Announcements

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General Links

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

Delving Bitcoin, Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech

Delving Bitcoin

• Mempool Incentive Compatibility
• Analysis of attempting to imbue LN commitment transaction spends with v3 semantics
• State minimization in MuSig2 signing sessions
• Perpetually KYC’d Coins Using Evil Covenants
• Revisiting BIP21
• Unilateral Exit
• 64 bit arithmetic soft fork
• OP_INOUT_AMOUNT
• Building Intuition for the Cashu Blind Signature Scheme
• Economic-Majority Signaling for OP_CTV Activation

Mailing Lists

bitcoindev

• bitcoin-dev Mailing List Migration (Action Required)
• Mapping Human-Readable Names to Payment Instructions
• Over Half of Replace-by-Fee-Rate Replacements Are Mined
• Adding New BIP Editors
• Bitcoin Core 27.0 release candidate 1 available

Meetings

• Bitcoin PR Review Club
  • #28950 Add `maxfeerate` and `maxburnamount` args to submitpackage
  • bitcoin-inquisition #39: Re enable OP_CAT
  • bitcoin-inquisition #45: LNHANCE

Optech

• Newsletter #287, audio recap
• Newsletter #288, audio recap
• Newsletter #289, audio recap
• Newsletter #290, audio recap
• Newsletter #291, audio recap
• Newsletter #292, audio recap

Network Data

• Some statistics on the current UTXO set
• Mempool stats

Pull Requests and repo updates

Bitcoin Core

• v3 transaction policy for anti-pinning
• policy: enable sibling eviction for v3 transactions
• wallet: Add CoinGrinder coin selection algorithm
• p2p: Don’t process mutated blocks
• rpc: Drop migratewallet experimental warning

LDK

• Unleashing Liquidity on the Lightning Network with “lightning-liquidity”

Bitcoin-inquisition

• Re enable OP_CAT

BIPs

• Add OP_VAULT (BIP 345)

New Releases

• Bitcoin Core 26.1 Release Candidates
• Bitcoin Core 27.0 Release Candidates
• Mutiny Wallet now available for Android and iOS

Miscellaneous

• Marathon Digital Holdings Launches Slipstream
• Sharing the Code Behind Bitkey
• Swaproot: cheaper and more private on-chain deposits on Phoenix
• Schnorr (Incremental) Half Aggregation #261
• New version of http://learnmeabitcoin.com is now online
• Introducing Portal: the hardware wallet for mobile users
• Lightning Wallets: Self-Custody Despite Poor Network Connection - Best Apps Tested in Zimbabwe 2024