Announcements

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Presentation

• Rachel Rybarczyk on Stratum v2

Mailing Lists Bitcoin Optech

Mailing Lists

bitcoin-dev

lightning-dev

dlc-dev

Optech

• Newsletter #198
• Newsletter #199
• Newsletter #200
• Newsletter #201

Meetings

• Bitcoin PR Review Club
  • 24584 - Avoid mixing different OutputTypes during coin selection
  • 24410 - [kernel 2a/n] Split hashing/index GetUTXOStats codepaths, decouple from coinstatsindex (utxo db and indexes)
  • 24148 - Miniscript support in Output Descriptors (part 1) (wallet)
  • 24148 - Miniscript support in Output Descriptors (part 2) (wallet)
• Bitcoin Core general developer meetings
  • April 28th
  • May 5th
  • May 12th
  • May 19th
• Bitcoin Core wallet meetings
  • May 20th
• dlc-specs meetings
  • May 10th
• Lightning specification meetings
  • May 9th
  • May 23th

Network Data

• Binance Consolidation Dump
• Bitcoin Is Halfway To The Next Halving
• Bitcoin Hash Rate, Mining Difficulty Hit New All-Time Highs

Research

• Package Relay proposal (ML)
• OP_TX proposal (ML)
• Private authentication protocols
• ROAST: Robust Asynchronous Schnorr Threshold Signatures

InfoSec

• ICE tracks warrantlessly 3 in 4 adults in USA

Pull Requests and repo updates

Bitcoin Core

• script: add script to generate example bitcoin.conf

eclair

Core Lightning

lnd

• Add new MuSig22 RPC methods to signrpc

rust-lightning

BOLTS

New Releases

• Sparrow v1.6.4 with dust attack detection

Events and Podcasts

Mining

• Nathaniel Harmon: Turning Ocean Thermal to Hashrate
• Bitcoin ASIC Prices Have Fallen to the Lowest Levels since 2021
• Bitcoin Hashrate returns to China
• Economics of Immersion Cooling for Bitcoin Miners
• Texas Bitcoin Miners Turn off to Conserve Power for the Grid
• The Future of Energy Markets According to Bitcoin Miners

Miscellaneous

• Super Testnet Bitcoin Chess: Using Key Tweaking
• What Terra’s Collapse Teaches About ‘Crypto’ and Bitcoin
• How El Salvador Introduced 44 Countries To Bitcoin This Week
• A Framework for Sustainable Open-Source Bitcoin Development
• Bitcoin Core v23 2.3% faster