Bitcoin Optech newsletter #268 is here:
- links to draft specifications related to taproot assets
- describes a summary of several alternative message protocols for LN that can help enable the use of PTLCs
- recaps the BIP324 "Transport abstraction" PR Review Meeting
- adds a Client-side validation topic
- Optech Newsletter #268 Recap on Twitter Spaces
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/09/13/
Olaoluwa Osuntokun posted separately to the Bitcoin-Dev and Lightning-Dev mailing lists about the Taproot Assets client-side validation protocol. To the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list, he announced seven draft BIPs...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/09/13/#specifications-for-taproot-assets
As the first LN implementation with experimental support for channels using P2TR and MuSig2 is expected to be released soon, Greg Sanders posted to the Lightning-Dev mailing list a summary of several different previously-discussed changes to LN messages to allow them to support sending payments with PTLCs instead of HTLCs...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/09/13/#ln-messaging-changes-for-ptlcs
'Transport abstraction' is a recently-merged PR by Pieter Wuille (sipa) that introduces a transport abstraction (interface class). This PR is part of the BIP324 Version 2 P2P Encrypted Transport Protocol project...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/09/13/#bitcoin-core-pr-review-club
Client-side validation protocols allow a Bitcoin transaction to commit to some data whose validity is determined separate from the validity of the transaction under Bitcoin’s consensus rules. The client-side validation can take advantage of consensus rules, such as only allowing an output to be spent once within a valid block chain, but it may also impose additional rules known only to those interested in the validation...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/client-side-validation/
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guests Olaoluwa Osuntokun, Greg Sanders, and Pieter Wuille on Twitter Spaces Thursday at 15:00 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1ypKddqdRLjKW
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