Announcements

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General Links

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

Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech

Mailing Lists

bitcoin-dev

• Refreshed BIP324
• BIP proposal: Fee-redistribution contracts
• Codex32
• Using service bit 24 for utreexo signaling in testnet and signet
• BIP for OP_VAULT
• Minimum fees

lightning-dev

• Highly Available Lightning Channels
• On watchtowers and accumulators

Meetings

• Bitcoin PR Review Club
  • #25038 nVersion=3 and Package RBF part 1 and part 2
  • #25325 Add pool based memory resource
  • #27006 Reduce cs_main scope, guard block index ‘nFile’ under a local mutex
  • #27050 Don’t download witnesses for assumed-valid blocks when running in prune mode
  • #26403 Ephemeral Anchors

Optech

• Newsletter #240, audio recap
• Newsletter #241, audio recap
• Newsletter #242, audio recap
• Newsletter #243, audio recap

Network Data

• Default mempools full, minimum feerate consistently above 1sat/vB

Pull Requests and repo updates

Bitcoin Core

• #27255: MiniTapscript: port Miniscript to Tapscript
• #27261: Ignore datacarrier limits for dataless OP_RETURN outputs
• #27213: p2p: Diversify automatic outbound connections with respect to networks
• #27101: Support JSON-RPC 2.0 when requested by client
• #27278: Log new headers
• #27068: wallet: SecureString to allow null characters
• #25740: assumeutxo: background validation completion
• #26177: refactor / kernel: Move non-gArgs chainparams functionality to kernel
• #26531: mempool: Add mempool tracepoints

LND

• #7448 lnwallet: add new rebroadcaster interface, use for background tx publish

LDK

• #1977 BOLT12 deserialization fuzzers
• #1988 Limit the number of pending un-funded inbound channel

Eclair

• #2596 Limit number of RBF attempts during dual funding

Bitcoin-inquisition

• #22 Add annex data carrier option behind -annexcarrier option
• #23 Pseudo Ephemeral Anchors

BIPs

• #1372: Add BIP MuSig2
• #1421: Add OP_VAULT (BIP 345)

[BOLT]

• #765: Route Blinding

New Releases

• mempool.space v2.5.0
• lnd v0.16.0-beta.rc1
• ldk v0.0.114
• core lightning v23.02.2

Miscellaneous

• Validating Lightning Signer
• Lightning for Everyone in Any App