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

• Introduction to cluster linearization
• Cluster mempool: block building with sub-chunk granularity
• Hyperion: A discrete time network event simulator for Bitcoin (Core)
• Bitcoin OP_CAT Use Cases Series #4: Recursive Covenants
• Empirical Data Analysis of Fee Rate Forecasters for ASAP (next-block) Fee Estimation
• OP_CAT Use cases series 3 : vaults

Mailing Lists

bitcoindev

• A “Free” Relay Attack Taking Advantage of The Lack of Full-RBF In Core
• Mining pools, stratumv2 and oblivious shares
• BIP Draft: “ChillDKG: Distributed Key Generation for FROST”
• Public disclosure of 10 vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core < 0.21.0

Meetings

• Bitcoin PR Review Club
  • #29775 Testnet4 including PoW difficulty adjustment fix

Optech

• Newsletter #309, audio recap
• Newsletter #310, audio recap
• Newsletter #311, audio recap
• Newsletter #312, audio recap
• Newsletter #313, audio recap

InfoSec

• July 9th-10th 2024: Wasabi Wallet Security Incident Disclosure

Pull Requests and repo updates

Bitcoin Core

• cluster mempool: cluster linearization algorithm
• prune, rpc: Check undo data when finding pruneheight
• wallet: Migrate legacy wallets to descriptor wallets without requiring BDB
• Wallet: Add max_tx_weight to transaction funding options (take 2)
• Fee Estimation: change estimatesmartfee default mode to economical
• multiprocess: Add IPC wrapper for Mining interface

BIPs

• 328, 390, 373: BIPs for MuSig2 derivation, descriptors, and PSBT fields
• bip-0046: Address Scheme for Timelocked Fidelity Bonds

New Releases

• Bitcoin Core v26.2
• InvoiceNinja + BTCPayServer integration
• Mempool Accelerator
• Proton Wallet and andromeda
• TwelveCash
• Cardcoins Additive RBF Batcher (announcement)
• satsto.me (announcement)

Events and Podcasts

• The Bitcoin Development Podcast Episode 4: Discussing Pre-0.21.0 Bitcoin Core Vulnerability Disclosures

Mining

• Core Scientific and Block collaborate on mining chip

Miscellaneous

• “Definitive explanation of my weird Bitcoin transaction”
• Announcing the OpenSats Education Initiative
• Decentralized Web Nodes announcement (docs)
• The Nakamoto Project: Understanding Bitcoin Adoption in the United States (announcement)
• Casa: Secure your bitcoin with a YubiKey (announcement)
• Phoenix Wallet adds support for BOLT12 and BIP-353
• “a bitaxe found a block”