Bitcoin Optech newsletter #347 is here:
- describes upfront and hold fees in LN based on burnable outputs
- summarizes discussion about testnets 3 and 4
- announces a plan to relay certain transactions containing taproot annexes
- summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange
- Bitcoin Core 29.0rc2
- Optech Newsletter #347 Recap
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/03/28/
John Law posted to Delving Bitcoin the summary of a paper he’s written about a protocol nodes can use to charge two additional types of fees for forwarding payments...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/03/28/#ln-upfront-and-hold-fees-using-burnable-outputs
Sjors Provoost posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list to ask whether anyone was still using testnet3 now that testnet4 has been available for about six months...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/03/28/#discussion-of-testnets-3-and-4
Peter Todd announced to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list his plan to update his Bitcoin Core-based node, Libre Relay, to begin relaying transactions containing taproot annexes if they follow particular rules...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/03/28/#plan-to-relay-certain-taproot-annexes
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange:
- Why is the witness commitment optional?
- Can all consensus valid 64 byte transactions be (third party) malleated to change their size?
- How long does it take for a transaction to propagate through the network?
- Utility of longterm fee estimation
- Why are two anchor outputs are used in the LN?
- Why are there no BIPs in the 2xx range?
- Why doesn’t Bech32 use the character “b”?
- Bech32 error detection and correction reference implementation
- How to safely spend/burn dust?
- How is the refund transaction in Asymmetric Revocable Commitments constructed?
- Which applications use ZMQ with Bitcoin Core?
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/03/28/#selected-qa-from-bitcoin-stack-exchange
Bitcoin Core 29.0rc2 is a release candidate for the next major version of the network’s predominate full node. Please see the version 29 testing guide.
https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoin-devwiki/wiki/29.0-Release-Candidate-Testing-Guide
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 15:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://riverside.fm/studio/bitcoin-optech
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