Bitcoin Optech newsletter #361 is here:
- describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used for HTLC relay in LN
- CTV+CSFS advantages for PTLCs
- Vault output script descriptor
- Continued discussion about CTV+CSFS advantages for BitVM
- Open letter about CTV and CSFS
- OP_CAT enables Winternitz signatures
- Commit/reveal function for post-quantum recovery
- OP_TXHASH variant with support for transaction sponsorship
- Optech Newsletter #361 Recap Podcast

Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used ...
Olaluwa Osuntokun posted to Delving Bitcoin about allowing nodes to use separate connections for relaying onion messages than they use for relaying HTLCs...

Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used ...
Developers continued a previous discussion about the benefits of OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (CTV), OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK (CSFS), or both together for various deployed and imagined protocols...

Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used ...
Sjors Provoost posted to Delving Bitcoin to discuss how the recovery information for a wallet using vaults could be specified using an output script descriptor...

Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used ...
Developers continued the previous discussion about how the availability of OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (CTV) and OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK (CSFS) opcodes could “reduce [BitVM] transaction sizes by approximately 10x” and allow non-interactive peg-ins...

Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used ...
James O’Beirne posted an open letter to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing signed by 66 individuals (as of this writing), many of them contributors to Bitcoin-related projects...

Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used ...
Developer Conduition posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a prototype implementation that uses the proposed OP_CAT opcode and other Script instructions to allow quantum-resistant signatures using the Winternitz protocol to be verified by consensus logic...

Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used ...
Tadge Dryja posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a method for allowing individuals to spend UTXOs using quantum-vulnerable signature algorithms even if fast quantum computers would otherwise allow redirecting (stealing) the output of any attempted spend...

Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used ...
Steven Roose posted to Delving Bitcoin about a variation on OP_TXHASH called TXSIGHASH that extends 64-byte schnorr signatures with additional bytes to indicate what fields in the transaction (or related transactions) the signature commits to...

Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to separate the network connections and peer management used for onion message relay from those used ...
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 16:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!