Earlier today Murch and Schmidty discussed Newsletter #336 with Abubakar Sadiq, Gregory Sanders, and Daniel Roberts: - Double coinbase reservation - LN-Symmetry and more... Catch up:
Bitcoin Optech newsletter #336 is here: - describes a potential change to Bitcoin Core affecting miners - summarizes discussion about creating contract-level relative timelocks - discusses a proposal for an LN-Symmetry variant with optional penalties - Optech Newsletter #336 Recap on Riverside Abubakar Sadiq Ismail posted to Delving Bitcoin about a bug discovered in 2021 by Antoine Riard that results in nodes reserving 2,000 vbytes in block templates for coinbase transactions rather than the intended 1,000 vbytes... Gregory Sanders posted to Delving Bitcoin about finding a solution for a complication he discovered about a year ago when creating a proof-of-concept implementation of LN-Symmetry... Daniel Roberts posted to Delving Bitcoin about preventing a malicious channel counterparty (Mallory) from being able to delay channel settlement by deliberately broadcasting old states at a higher feerate than an honest counterparty (Bob) is paying for confirmation of the final state... Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guests Abubakar Sadiq Ismail and Gregory Sanders on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 15:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
Yesterday @David A. Harding and @schmidty were joined by Yuval Kogman, Jeremy Rubin, and Steve Myers to discuss Newsletter #335: - Attacks on centralized coinjoin - ChillDKG - Changing consensus - BDK 1.0.0 Catch up: