Earlier today Daniela Brozzoni and Naiyoma joined @Murch and @schmidty to discuss Newsletter #360: - Fingerprinting Bitcoin Core nodes - Descriptors and BIP380 - Questions from the bitcoin stack exchange about blocking knots nodes, OP_CAT, compact blocks, selfish mining - And more Catch up:
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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #360 Recap Podcast
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Daniela Brozzoni and Naiyoma to discuss Newsletter #360.
Bitcoin Optech newsletter #360 is here: - summarizes research about fingerprinting full nodes using P2P protocol messages - seeks feedback about possibly removing support for H in BIP32 paths in the BIP380 specification of descriptors - summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange - Optech Newsletter #360 Recap Podcast
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #360
This week’s newsletter summarizes research about fingerprinting full nodes using P2P protocol messages and seeks feedback about possibly removing...
 Daniela Brozzoni posted to Delving Bitcoin about research she conducted with developer Naiyoma into identifying the same node on multiple networks using the addr messages it sends...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #360
This week’s newsletter summarizes research about fingerprinting full nodes using P2P protocol messages and seeks feedback about possibly removing...
 Ava Chow posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list to ask whether any software generates descriptors using uppercase-H to indicate a hardened BIP32 key derivation step...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #360
This week’s newsletter summarizes research about fingerprinting full nodes using P2P protocol messages and seeks feedback about possibly removing...
 Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange: - Is there any way to block Bitcoin Knots nodes as my peers? - What does OP_CAT do with integers? - Async Block Relaying With Compact Block Relay (BIP152) - Why is attacker revenue in selfish mining disproportional to its hash-power?
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #360
This week’s newsletter summarizes research about fingerprinting full nodes using P2P protocol messages and seeks feedback about possibly removing...
 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!
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