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

• Great Consensus Cleanup Revival
• BIP324 Proxy: easy integration of v2 transport protocol for light clients (PoC)
• Mempool Based Fee Estimation on Bitcoin Core
• BTC Lisp as an alternative to Script
• DSL for experimenting with contracts
• Second Look at Weak Blocks
• Basic vault prototype using OP_CAT

Mailing Lists

bitcoindev

• The Future of Bitcoin Testnet
• Great Consensus Cleanup Revival
• Adding New BIP Editors

Meetings

• Bitcoin PR Review Club
  • #29221 Implement 64 bit arithmetic op codes in the Script interpreter
  • Testing Bitcoin Core 27.0 Release Candidates

Optech

• Newsletter #293, audio recap
• Newsletter #294, audio recap
• Newsletter #295, audio recap
• Newsletter #296, audio recap
• Newsletter #297, audio recap
• Newsletter #298, audio recap

CVEs and Research

Research

• BitVM 2: Permissionless Verification on Bitcoin
• Hedgehog: A protocol for asynchronous layer two bitcoin payments

InfoSec

• Libbitcoin response to CVE-2023-39910 / Milk Sad

Pull Requests and repo updates

Bitcoin Core

• Mempool util: Add RBF diagram checks for single chunks against clusters of size 2
• p2p: Allow whitelisting manual connections
• net: support unix domain sockets for -proxy and -onion
• RPC: Add maxfeerate and maxburnamount args to submitpackage
• wallet: Add createwalletdescriptor and gethdkeys RPCs for adding new automatically generated descriptors

LND

• 2/3: Support Forwarding of Blinded Payments

New Releases

• Bitcoin Core 27.0 released
• Bitcoin Core 26.1 released
• phoenixd v0.1.0
• phoenixd-lnurl v0.1.0

Mining

• 0xB10C: ViaBTC’s mutated blocks without witness data
• 0xB10C: halving stream
• 0xB10C: mining pools sharing block templates and transaction prioritization
• Mara pool funny block
• Stratum Reference Implementation 1.0.0
• BlueMatt: Stop Calling It MEV
• Braiins Becomes First Mining Pool To Introduce Lightning Payouts
• Ocean leaving 37 BTC in fees on the table

Privacy

• Teleport Transactions

Miscellaneous

• CVE-2024-3094: Timeline of the xz open source attack
  • Everything I Know About the XZ Backdoor
  • OSS-security post
  • FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor
  • Infographic
• Craig Wright Is Not Bitcoin Creator Satoshi Nakamoto, Judge Declares
• Transaction ordering could be used to store information
• Safety Net
• ajtowns: Team Slow and Steady