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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #336 is here:

- describes a potential change to Bitcoin Core affecting miners
- summarizes discussion about creating contract-level relative timelocks
- discusses a proposal for an LN-Symmetry variant with optional penalties
- Optech Newsletter #336 Recap on Riverside
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/01/10/

Abubakar Sadiq Ismail posted to Delving Bitcoin about a bug discovered in 2021 by Antoine Riard that results in nodes reserving 2,000 vbytes in block templates for coinbase transactions rather than the intended 1,000 vbytes...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/01/10/#investigating-mining-pool-behavior-before-fixing-a-bitcoin-core-bug

Gregory Sanders posted to Delving Bitcoin about finding a solution for a complication he discovered about a year ago when creating a proof-of-concept implementation of LN-Symmetry...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/01/10/#contract-level-relative-timelocks

Daniel Roberts posted to Delving Bitcoin about preventing a malicious channel counterparty (Mallory) from being able to delay channel settlement by deliberately broadcasting old states at a higher feerate than an honest counterparty (Bob) is paying for confirmation of the final state...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/01/10/#multiparty-ln-symmetry-variant-with-penalties-for-limiting-published-updates

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guests Abubakar Sadiq Ismail and Gregory Sanders on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 15:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://riverside.fm/studio/bitcoin-optech