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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #424 is here:
- describes a proposal for upgrading the offchain protocols of the Lightning Network to post-quantum security
- summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange
- Optech Newsletter #424 Podcast
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Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- What would be a drawback if sum instead of SHA256 of amounts was used in the taproot signature message?
- Post-BIP110 fork is it necessary to resync from block 0?
- Can a Bitcoin node build a partial UTXO set from only the most recent blocks and use it to validate new transactions?
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Davidson Souza (@Erik17192799), Eric Price, and PortlandHODL (@PortlandHODL) joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #423:
News
● Vardiff controllers that strand slowing miners (23:06)
● Improvements in Utreexo initial block download (1:18)
● New BIP draft for unspendable internal keys (1:17:51)
Changes to services and client software
● BitBoxApp adds Spark-based Lightning payments (1:24:09)
● Covenants.diy script editor (1:28:40)
● EntropyLab offline key calculator (59:46)
Releases and release candidates
● Eclair 0.14.3 (1:31:10)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #35445 (1:33:34)
● Bitcoin Core #36076 (1:38:51)
● Bitcoin Core #36150 (1:42:18)
● Bitcoin Core #36174 (1:44:37)
● Bitcoin Core #34743 (1:46:13)
● Bitcoin Core #36081 (1:48:07)
● Bitcoin Core #35975 (1:48:59)
● BIPs #2241 (1:50:04)
● BIPs #2258 (1:53:09)
● Eclair #3380 (1:56:33)
● Eclair #3376 (1:57:37)
● Eclair #3372 (2:04:34)
● LND #11163 (2:05:57)
● BDK #2246 (2:07:44)
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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #423 is here:
- summarizes an analysis of mining pool difficulty controllers stranding slowed miners
- describes a proposed improvement to Utreexo’s initial block download
- links to a draft BIP for specifying unspendable taproot internal keys
- summarizes changes to services/client software
- Optech Newsletter #423 Podcast
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Changes to services and client software:
- BitBoxApp adds Spark-based Lightning payments
- Covenants.diy script editor
- EntropyLab offline key calculator
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Adam Gibson and Rob Segers joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #422:
News
● A protocol for probabilistic coinjoin and covert betting (1:14)
● Update on silent payments light clients (43:26)
Releases and release candidates
● LDK v0.3-rc1 (1:04:06)
● LDK v0.2.6 (1:05:58)
● BTCPay Server 2.4.4 (1:07:44)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #35949 (1:13:04)
● Bitcoin Core #34931 (1:15:11)
● Bitcoin Core #36048 (1:18:14)
● Bitcoin Core #36123 (1:21:12)
● Bitcoin Core #36176 (1:22:32)
● Core Lightning #9434 (1:24:49)
● LND #11061 (1:26:29)
● LND #11125 (1:27:23)
● LND #11064 (1:28:33)
● BTCPay Server #7561 (1:29:31)
● BTCPay Server #7559 (1:31:03)
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Adam Gibson posted to Delving Bitcoin about Babilonia, a proposal for a new probabilistic coinjoin and covert betting protocol...
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Rob Segers posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list providing specifications for silent payments light clients and measuring performance of different ways to retrieve data from blocks...
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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #422 is here:
- describes a proposed protocol for probabilistic coinjoins disguised as covert bets
- summarizes benchmarks of a silent payments indexing server against compact block filters for light clients
- Optech Newsletter #422 Podcast
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Average_gary (@avg_gary), Erick Cestari (@iamflops), Conduition (@conduition_io), and Greg Sanders (@theinstagibbs) joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #421:
News
● Using silent payments for miner payouts in coinbase transaction (2:19)
● Responsible disclosure of a denial-of-service vulnerability in CLN (27:42)
Changing consensus
● Continued discussion of PQC output types (54:03)
● DropKick commit/reveal PQC rescue (1:14:08)
● SHRINCS draft BIP (1:35:48)
● BIP448 and CSFS/CTV demos and applications (37:55)
Releases and release candidates
● Core Lightning 26.06.7 (1:51:35)
● LND v0.21.3-beta (1:55:32)
● LND v0.20.4-beta (1:55:37)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #36111 (1:58:21)
● Bitcoin Core #36032 (2:01:17)
● Core Lightning #9435 (2:04:52)
● Eclair #3368 (2:08:10)
● Eclair #3366 (2:10:54)
● LND #11090 (2:14:55)
● LND #11140 (2:20:33)
● HWI #792 (2:23:55)
● BDK #2262 (2:25:48)
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