Bitcoin Optech newsletter #316 is here:
- describes a new time warp that’s particularly consequential for the new testnet4
- summarizes proposed mitigations for onion message denial-of-service concerns
- seeks feedback on a proposal to allow LN payers to identify themselves
- announces a major change to Bitcoin Core’s build system that could affect developers and integrators
- adds Inbound forwarding fees, Merkle tree vulnerabilities topics
- Optech #316 Recap
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/08/16/
Mark “Murch” Erhardt posted to Delving Bitcoin to describe an attack discovered by developer Zawy for exploiting testnet4’s new difficulty adjustment algorithm...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/08/16/#new-time-warp-vulnerability-in-testnet4
Gijs van Dam posted to Delving Bitcoin to discuss a recent paper by researchers Amin Bashiri and Majid Khabbazian about onion messages...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/08/16/#onion-message-dos-risk-discussion
Bastien Teinturier posted to Delving Bitcoin to propose methods for allowing spenders to optionally include extra data with their payments that would allow receivers to identify those payments as having come from a known contact...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/08/16/#optional-identification-and-authentication-of-ln-payers
Cory Fields posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list to announce Bitcoin Core’s impending switch from the GNU autotools build system to the CMake build system...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/08/16/#bitcoin-core-switch-to-cmake-build-system
Inbound forwarding fees are fees charged by an LN node for accepting a payment for forwarding. The original LN protocol only specifies charging forwarding fees when a node relays the payment to its next hop...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/inbound-forwarding-fees/
Merkle tree vulnerabilities are a class of problems in the design of the merkle tree used by the Bitcoin consensus protocol...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/merkle-tree-vulnerabilities/
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guest Bastien Teinturier on Twitter Spaces Tuesday at 14:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1vOGwrmXkNLKB
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