diff --git a/package/bitcoin/Config.in b/package/bitcoin/Config.in
index 060cae24f5..425e99ce8b 100644
--- a/package/bitcoin/Config.in
+++ b/package/bitcoin/Config.in
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_BITCOIN
 	depends on BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_SUPPORTS_ALWAYS_LOCKFREE_ATOMIC_INTS # boost-thread, boost-filesystem
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_BITCOIN_ARCH_SUPPORTS
-	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_9
+	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_11
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS # boost
 	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_BOOST
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_BITCOIN_WALLET
 
 endif
 
-comment "bitcoin needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads, wchar, gcc >= 9"
+comment "bitcoin needs a toolchain w/ C++, threads, wchar, gcc >= 11"
 	depends on BR2_PACKAGE_BITCOIN_ARCH_SUPPORTS
 	depends on BR2_TOOLCHAIN_SUPPORTS_ALWAYS_LOCKFREE_ATOMIC_INTS
 	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP || \
 		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_HAS_THREADS || !BR2_USE_WCHAR || \
-		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_9
+		!BR2_TOOLCHAIN_GCC_AT_LEAST_11
diff --git a/package/bitcoin/bitcoin.hash b/package/bitcoin/bitcoin.hash
index 9bd0843085..c7dad34d0a 100644
--- a/package/bitcoin/bitcoin.hash
+++ b/package/bitcoin/bitcoin.hash
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# Hash from: https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-26.2/SHA256SUMS
+# Hash from: https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-28.0/SHA256SUMS
 # After checking pgp signature from:
-# https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-26.2/SHA256SUMS.asc
-sha256  78d59418741f45cbdaa9bf20ebc49a5e95ff9f7172f72fc78d14307eaf341b3c  bitcoin-26.2.tar.gz
+# https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-28.0/SHA256SUMS.asc
+sha256  700ae2d1e204602eb07f2779a6e6669893bc96c0dca290593f80ff8e102ff37f  bitcoin-28.0.tar.gz
 
 # Hash for license file
-sha256  a6331cd1f889397adfc0c3b0535682a20950c6cf8e5c712e9997a15ce98324e1  COPYING
+sha256  779d9beab4eef2340bb1e86e91f8f55dea9b0985a2d03fbcbb52bd713e091e1b  COPYING
diff --git a/package/bitcoin/bitcoin.mk b/package/bitcoin/bitcoin.mk
index 9ca29092ad..9a5f4d6494 100644
--- a/package/bitcoin/bitcoin.mk
+++ b/package/bitcoin/bitcoin.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-BITCOIN_VERSION = 26.2
+BITCOIN_VERSION = 28.0
 BITCOIN_SITE = https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-$(BITCOIN_VERSION)
 BITCOIN_AUTORECONF = YES
 BITCOIN_LICENSE = MIT