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Bitcoin Optech
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Bitcoin Optech
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We provide weekly newsletters, workshops, case studies, and research for the #Bitcoin community.
Katılım Haziran 2018
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Sjors Provoost (@SjorsProvoost) joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #413:
News
● Using fountain codes for IBD (13:53)
Releases and release candidates
● Bitcoin Core 31.1 (22:52)
● LND v0.20.2-beta (28:49)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #32489 (31:11)
● Bitcoin Core #32606 (33:59)
● Bitcoin Core #34020 (0:48)
● Core Lightning #9104 (42:55)
● Eclair #3323 (45:11)
● LND #10832 (46:24)
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Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter streaming live on X/Twitter Tuesday at 16:30 UTC.
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Lucas Lima posted to Delving Bitcoin about his latest research on using fountain codes to allow pruned nodes to contribute to Initial Block Download (IBD), without significantly increasing their storage requirements...
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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #413 is here:
- describes research into using fountain codes to allow pruned nodes to contribute to initial block download
- Bitcoin Core 31.1, LND v0.20.2-beta
- Optech Newsletter #413 Podcast
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Conduition (@conduition_io) and Jeremy Rubin (@JeremyRubin) joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #412:
Changing consensus
● Benchmarking SLH-DSA STARK aggregation (1:05)
● Bird of Prey 2 (BoP-2) non-malleable schnorr and PQ signatures (10:21)
● Lattice-based signatures (19:41)
● Public key recovery for P2MR EC leaves (25:50)
● Aligning privacy incentives in P2MR (30:48)
● Prohibit merkle internal node preimages that encode minimal 64-byte transactions (49:38)
● Triggering EC disabling with a NUMS point spend or hashrate majority (37:36)
Releases and release candidates
● Bitcoin Core 31.1rc1 (1:32:43)
● Bitcoin Core 30.3rc1 (1:32:48)
● Bitcoin Core 29.4rc1 (1:32:52)
● Core Lightning v26.06.2 (1:36:01)
● LND v0.20.2-beta.rc1 (1:36:39)
● LND v0.21.1-beta (1:38:10)
● LDK v0.2.4 (1:38:57)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #35266 (1:40:00)
● Bitcoin Core #35550 (1:41:10)
● Bitcoin Core #35610 (1:42:15)
● BIPs #2196 (1:43:52)
● BIPs #2165 (1:47:46)
● BIPs #2201 (1:50:13)
● LND #10900 (1:51:20)
● LND #10927 (1:52:37)
● LDK #4748 (1:54:13)
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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #412 is here:
- links to benchmarking around SLH-DSA STARK aggregation
- points to discussion of a paper on constructing hybrid strongly-unforgeable signature schemes
- examines lattice-based PQ signatures
- describes a proposal for public key recovery for P2MR EC leaves
- summarizes a thread on aligning privacy incentives in P2MR
- describes and alternative to banning all 64-byte transactions
- summarizes a proposal to trigger EC disabling with a NUMS point spend or hashrate majority
- Optech Newsletter #412 Podcast
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Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter streaming live on X/Twitter Tuesday at 16:30 UTC.
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Pieter Wuille wrote to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list about codifying the expected future disabling of elliptic curve (EC) spending paths within new post-quantum output types such as BIP360 (P2MR) and P2TRv2...
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Nishant Bansal (@nishant282003) and Matthew Zipkin joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #411:
News
● LND zero-timestamp gossip DoS disclosure (1:00)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
● Is it a bug that `OP_IF` is part of the tapscript opcodes? (34:02)
● Why would forbidding `OP_IF` in tapscript be a problem? (41:11)
● Does a softfork always succeed? (49:17)
● How to set up Bitcoin Core to mine a valid block after the BIP110 activation in August 2026? (56:44)
● Are BIP110 blocks on a branch with lower difficulty valid? (59:47)
● What is the story behind Bitcoin test networks? (1:07:41)
● Why was `-datacarriersize` redefined in 2022, and why was the 2023 proposal to expand it not merged? (1:15:35)
● Are chains of 26 unconfirmed transactions prohibited by the wallet in Bitcoin Core 31.0? (1:25:33)
● Are there changes in Bitcoin Core 29.0 that affect memory usage? (1:28:20)
● What is Bitcoin Core's release schedule? (1:30:21)
Releases and release candidates
● LDK v0.1.10 (1:34:50)
● LDK v0.2.3 (1:35:31)
● BTCPay Server 2.4.0 (1:37:04)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #35070 (1:39:27)
● Bitcoin Core #35182 (13:15)
● BIPs #2198 (1:46:09)
● LDK #4713 (1:51:17)
● LDK #4684 (1:53:47)
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