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Jun 12
Bitcoin Optech newsletter #409 is here:
- describes a draft BIP to replace the testnet4 test network with a successor
- Optech Newsletter #409 Podcast
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Jun 12
Pol Espinasa (@sliv3r__) posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a draft BIP, co-authored with Fabian Jahr (@fjahr), to replace testnet4 with testnet5...
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Jun 12
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter streaming live on X/Twitter Tuesday at 16:30 UTC.
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Jun 10
Pyth (@pythcoiner) and Ademan (@Ademan555) joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #408:
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● A post-quantum path for BIP324 (37:15)
● Discussion of QR signing payloads for miniscript wallets (1:27)
Changing consensus
● CTV-only vault proof of concept (13:08)
● Post-quantum Lightning discussion (43:41)
● Quantum attack game theory (47:24)
● BIP54 64-byte transactions and potential legitimate uses (49:15)
Releases and release candidates
● Core Lightning 26.06 (1:11:15)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #35269 (1:15:42)
● Bitcoin Core #34644 (1:20:45)
● Bitcoin Core #34198 (1:22:21)
● LND #10813 (1:26:32)
● Rust Bitcoin #6250 (1:28:05)
● BOLTs #1338 (1:36:06)
● BOLTs #1326 (1:37:23)
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Jun 5
Bitcoin Optech newsletter #408 is here:
- summarizes ideas to make BIP324 transport encryption quantum secure
- describes a proposal to standardize QR-based signing payloads for miniscript wallets
- links to a CTV-only vault proof of concept
- outlines points from a post-quantum Lightning thread
- summarizes a quantum attack game theory post
- points to discussion of 64-byte transactions and potential uses
- Optech Newsletter #408 Podcast
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Jun 5
Jeremy Rubin (@JeremyRubin) wrote to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list about potential legitimate uses for 64-byte witness-stripped transactions...
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Jun 5
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter streaming live on X/Twitter Tuesday at 16:30 UTC.
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Jun 2
Chandra Pratap joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #407:
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● Core Lightning assertion DoS disclosure (0:47)
● Bitcoin Core developer meeting transcripts (14:34)
Releases and release candidates
● Eclair v0.14.0 (20:30)
● Core Lightning 26.06rc2 (23:01)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #33966 (24:14)
● Bitcoin Core #34917 (28:04)
● Bitcoin Core #35017 (30:52)
● BIPs #1944 (35:25)
● BIPs #2108 (36:14)
● Eclair #3192 (39:28)
● LDK #4584 (40:28)
● LDK #4628 (41:27)
● LND #10552 (43:35)
● LND #10820 (48:52)
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May 29
Bitcoin Optech newsletter #407 is here:
- announces the responsible disclosure of a vulnerability that allowed a remote peer to crash Core Lightning nodes
- links to transcripts from a recent Bitcoin Core developer meeting
- Optech Newsletter #407 Podcast
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May 29
Many Bitcoin Core developers met in person in May, and transcripts from the meeting have been published. Topics included SwiftSync, post-cluster mempool, an Erlay redesign, package relay, silent payments, TCP hole punching, private broadcast, a modern crypto library, and mutation testing, among others...
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