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2024-01-24 12:35:46

Bitcoin Optech on Nostr: Bitcoin Optech newsletter #286 is here: - announces a fixed consensus failure in ...

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #286 is here:

- announces a fixed consensus failure in older versions of btcd
- describes proposed changes to LN for v3 transaction relay and ephemeral anchors
- announces a new repository for Bitcoin-related specifications
- summarizes changes to services/client software
- adds a Trimmed HTLC topic
- Optech Newsletter #286 Recap on Twitter Spaces
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/24/

Niklas Gögge used Delving Bitcoin to announce a consensus failure in older versions of btcd that he had previously responsibly disclosed. Relative timelocks were added to Bitcoin in a soft fork by adding consensus-enforced meaning to transaction input sequence numbers...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/24/#disclosure-of-fixed-consensus-failure-in-btcd

Bastien Teinturier posted to Delving Bitcoin to describe the changes he thinks should be made to the LN specification to make effective use of v3 transaction relay and ephemeral anchors...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/24/#proposed-changes-to-ln-for-v3-relay-and-ephemeral-anchors

Anthony Towns posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list to announce a new repository for protocol specifications, Bitcoin Inquisition Numbers And Names Authority (BINANA). Four specifications are available in the repository at the time of writing...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/24/#new-documentation-repository

Changes to services and client software:

- Envoy 1.5 released
- Liana v4.0 released
- Mercury Layer announced
- AQUA wallet announced
- Samourai Wallet announces atomic swap feature
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/24/#changes-to-services-and-client-software

Trimmed HTLCs are forwardable LN payments that are below a channel’s economic limit for being resolved onchain. Instead, a commitment transaction that goes onchain pays the value of all trimmed HTLCs to transaction fees...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/trimmed-htlc/

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guests Niklas Gögge, Bastien Teinturier, and Anthony Towns on Twitter Spaces Thursday at 15:00 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1YqxoDOBNRZKv
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