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

Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #347
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to allow LN to support upfront and hold fees based on burnable outputs, summarizes discussion about t...
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...

Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #347
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to allow LN to support upfront and hold fees based on burnable outputs, summarizes discussion about t...
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...

Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #347
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to allow LN to support upfront and hold fees based on burnable outputs, summarizes discussion about t...
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...

Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #347
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to allow LN to support upfront and hold fees based on burnable outputs, summarizes discussion about t...
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 Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #347
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to allow LN to support upfront and hold fees based on burnable outputs, summarizes discussion about t...
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.

GitHub
29.0 Release Candidate Testing Guide
Wiki for Bitcoin Core development. Contribute to bitcoin-core/bitcoin-devwiki development by creating an account on GitHub.
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!