Bitcoin Optech on Nostr: Bitcoin Optech newsletter #280 is here: - describes several discussions about the ...

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #280 is here:

- describes several discussions about the proposed cluster mempool
- summarizes the results of a test performed using warnet
- recaps the "Testing Bitcoin Core 26.0 Release Candidates" PR Review Meeting
- Bitcoin Core 26.0
- Optech Newsletter #280 Recap on Twitter Spaces
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/12/06/

Bitcoin Core developers working on cluster mempool started a working group (WG) on the Delving Bitcoin forum. Cluster mempool is a proposal to make it much easier to operate on the mempool while respecting the required ordering of transactions...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/12/06/#cluster-mempool-discussion

Matthew Zipkin posted to Delving Bitcoin with the results of some simulations he’s run using warnet, a program that launches a large number of Bitcoin nodes with a defined set of connections between them...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/12/06/#testing-with-warnet

The 'Testing Bitcoin Core 26.0 Release Candidates' review club meeting did not review a particular PR, but rather was a group testing effort.

Before each major Bitcoin Core release, extensive testing by the community is considered essential...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/12/06/#bitcoin-core-pr-review-club

Bitcoin Core 26.0 is the next major version of the predominant full-node implementation. The release includes experimental support for the version 2 transport protocol, support for taproot in miniscript, new RPCs for working with states for assumeUTXO, and an experimental RPC for processing packages of transactions...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/12/06/#bitcoin-core-26-0

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guests Pieter Wuille and Matthew Zipkin on Twitter Spaces Thursday at 15:00 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1djGXNzDQRXxZ