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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #285 is here:
- discloses a past vulnerability affecting Core Lightning
- announces two new soft fork proposals
- provides an overview of the cluster mempool proposal
- relays information about an updated specification and implementation of transaction compression
- summarizes a discussion about Miner Extractable Value (MEV) in non-zero ephemeral anchors
- adds an Ark topic
- Optech Newsletter #285 Recap on Twitter Spaces
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/17/
Matt Morehouse used Delving Bitcoin to announce a vulnerability he had previously responsibly disclosed that affected Core Lightning versions 23.02 through 23.05.2...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/17/#disclosure-of-past-vulnerability-in-core-lightning
Brandon Black posted to Delving Bitcoin details about a soft fork that combines previous proposals for OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (CTV) and OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK (CSFS) with a new proposal for an OP_INTERNALKEY that places the taproot internal key on the stack...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/17/#new-lnhance-combination-soft-fork-proposed
Chris Stewart posted a draft BIP to Delving Bitcoin for enabling 64-bit arithmetic operations on Bitcoin in a future soft fork. Bitcoin currently only allows 32-bit operations...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/17/#proposal-for-64-bit-arithmetic-soft-fork
Suhas Daftuar posted a summary of the cluster mempool proposal to Delving Bitcoin. Optech attempted to summarize the current state of cluster mempool discussion in Newsletter #280 but we would strongly recommend reading the overview by Daftuar, who is one of the architects of the proposal...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/17/#overview-of-cluster-mempool-proposal
Tom Briar posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list an updated draft specification and proposed implementation of compressed Bitcoin transactions...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/17/#updated-specification-and-implementation-of-bitcoin-transaction-compression
Gregory Sanders posted to Delving Bitcoin to discuss concerns about ephemeral anchor outputs that contain more than 0 satoshis...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/17/#discussion-of-miner-extractable-value-mev-in-non-zero-ephemeral-anchors
Ark is a trustless joinpool-style protocol where a large number of users share a UTXO by accepting a counterparty as a co-signer on all transactions within a certain time period. This spreads the cost of onchain fees from using that UTXO across many users, minimizing their individual costs...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/ark/
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guests Brandon Black, Chris Stewart, and Gregory Sanders on Twitter Spaces Thursday at 15:00 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1ypKdkjOkoYxW
- discloses a past vulnerability affecting Core Lightning
- announces two new soft fork proposals
- provides an overview of the cluster mempool proposal
- relays information about an updated specification and implementation of transaction compression
- summarizes a discussion about Miner Extractable Value (MEV) in non-zero ephemeral anchors
- adds an Ark topic
- Optech Newsletter #285 Recap on Twitter Spaces
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/17/
Matt Morehouse used Delving Bitcoin to announce a vulnerability he had previously responsibly disclosed that affected Core Lightning versions 23.02 through 23.05.2...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/17/#disclosure-of-past-vulnerability-in-core-lightning
Brandon Black posted to Delving Bitcoin details about a soft fork that combines previous proposals for OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (CTV) and OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK (CSFS) with a new proposal for an OP_INTERNALKEY that places the taproot internal key on the stack...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/17/#new-lnhance-combination-soft-fork-proposed
Chris Stewart posted a draft BIP to Delving Bitcoin for enabling 64-bit arithmetic operations on Bitcoin in a future soft fork. Bitcoin currently only allows 32-bit operations...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/17/#proposal-for-64-bit-arithmetic-soft-fork
Suhas Daftuar posted a summary of the cluster mempool proposal to Delving Bitcoin. Optech attempted to summarize the current state of cluster mempool discussion in Newsletter #280 but we would strongly recommend reading the overview by Daftuar, who is one of the architects of the proposal...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/17/#overview-of-cluster-mempool-proposal
Tom Briar posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list an updated draft specification and proposed implementation of compressed Bitcoin transactions...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/17/#updated-specification-and-implementation-of-bitcoin-transaction-compression
Gregory Sanders posted to Delving Bitcoin to discuss concerns about ephemeral anchor outputs that contain more than 0 satoshis...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/17/#discussion-of-miner-extractable-value-mev-in-non-zero-ephemeral-anchors
Ark is a trustless joinpool-style protocol where a large number of users share a UTXO by accepting a counterparty as a co-signer on all transactions within a certain time period. This spreads the cost of onchain fees from using that UTXO across many users, minimizing their individual costs...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/ark/
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guests Brandon Black, Chris Stewart, and Gregory Sanders on Twitter Spaces Thursday at 15:00 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1ypKdkjOkoYxW