The last two “long” articles of this blog were dedicated to special kinds of Lightning channels that seek, each in their own way, to enhance the user experience on the Lightning Network. This week, we will dive into anchor outputs, which aim to ensure channel closings are settled quicly, even in the case of a force close. This article will go into details as to how Lightning works in this regard, what are the issues and how anchor outputs can solve them.| fanismichalakis.fr
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
Currently Bitcoin Core implements a Replace-by-Fee (RBF) policy, wheretransactions are not replaced unless the new transaction pays at least a highertotal fe...| petertodd.org
V3 transactions is a proposed set of mempool policies with the aim of allowingtransactions to use Child-Pays-For-Parent (CPFP), anchor outputs, and packagere...| petertodd.org