This week’s newsletter describes a proposed contract protocol for mitigating Lightning Network channel jamming, reports on the availability of static Bitcoin Core binaries for testing, and summarizes a change replacing Bitcoin Core’s per-peer transaction rate-limiting with a global approach. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing…
This week’s newsletter describes a draft BIP for relaying stale block tips between peers. Also included are our regular sections summarizing proposals and discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Rob Hamilton, PortlandHODL, Chandra Pratap, and fabohax to discuss Newsletter #416.
This week’s newsletter warns about a severe vulnerability affecting wallets generated by COLDCARD signing devices, summarizes the disclosure of two denial-of-service vulnerabilities in Core Lightning, and describes a proof of concept for a zero-knowledge proof of reserves. Also included are our regular sections with selected questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements of…
This week’s newsletter describes a draft BIP for full aggregation of BIP340 signatures. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
This week’s newsletter describes a new project to apply formal verification to the Bitcoin protocol. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.