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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #322 is here:
- announces a fixed vulnerability affecting older versions of Bitcoin Core
- provides an update on hybrid channel jamming mitigation
- summarizes a paper about more efficient and private client-side validation
- announces a proposal to update the BIP process
- summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange
- Optech Newsletter #322 Recap on Twitter Spaces
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/09/27/
Antoine Poinsot posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a link to the announcement of a vulnerability affecting versions of Bitcoin Core that have been past their end of life since at least December 2023...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/09/27/#disclosure-of-vulnerability-affecting-bitcoin-core-versions-before-24-0-1
Carla Kirk-Cohen posted to Delving Bitcoin details about various attempts to defeat an implementation of the mitigation for channel jamming attacks originally proposed by Clara Shikhelman and Sergei Tikhomirov...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/09/27/#hybrid-jamming-mitigation-testing-and-changes
Jonas Nick, Liam Eagen, and Robin Linus posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a paper about a new client-side validation protocol. Shielded CSV uses zero-knowledge proofs to allow verification with a fixed amount of resources and without revealing previous transfers...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/09/27/#shielded-client-side-validation-csv
Mark “Murch” Erhardt posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list to announce the availability of a pull request for a draft BIP that describes an updated process for the BIP repository...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/09/27/#draft-of-updated-bip-process
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange:
- What specific verifications are done on a fresh Bitcoin TX and in what order?
- Why is my bitcoin directory larger than my pruning data limit setting?
- What do I need to have set up to have getblocktemplate work?
- Can a silent payment address body be brute forced?
- Why does a tx fail testmempoolaccept BIP125 replacement but is accepted by submitpackage?
- How does the ban score algorithm calculate a ban score for a peer?
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/09/27/#selected-qa-from-bitcoin-stack-exchange
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guests Jon Atack, Gloria Zhao, and Jonas Nick on Twitter Spaces Tuesday at 14:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1mrGmMbAAdBGy
- announces a fixed vulnerability affecting older versions of Bitcoin Core
- provides an update on hybrid channel jamming mitigation
- summarizes a paper about more efficient and private client-side validation
- announces a proposal to update the BIP process
- summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange
- Optech Newsletter #322 Recap on Twitter Spaces
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/09/27/
Antoine Poinsot posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a link to the announcement of a vulnerability affecting versions of Bitcoin Core that have been past their end of life since at least December 2023...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/09/27/#disclosure-of-vulnerability-affecting-bitcoin-core-versions-before-24-0-1
Carla Kirk-Cohen posted to Delving Bitcoin details about various attempts to defeat an implementation of the mitigation for channel jamming attacks originally proposed by Clara Shikhelman and Sergei Tikhomirov...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/09/27/#hybrid-jamming-mitigation-testing-and-changes
Jonas Nick, Liam Eagen, and Robin Linus posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a paper about a new client-side validation protocol. Shielded CSV uses zero-knowledge proofs to allow verification with a fixed amount of resources and without revealing previous transfers...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/09/27/#shielded-client-side-validation-csv
Mark “Murch” Erhardt posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list to announce the availability of a pull request for a draft BIP that describes an updated process for the BIP repository...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/09/27/#draft-of-updated-bip-process
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange:
- What specific verifications are done on a fresh Bitcoin TX and in what order?
- Why is my bitcoin directory larger than my pruning data limit setting?
- What do I need to have set up to have getblocktemplate work?
- Can a silent payment address body be brute forced?
- Why does a tx fail testmempoolaccept BIP125 replacement but is accepted by submitpackage?
- How does the ban score algorithm calculate a ban score for a peer?
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/09/27/#selected-qa-from-bitcoin-stack-exchange
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guests Jon Atack, Gloria Zhao, and Jonas Nick on Twitter Spaces Tuesday at 14:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1mrGmMbAAdBGy