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

• BitVM: Compute Anything on Bitcoin
• MATT: [demo] Optimistic execution of arbitrary programs
• Draft BIP: OP_TXHASH and OP_CHECKTXHASHVERIFY
• Proposed BIP for MuSig2 PSBT Fields
• Proposed BIP for MuSig2 Descriptors
• Refreshed BIP324
• Full Disclosure: CVE-2023-40231 / CVE-2023-40232 / CVE-2023-40233 / CVE-2023-40234 “All your mempool are belong to us”
• Batch exchange withdrawal to lightning requires covenants
• Taproot Assets on Mainnet: Announcing tapd v0.3.0-alpha
• Examining ScriptPubkeys in Bitcoin Script
• Breaking change in calculation of hash_serialized_2
• Proposed BIP for OP_CAT

Meetings

• Bitcoin PR Review Club
  • #28107 Type-safe transaction identifiers

Optech

• Newsletter #270, audio recap
• Newsletter #271, audio recap
• Newsletter #272, audio recap
• Newsletter #273, audio recap

CVEs and Research

Research

• BitVM paper

Pull Requests and repo updates

Bitcoin Core

• assumeutxo (2)
• BIP324 integration
• MiniTapscript: port Miniscript to Tapscript
• rpc: allow submitpackage to be called outside of regtest
• rpc: add hidden getrawaddrman RPC to list addrman table entries
• lib: add taproot support to libconsensus

LND

• Support Pathfinding to Blinded Routes

LDK

• Batch funding for v1 channel establishments

BIPs

• bip324: Remove garbage authentication packet (breaking change)

New Releases

• Bitcoin Core 25.1
• Bitcoin Core 24.2 Release Candidates

Miscellaneous

• Runes
• Replacement cycling explanation