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

• Announcing Libforesta
• Pull-req to enable Full-RBF by default
• Pull-req to remove the arbitrary limits on OP_Return outputs
• BIP352: Silent Payments
• BIP-352 Silent Payments addresses should have an expiration time
• Concrete MATT opcodes
• Blinded 2-party Musig2
• BIP for Serverless Payjoin
• segwit naming ambiguity
• Sentinel Chains: A Novel Two-Way Peg
• Combined CTV+APO to minimal TXHASH+CSFS
• Private Collaborative Custody with FROST

Meetings

• Bitcoin PR Review Club
  • #27307 Track mempool conflicts with wallet transactions
  • #28122 Silent Payments: Implement BIP352

Optech

• Newsletter #262, audio recap
• Newsletter #263, audio recap
• Newsletter #264, audio recap
• Newsletter #265, audio recap

CVEs and Research

• milk sad disclosure

Pull Requests and repo updates

Bitcoin Core

• policy: Enable full-rbf by default
• Remove arbitrary restrictions on OP_RETURN by default
• set DEFAULT_PERMIT_BAREMULTISIG to false
• rpc: Add importmempool RPC
• p2p: Restrict self-advertisements with privacy networks to avoid fingerprinting
• p2p: Diversify automatic outbound connections with respect to networks
• net: transport abstraction

Miscellaneous

• Waiting for confirmation Optech series
• luke-jr implements BIP300 in Bitcoin Core