Earlier today, nprofile1qqsf2ds69dp2ympzhtpmdd46f3w2cnfkjphtpnaesf5xs8z95vqu2xqytd0r5 and @schmidty were joined by Sjors Provoost and Antoine Poinsot to discuss Newsletter #347: - Fee-Based Spam Prevention For Lightning - Testnets 3, Testnet 4 - Taproot annexes - BIP30, BIP34, witness commitments, and the block 1,983,702 problem - Malleating any 64-byte transactions - And more! Catch up:
Bitcoin Optech newsletter #347 is here: - describes upfront and hold fees in LN based on burnable outputs - summarizes discussion about testnets 3 and 4 - announces a plan to relay certain transactions containing taproot annexes - summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange - Bitcoin Core 29.0rc2 - Optech Newsletter #347 Recap John Law posted to Delving Bitcoin the summary of a paper he’s written about a protocol nodes can use to charge two additional types of fees for forwarding payments... Sjors Provoost posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list to ask whether anyone was still using testnet3 now that testnet4 has been available for about six months... Peter Todd announced to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list his plan to update his Bitcoin Core-based node, Libre Relay, to begin relaying transactions containing taproot annexes if they follow particular rules... Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange: - Why is the witness commitment optional? - Can all consensus valid 64 byte transactions be (third party) malleated to change their size? - How long does it take for a transaction to propagate through the network? - Utility of longterm fee estimation - Why are two anchor outputs are used in the LN? - Why are there no BIPs in the 2xx range? - Why doesn’t Bech32 use the character “b”? - Bech32 error detection and correction reference implementation - How to safely spend/burn dust? - How is the refund transaction in Asymmetric Revocable Commitments constructed? - Which applications use ZMQ with Bitcoin Core? Bitcoin Core 29.0rc2 is a release candidate for the next major version of the network’s predominate full node. Please see the version 29 testing guide. Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 15:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!