MuSig2) - a private payment address with zero linkable payments (silent payments) - a threshold (e.g. 3-of-5) signature scheme that looks like a single signature (FROST) - a proposal to fix known protocol bugs and current attack vectors (BIP54) - a slew of post-quantum research to be ready for future attack vectors - a first-ever independent security audit for more eyes on the code - a new tool that attacks a live node the way a real adversary would (Fuzzamoto) - a fix that killed an entire class of disk-filling attacks - a replacement for a risky external library - a consensus engine the whole ecosystem can build on (Bitcoin Kernel) Over a hundred contributors and more than a dozen funding organizations around the world. Not without controversy. Not without bugs. But undeniable progress. August will come and go. This work will continue.