This week’s newsletter describes a proposal for a new managed joinpool protocol and summarizes an idea for relaying transactions using the Nostr protocol. Also included is another entry in our limited weekly series about mempool policy, plus our regular sections summarizing notable questions and answers posted to the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, listing new software releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.| Bitcoin Optech
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to relay weak blocks to improve compact block performance in a network with multiple divergent mempool policies and announces the addition of five BIP editors. Also included are our regular sections with selected questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and summaries of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.| Bitcoin Optech
This week’s newsletter describes a proposed contract for trustless miner feerate futures, links to a coin selection algorithm for LN nodes providing dual funding liquidity, details a prototype for a vault using OP_CAT, and discusses sending and receiving ecash using LN and ZKCPs. Also included are our regular sections summarizing popular questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing recent changes to popular Bitcoin inf...| Bitcoin Optech
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal for providing DNS-based human-readable Bitcoin payment instructions, summarizes a post with thoughts about mempool incentive compatibility, links to a thread discussing the design of Cashu and other ecash systems, briefly looks at continuing discussion about 64-bit arithmetic in Bitcoin scripts (including a specification for a previously proposed opcode), and gives an overview of an improved reproducible ASMap creation process. Also included are o...| Bitcoin Optech
This week’s newsletter shares the disclosure of past vulnerabilities in LND, summarizes a proposal for fee-dependent timelocks, describes an idea for improving fee estimation using transaction clusters, discusses how to specify unspendable keys in descriptors, examines the cost of pinning in the v3 transaction relay proposal, mentions a proposed BIP to allow descriptors to be included in PSBTs, announces a tool that can be used with the MATT proposal to prove a program executed correctly, l...| Bitcoin Optech
This week’s newsletter describes several discussions about the proposed cluster mempool and summarizes the results of a test performed using warnet. Also included are our regular sections summarizing a meeting of the Bitcoin Core PR Review Club, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.| Bitcoin Optech
This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to allow retrieval of LN offers using specific DNS addresses similar to lightning addresses. Also included are our regular sections summarizing changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.| Bitcoin Optech
This week’s newsletter describes fraud proofs for outdated backup state and includes our regular sections summarizing recent changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.| Bitcoin Optech