OriginalSize on Nostr: I should spend more time following this stuff. As we near 100k it's a great time to ...
I should spend more time following this stuff. As we near 100k it's a great time to catch up!
quoting nevent1q…lcdfBitcoin Optech newsletter #329 is here:
- summarizes a new offchain payment resolution protocol
- links to papers about potential IP-layer tracking and censorship of LN payments
- BTCPay Server security fixes
- adds an LN-Penalty topic
- adds a Timeout trees topic
- Optech Newsletter #329 Recap on Twitter Spaces
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/11/15/
John Law posted to Delving Bitcoin the description of a micropayment protocol that requires both participants to contribute funds to a bond that can be effectively destroyed at any time by either participant...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/11/15/#mad-based-offchain-payment-resolution-opr-protocol
Charmaine Ndolo posted to Delving Bitcoin summaries of two recent papers about reducing the privacy of LN payments and potentially censoring them...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/11/15/#papers-about-ip-layer-censorship-of-ln-payments
BTCPay Server 2.0.3 and 1.13.7 are maintenance releases that include security critical fixes for users of certain plugins and features...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/11/15/#btcpay-server-2-0-3
LN-Penalty is a state protocol that penalizes a party who publishes a past state by allowing their funds to be seized by their counterparty...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/ln-penalty/
Timeout trees are a type of trustless contract protocol that produces a tree of offchain transactions that only remain safe against counterparty theft for a limited period of time (i.e., they time out)...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/timeout-trees/
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Twitter Spaces Tuesday at 15:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://x.com/i/spaces/1lDxLlkMpnvxm