Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #369 is here: - shares an update on differential fuzzing of Bitcoin and LN implementations - links to a new paper about garbled locks for accountable computing contracts - summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange - Optech Newsletter #369 Podcast Bruno Garcia posted to Delving Bitcoin to describe recent progress and accomplishments of bitcoinfuzz, a library and related data for fuzz testing Bitcoin-based software and libraries... Liam Eagen posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list about a paper he’s written about a new mechanism for creating accountable computing contracts but based on garbled circuits... Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange: - Is it possible to recover a private key from an aggregate public key under strong assumptions? - Are all taproot addresses vulnerable to quantum computing? - Why cant we set the chainstate obfuscation key? - Is it possible to revoke a spending branch after a block height? - Configure Bitcoin Core to use onion nodes in addition to IPv4 and IPv6 nodes? 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!
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 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... 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... 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 will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 16:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!