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2024-05-24 15:30:05

Bitcoin Optech on Nostr: Bitcoin Optech newsletter #304 is here: - summarizes analysis of upgrading LN ...

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #304 is here:

- summarizes analysis of upgrading LN channels w/o closing/reopening them
- discusses challenges ensuring pool miners are paid appropriately
- links to discussion about using PSBTs for silent payments
- announces proposed miniscript BIP
- summarizes a proposal for frequent rebalancing of an LN channel to simulate a futures contract
- summarizes changes to services/client software
- adds a pooled mining topic
- Newsletter #304 Recap
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/24/

Carla Kirk-Cohen posted to Delving Bitcoin a summary and analysis of existing proposals for upgrading existing LN channels to support new features. She examines a variety of different cases and compares three previously proposed ideas for upgrading channels...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/24/#upgrading-existing-ln-channels

Ethan Tuttle posted to Delving Bitcoin to suggest that mining pools could reward miners with ecash tokens proportionate to the number of shares they mined...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/24/#challenges-in-rewarding-pool-miners

Josie Baker started a discussion on Delving Bitcoin about PSBT extensions for silent payments (SPs), citing a draft specification by Andrew Toth...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/24/#discussion-about-psbts-for-silent-payments

Ava Chow posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a draft BIP for miniscript...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/24/#proposed-miniscript-bip

Tony Klausing posted to Delving Bitcoin a proposal, with working code, for stable channels...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/24/#channel-value-pegging

Changes to services and client software:

- Silent payment resources
- Cake Wallet adds silent payments
- Coordinator-less coinjoin PoC
- OCEAN adds BOLT12 support
- Coinbase adds Lightning support
- Bitcoin escrow tooling announced
- Block’s call for mining community feedback
- Sentrum wallet tracker released
- Stack Wallet adds FROST support
- Transaction broadcast tool announced
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/24/#changes-to-services-and-client-software

Pooled mining occurs when two or more independent miners collaborate on finding proof of work for new blocks, with them fairly dividing the rewards of any blocks they find...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/pooled-mining/

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guests Andrew Toth, ⁨Antoine Poinsot⁩, and Tony Klausing on Twitter Spaces Monday at 14:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
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