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

• Seeking concept ACKs for transaction terminology BIP
• RGB protocol announcement
• Civ Kit: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Market System
• Proposal to Remove BIP35 P2P ‘mempool’ Message
• Conjectures on solving the high interactivity issue in payment pools and channel factories
• A new Bitcoin implementation integrated with Core Lightning
• Vaults in the MATT framework
• proposal: new opcode OP_ZKP to enable ZKP-based spending authorization
• On adaptor security (in protocols)

lightning-dev

• Proposed changes to the splicing specification
• Splice Lock Race Condition Solution

Meetings

• Bitcoin PR Review Club
  • #27255 MiniTapscript: port Miniscript to Tapscript: part 1 and part 2
  • #27039 Do not flush block to disk if it is already there
  • #27460 Add importmempool RPC

Optech

• Newsletter #244, audio recap
• Newsletter #240, audio recap
• Newsletter #240, audio recap
• Newsletter #240, audio recap
• Newsletter #240, audio recap

CVEs and Research

InfoSec

• i2pd specific attack
• How to stop the onion denial (of service)
• Network DDoS
• Tor Project shares proposals to limit DDoS impact on Onion sites
• A First Take at Pow Over Introduction Circuits

Pull Requests and repo updates

Bitcoin Core

• Add pool based memory resource
• addrman: Enable selecting addresses by network
• p2p: update hardcoded mainnet seeds for 25.x
• mempool: disallow txns under min relay fee, even in packages
• p2p: skip netgroup diversity of new connections for tor/i2p/cjdns

LND

• watchtower: start using the DeleteSession message
• funding: add fundmax flag to OpenChannelRequest

LDK

• Only disable ~10 min after disconnect, rather than one

Eclair

• Add support for splices

Core-Lightning

• List runes
• Zero fee htlc prep part #3: Block estimates, and the Return of RBF

Bitcoin-inquisition

• Pseudo ephemeral anchors

[BOLT]

• extension-bolt: taproot gossip

New Releases

• libsecp256k1 v0.3.1 released

Mining

• Stratum V2 adds Job Negotiator