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This week’s newsletter links to draft BIPs for exfiltration-resistant signing, summarizes the disclosure of three vulnerabilities affecting older versions of Bitcoin Core, announces a plan for mining the testnet5 genesis block, and describes an investigation into degraded…
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by 0xB10C, Luke Carriere, and Sjors Provoost to discuss Newsletter #430. The Bitcoin Optech Podcast and transcription content is licensed Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 News ● Continued discussion of TCP…
This week’s newsletter summarizes continued discussion about using TCP hole punching to make nodes behind home routers reachable and describes a draft BIP for standardizing the spending policies that co-signers enforce when emulating covenants. Also included are our regular…
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Elias Rohrer, Greg Sanders, Antoine Poinsot, Oleksandr Kurbatov, and Nishant Bansal to discuss Newsletter #429. The Bitcoin Optech Podcast and transcription content is licensed Creative Commons CC BY-SA…
This week’s newsletter describes a protocol for creating silent payment transactions from multiparty wallets, summarizes the responsible disclosure of a denial-of-service vulnerability that affected older versions of Core Lightning, and explains Bitcoin Core’s updated security…
Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Brandon Black are joined by Adam Gibson, Vincenzo Palazzo, and João Dias to discuss Newsletter #428. The Bitcoin Optech Podcast and transcription content is licensed Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 News ● Trust-minimized exits from a single-issuer layer…
This week’s newsletter describes a design for a single-issuer layer 2 whose users can redeem their bitcoin onchain without the issuer’s cooperation and summarizes a proposal for including hash preimages in output script descriptors. Also included are our regular sections…
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Erick Cestari and Adam Gibson to discuss Newsletter #427. The Bitcoin Optech Podcast and transcription content is licensed Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0 News ● Disclosure of two DoS vulnerabilities…
This week’s newsletter summarizes the disclosure of two denial-of-service vulnerabilities in older versions of Eclair and describes a proposed scheme for running complex multi-round contracts inside Lightning channels. Also included are our regular sections announcing new…