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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #318 is here:

- announces a new mailing list to discuss Bitcoin mining
- summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange
- Bitcoin Core 28.0rc1 release candidate
- Optech Newsletter #318 Recap on Twitter Spaces
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/08/30/

Jay Beddict announced a new mailing list to “discuss emerging Bitcoin mining technology updates as well as the impacts of Bitcoin-related software or protocol changes on mining.”
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/08/30/#new-bitcoin-mining-development-mailing-list

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange:

- Can a BIP152 compact block be sent before validation by a node that doesn’t know all transactions?
- Did Segwit (BIP141) eliminate all txid malleability issues listed in BIP62?
- Why are the checkpoints still in the codebase?
- Bulletproof++ as generic ZKP ala SNARKs?
- How can OP_CAT be used to implement covenants?
- Why do some bech32 bitcoin addresses contain a large number of ‘q’s?
- How does a 0-conf signature bond work?
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/08/30/#selected-qa-from-bitcoin-stack-exchange

Bitcoin Core 28.0rc1 is a release candidate for the next major version of the predominant full node implementation. A testing guide is being prepared...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/08/30/#bitcoin-core-28-0rc1

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Twitter Spaces Tuesday at 14:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1ZkKzRQBYgvKv