Announcements

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General Links

• Bitcoin Optech
• Bitcoin Core PR Review Club
• bitcoin-dev Mailing List
• lightning-dev Mailing List

General News

• mempool.space introduces block audits, more rbf data, more
• Voltage releases new LSP on testnet
• The top wallets used to make bitcoin lightning payments
• Mastering Bitcoin v3 early release
• Summer of Bitcoin applications are live
• BitcoinSearch.xyz is a recently-launched search engine for Bitcoin technical documentation and discussions.

Bitcoin

• draft BIP for OP_VAULT
• BDK 1.0 Incoming, the road to BDK 1.0
• Liana 0.2: now with multisig!
• Ordinals, Inscriptions and Openordex

Mailing list/blogs

• SIGHASH_GROUP vs Ephemeral anchors
• Doing a simulation for upfront probing success rates

PRs

• p2p: Make stalling timeout adaptive during IBD [merged]
• p2p: track AddrMan totals by network and table, improve precision of adding fixed seeds [merged]
• p2p, validation: Don’t download witnesses for assumed-valid blocks when running in prune mode [draft]
• Signing support for Miniscript Descriptors [merged]
• OP_CTV [merged] and SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT [merged] in bitcoin-inquisition

Lightning

• LDK Node

Mining

• Fedipool: Fedimint Could Mitigate Bitcoin Mining Pool Concerns