Bitcoin Optech

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Jonathan Harvey-Buschel (@jonhbit) joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #396: News ● Collision-resistant hash function for Bitcoin Script (0:30) ● Continued discussion of Gossip Observer traffic analysis tool (8:58) Releases and release candidates ● BDK wallet 3.0.0-rc.1 (28:04) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #26988 (30:39) ● Bitcoin Core #34692 (32:22) ● LDK #4304 (33:21) ● LDK #4416 (35:41) ● LND #10089 (38:01) ● Libsecp256k1 #1777 (39:46) ● BIPs #2047 (42:39) ● BOLTs #1316 (46:42) ● BOLTs #1312 (47:26)

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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #396 is here: - describes a collision-resistant hash function using Bitcoin Script - summarizes continued discussion of Lightning Network traffic analysis - Optech Newsletter #396 Podcast bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters…

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter streaming live on X/Twitter Tuesday at 16:30 UTC.

Jonathan Harvey-Buschel (@jonhbit) posted updates about Gossip Observer, a tool for collecting LN gossip traffic and computing metrics to evaluate replacing message flooding with a set-reconciliation-based protocol… #continued-discussion-of-gossip-observer-traffic-analysis-tool" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters…

@darosior @theblackmarble @Ethan_Heilman You can listen on our website: bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/202… Fountain: fountain.fm/episode/662j7D… Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0rTY9h… Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bit…

Jon McAlpine, Antoine Poinsot (@darosior), Mike Casey (@theblackmarble), and Ethan Heilman (@Ethan_Heilman) joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #395: News ● A standard for stateless VTXO verification (1:31) ● Draft BIP for expanded `nVersion` nonce space for miners (1:23:45) Changing consensus ● Extensions to standard tooling for TEMPLATEHASH-CSFS-IK support (13:52) ● Hourglass V2 update (25:40) ● Algorithm agility for Bitcoin (51:15) ● The limitations of cryptographic agility in Bitcoin (1:05:15) Releases and release candidates ● Bitcoin Core 28.4rc1 (1:36:53) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #33616 (1:38:30) ● Bitcoin Core #34616 (1:42:23) ● Eclair #3256 (1:46:20) ● Eclair #3258 (1:48:34) ● Eclair #3255 (1:50:14) ● LDK #4402 (1:52:27) ● LND #10604 (1:53:56) ● BIPs #1699 (1:55:34) ● BIPs #2106 (1:57:30) ● BIPs #2068 (2:01:28) ● BOLTs #1301 (2:04:54)

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Correction, the Optech Recap X/Twitter live stream will be at 16:30 UTC today. We will be joined by Jgmcalpine, Antoine Poinsot (@darosior), Mike Casey (@theblackmarble), and Ethan Heilman (@Ethan_Heilman)

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter streaming live on X/Twitter Tuesday at 17:30 UTC.

Pieter Wuille wrote to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list about the limitations of the cryptographic agility... #the-limitations-of-cryptographic-agility-in-bitcoin" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters…

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #395 is here: - describes a standard for verifying VTXOs across different Ark implementations - links to a draft BIP for expanding the miner-usable nonce space in the block header’s nVersion field - points to extensions to standard tooling for TEMPLATEHASH-CSFS-IK support - summarizes updates to the Hourglass V2 proposal - examines perspectives on cryptographic algorithm agility for Bitcoin - Optech Newsletter #395 Podcast