Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #368 is here: - summarizes a draft BIP for block template sharing between full nodes - announces a library that allows trusted delegation of script evaluation - summarizes changes to services/client software - Optech Newsletter #368 Podcast

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #368

This week’s newsletter summarizes a draft BIP for block template sharing between full nodes and announces a library that allows trusted delegatio...

Anthony Towns posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list the draft of a BIP for how nodes can communicate to their peers the transactions they would attempt to mine in their next block...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #368

This week’s newsletter summarizes a draft BIP for block template sharing between full nodes and announces a library that allows trusted delegatio...

Josh Doman posted to Delving Bitcoin about a library he’s written that uses a trusted execution environment (TEE) that will only sign a taproot keypath spend if the transaction containing that spend satisfies a script...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #368

This week’s newsletter summarizes a draft BIP for block template sharing between full nodes and announces a library that allows trusted delegatio...

Changes to services and client software: - ZEUS v0.11.3 released - Rust Utreexo resources - Peer-observer tooling and call to action - Bitcoin Core Kernel-based node announced - SimplicityHL released - LSP plugin for BTCPay Server - Proto mining hardware and software announced - Oracle resolution demo using CSFS - Relai adds taproot support

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #368

This week’s newsletter summarizes a draft BIP for block template sharing between full nodes and announces a library that allows trusted delegatio...

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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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #367 is here: - LND v0.19.3-beta.rc1 - Bitcoin Core 29.1rc1 - Optech Newsletter #367 Podcast

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #367

This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections announcing new release candidates and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrast...

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Gloria Zhao and Mike Schmidt were joined by Tadge Dryja and Anthony Towns to discuss Newsletter #366: - Draft BIPs proposed for Utreexo - Continued discussion about lowering the minimum relay feerate - Peer block template sharing to mitigate problems with divergent mempool policies - A watch only wallet PR Review Club - And more You can listen on our website:

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Gloria Zhao and Mike Schmidt are joined by Tadge Dryja and Anthony Towns to discuss Newsletter #366.

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David Gumberg, Lauren Shareshian, Jameson Lopp, Steven Roose, and Tim Ruffing joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #365: - Compact block prefilling - Mempool-based fee estimation - Migration from quantum-vulnerable outputs - The OP_TEMPLATEHASH proposal - Proposal to allow longer relative timelocks - Security against quantum computers with taproot as a commitment scheme - And more You can listen on our website:

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by David Gumberg, Lauren Shareshian, Jameson Lopp, Steven Roose, and Tim Ruffing to discuss Ne...

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Matt Morehouse and Jesse Posner (@jesseposner) joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #364: News 0:53 LND gossip filter DoS vulnerability 15:16 Chain code withholding for multisig scripts 38:46 Research indicates common Bitcoin primitives are compatible with quantum-resistant signature algorithms Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange 57:36 How does Bitcoin Core handle reorgs larger than 10 blocks? 1:01:29 Advantages of a signing device over an encrypted drive? 1:03:21 Spending a taproot output through the keypath and scriptpath? Releases and release candidates 1:04:26 Libsecp256k1 v0.7.0 Notable code and documentation changes 1:05:16 Bitcoin Core #32521 1:15:00 Bitcoin Core #31829 1:19:51 LDK #3801 1:21:11 LDK #3842 1:21:57 BIPs #1890 1:23:53 BOLTs #1232

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #364 is here: - summarizes a vulnerability affecting old versions of LND - describes an idea for improving privacy when using co-signer services - examines the impact of switching to quantum-resistant signature algorithms on HD wallets, scriptless multisig, and silent payments - summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange - Optech Newsletter #364 Recap

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #364

This week’s newsletter summarizes a vulnerability affecting old versions of LND, describes an idea for improving privacy when using co-signer ser...

Matt Morehouse posted to Delving Bitcoin about a vulnerability affecting past versions of LND that he previously responsibly disclosed...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #364

This week’s newsletter summarizes a vulnerability affecting old versions of LND, describes an idea for improving privacy when using co-signer ser...

Jurvis Tan posted to Delving Bitcoin about research he performed with Jesse Posner into improving the privacy and security of multisig collaborative custody...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #364

This week’s newsletter summarizes a vulnerability affecting old versions of LND, describes an idea for improving privacy when using co-signer ser...

Jesse Posner posted to Delving Bitcoin several links to research papers that indicate that quantum-resistant signature algorithms provide comparable primitives to those currently used in Bitcoin...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #364

This week’s newsletter summarizes a vulnerability affecting old versions of LND, describes an idea for improving privacy when using co-signer ser...

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange: - How does Bitcoin Core handle reorgs larger than 10 blocks? - Advantages of a signing device over an encrypted drive? - Spending a taproot output through the keypath and scriptpath?

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #364

This week’s newsletter summarizes a vulnerability affecting old versions of LND, describes an idea for improving privacy when using co-signer ser...

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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Davidson Souza joined Optech discuss Newsletter #363: Changes to services and client software 0:45 Floresta v0.8.0 released 20:38 RGB v0.12 announced 25:34 FROST signing device available 29:44 Gemini adds taproot support 38:14 Electrum 4.6.0 released Releases and release candidates 38:51 LND v0.19.2-beta Notable code and documentation changes 39:38 Bitcoin Core #32604 40:55 Bitcoin Core #32618 43:03 Bitcoin Core #31553 46:53 Core Lightning #7725 47:23 Eclair #2716 52:19 LDK #3628 53:22 LDK #3890 54:30 LND #10001

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #363 is here: - summarizes changes to services/client software including Floresta, RGB, Frostsnap and more - LND v0.19.2-beta - Optech Newsletter #363 Recap

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #363

This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing updates to services and client software, announcing new releases and release can...

Changes to services and client software: - Floresta v0.8.0 released - RGB v0.12 announced - FROST signing device available - Gemini adds taproot support - Electrum 4.6.0 released

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #363

This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing updates to services and client software, announcing new releases and release can...

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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #362 is here: - briefly describes a new library allowing output script descriptors to be compressed for use in QR codes - recaps the "Improve TxOrphanage denial of service bounds" PR Review Meeting - #362 Recap Podcast

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #362

This week’s newsletter briefly describes a new library allowing output script descriptors to be compressed for use in QR codes. Also included are...

Josh Doman posted to Delving Bitcoin to announce a library he’s written that encodes output script descriptors into a binary format that reduces their size by about 40%...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #362

This week’s newsletter briefly describes a new library allowing output script descriptors to be compressed for use in QR codes. Also included are...

Improve TxOrphanage denial of service bounds is a PR by glozow that changes TxOrphanage eviction logic to guarantee each peer the resources for at least 1 maximum-size package worth of orphan resolution...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #362

This week’s newsletter briefly describes a new library allowing output script descriptors to be compressed for use in QR codes. Also included are...

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Sanket Kanjalkar, Jonas Nick, Tadge Dryja, Steven Roose, and Brandon Black joined Optech this week to discuss: - A new onion message network - CTV+CSFS and benefits to PTLCs and BitVM - Vault descriptors - The CTV and CSFS open letter - Winternitz signatures using OP_CAT - Commit/reveal function for post-quantum recovery - OP_TXHASH variant with support for transaction sponsorship - And more

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #361 Recap Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sanket Kanjalkar, Jonas Nick, Tadge Dryja, Steven Roose, and Brandon Black to discuss Newsl...