Announcements

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General Links

• Bitcoin Optech
• Bitcoin Core PR Review Club
• bitcoin-dev Mailing List
• lightning-dev Mailing List

Delving Bitcoin, Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech

Delving Bitcoin

• Is it time to increase the blocksize cap?
• DoS Disclosure: LND Onion Bomb
• Who will run the CoinJoin coordinators?

Mailing Lists

bitcoindev

• Proposing a P2QRH BIP towards a quantum resistant soft fork
• BIP for Testnet 4
• BIP 21 Updates

Meetings

• Bitcoin PR Review Club
  • #30132 Don’t wipe indexes again when continuing a prior reindex

Optech

• Newsletter #304, audio recap
• Newsletter #305, audio recap
• Newsletter #306, audio recap
• Newsletter #307, audio recap
• Newsletter #308, audio recap

CVEs and Research

Research

• FE’d Up Covenants
• Concurrently Secure Blind Schnorr Signatures, explainer

Pull Requests and repo updates

Bitcoin Core

• Cluster size 2 package rbf
• net_processing: make any misbehavior trigger immediate discouragement
• consensus: Store transaction nVersion as uint32_t
• Introduce Mining interface

LDK

• LDK Node v0.3.0 notably adds support for BOLT12 payments, Anchor channels, and sourcing inbound liquidity via LSPS2 just-in-time channels.

BIPs

• Add BIP 353: DNS Payment Instructions
• BIP431: Opt In Topologically Restricted Until Confirmation Transactions For More Robust Fee-bumping
• BIP 337: Compressed Transactions

New Releases

• Bitcoin Core v27.1
• Introducing Ark V2: a liquidity-efficient Ark design (announcement)

Events and Podcasts

• bitcoin++ eCash in Berlin, October 10 - 12

Mining

• ViaBTC vs AntPool fork
• stratum.work

Privacy

• Nostr CoinJoin coordinators popping up

Ecash

• Cashu (or Fedimint) vs Tether
• Fedimints affected by DNS issues

Miscellaneous

• Mt. Gox to Start Repayments in July
• Integrating silent payments into a unified-balance LN wallet
• A brief history of blocksize proposals
• Blind cosigner for arbitrary predicates
• 12 vs 24 seed words