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

• Compressed Bitcoin Transactions
• libsecp256k1 v0.4.0 released
• BIP-????: The Taproot Assets Protocol
• Scaling Lightning With Simple Covenants
• Actuarial System To Reduce Interactivity In N-of-N (N > 2) Multiparticipant Offchain Mechanisms
• Solving CoinPool high-interactivity issue with cut-through update of Taproot leaves

Meetings

• Bitcoin PR Review Club
  • #28165 transport abstraction

Optech

• Newsletter #266, audio recap
• Newsletter #267, audio recap
• Newsletter #268, audio recap
• Newsletter #269, audio recap

CVEs and Research

InfoSec

• Revelio: A Network-Level Privacy Attack in the Lightning Network

Pull Requests and repo updates

Bitcoin Core

• Bump unconfirmed ancestor transactions to target feerate
• default acceptnonstdtxn=0 on all chains
• BIP324 connection support
• BIP324 integration (open)
• build: Produce a .zip for macOS distribution
• rpc: Deprecate rpcserialversion=0
• RPC: descriptorprocesspsbt returns hex encoded tx if complete

LND

• multi: merge simple taproot channels staging branch into master

LDK

• Support constructing blinded path onion keys
• Support third-party watchtowers in persistence pipeline

Eclair

• Add RPC to bump local commit fees

New Releases

• B’SST: Bitcoin-like Script Symbolic Tracer

Miscellaneous

• Bitcoin Optech Podcast Special: Waiting for confirmation
• Machankura announces additive batching feature
• “The mempool is still a PvP zone for ordinals BRC-20 minters.”