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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #428 is here:
- describes a design for a single-issuer layer 2 whose users can redeem their bitcoin onchain without the issuer’s cooperation
- summarizes a proposal for including hash preimages in output script descriptors.
- summarizes changes to services/client software
- Optech Newsletter #428 Podcast
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Changes to services and client software:
- Ibis Wallet v5.0-beta released
- Landfall wallet for Lightning mining payouts
- rbitcoin 0.8.0 released
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Erick Cestari (@iamflops) and Adam Gibson joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #427:
News
● Disclosure of two DoS vulnerabilities fixed in Eclair v0.14.1 (0:53)
● Offchain contracts in Lightning channels (12:57)
Releases and release candidates
● Bitcoin Core 32.0rc4 (43:15)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Eclair #3396 (49:25)
● Eclair #3399 (53:23)
● Eclair #3395 (57:23)
● Eclair #3401 (59:09)
● LDK #5080 (1:01:03)
● LDK #5087 (1:02:46)
● LND #11068 (1:05:04)
● Rust Bitcoin #6956 (1:07:44)
● BDK #2319 (1:10:22)
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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #427 is here:
- summarizes the disclosure of two denial-of-service vulnerabilities in older versions of Eclair
- describes a proposed scheme for running complex multi-round contracts inside Lightning channels
- Optech Newsletter #427 Podcast
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Adam Gibson posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list about a proposal for protocol, called LN-GAP, to run complex, multi-round, two-party contracts inside a Lightning channel while settling disputes onchain in a constant number of transactions...
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Clara Shikhelman (@ClaraShik) and Elias Rohrer (@_tnull) joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #426:
News
● Dynamic one-byte message type IDs for BIP324 (45:02)
● Discussion of conventions for tagged hash tags in BIPs (49:04)
● Proposal for onchain, private bitcoin transfers with no consensus changes (1:15)
Releases and release candidates
● Bitcoin Core 32.0rc3 (53:34)
● Core Lightning 26.06.9 (54:38)
● LDK v0.3-rc3 (23:38)
● LDK v0.2.7 (24:33)
● BTCPay Server 2.4.5 (56:55)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #36277 (59:51)
● Bitcoin Core #36365 (1:05:09)
● Bitcoin Core #36338 (1:07:53)
● Bitcoin Core #32895 (1:10:38)
● Core Lightning #9582 (1:12:38)
● Eclair #3390 (1:18:03)
● LDK #5057 (33:00)
● LDK #5042 (35:55)
● LDK #5046 (38:25)
● LDK #5028 (41:43)
● LND #11290 (1:20:41)
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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #426 is here:
- links to a draft BIP for letting peers choose their own one-byte message type IDs over the version 2 P2P transport
- summarizes a discussion about whether BIPs should include their number in tagged hash tags
- describes a proposed metaprotocol for private onchain transfers that requires no consensus changes
- Optech Newsletter #426 Podcast
Misha Komarov (@nemothenoone) posted to Delving Bitcoin about a proposal for a new metaprotocol built on top of Bitcoin, called Shielded Bitcoin, that would enable private transfers while requiring no changes in consensus...
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Matt Morehouse joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #425:
News
● Disclosure of two DoS vulnerabilities in Eclair (1:01)
● Proposal for wallet label synchronization (15:25)
Changing consensus
● Continued discussion of PQC output types (21:36)
● Block-wide signature aggregation via SNARKs (27:17)
● Bounds on chain length with BIP54 time warp fixes (35:19)
● Comparing covenant proposals for vaults (39:23)
● Depots for probabilistic Lightning channels (43:18)
Releases and release candidates
● LND v0.21.4-beta.rc1 (48:40)
● LND v0.20.5-beta.rc1 (50:29)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #29278 (51:55)
● Bitcoin Core #35984 (53:43)
● Bitcoin Core #35301 (56:45)
● Bitcoin Core #36312 (58:51)
● Bitcoin Core #36284 (1:01:59)
● Bitcoin Core #35752 (1:07:47)
● Bitcoin Core #35813 (1:11:46)
● BIPs #2276 (1:13:07)
● LDK #4993 (1:16:39)
● LND #11173 (1:19:40)
● LND #11190 (1:22:12)
● LND #11212 (1:27:37)
● LND #11258 (1:29:58)
You can listen on our website:
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