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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #408

This week’s newsletter summarizes ideas to make BIP324 transport encryption quantum secure and describes a proposal to standardize QR-based signing payloads for miniscript wallets. Also included

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #407

This week’s newsletter announces the responsible disclosure of a vulnerability that allowed a remote peer to crash Core Lightning nodes and links to transcripts from a recent Bitcoin Core developer

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #406

This week’s newsletter links to a discussion of updates to BIP322’s generic signed message format and describes an idea to use TCP hole punching to help Bitcoin nodes behind NATs accept inbound

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #405

This week’s newsletter announces the responsible disclosure of a vulnerability that could allow an attacker with sufficient proof-of-work to crash Bitcoin Core nodes and describes a draft BIP

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #404

This week’s newsletter describes possible solutions to node fingerprinting and links to discussion of using public fraud proofs to improve incentives around just-in-time channels. Also included are

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #403

This week’s newsletter describes research around using binary fuse filters as an alternative to the GCS used in compact block filters. Also included are our regular sections summarizing proposals

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #402

This week’s newsletter describes Hornet Node’s work on a declarative executable specification of consensus rules and summarizes a discussion about onion message jamming in the Lightning Network.

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #401

This week’s newsletter describes an idea for nested MuSig2 Lightning nodes and summarizes a project formally verifying secp256k1’s modular scalar multiplication. Also included are our regular

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #400

This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.

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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #399

This week’s newsletter describes how wallet fingerprinting can damage payjoin privacy and summarizes a proposal for a wallet backup metadata format. Also included are our regular sections