Announcements

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Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech

Mailing Lists

bitcoin-dev

• Seeking concept ACKs for transaction terminology BIP
• Civ Kit: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Market System
• Conjectures on solving the high interactivity issue in payment pools and channel factories
• Proposal to Remove BIP35 P2P ‘mempool’ Message

lightning-dev

• Resizing Lightning Channels Off-Chain With Hierarchical Channels
• Proposed changes to the splicing specification
• Splice Lock Race Condition Solution

Meetings

• Bitcoin PR Review Club
  • 26403: Ephemeral Anchors
  • 27255: MiniTapscript: port Miniscript to Tapscript
  • 27255: MiniTapscript: port Miniscript to Tapscript (Part 2)
  • 27039: Blockstorage: do not flush block to disk if it is already there
• Bitcoin Core Meetings
  • March 30th
  • April 6th
  • April 13th
  • April 20th
• Bitcoin Core Wallet Meeting
  • April 7th
• Bitcoin Contracting Primitives WG
  • April 18th
• Lightning Specification Meeting
  • April 10th

Optech

• Optech Newsletter #245, audio recap
• Optech Newsletter #246
• Optech Newsletter #247

Network Data

• Destination of THNDR Games lightning payments
• F2Pool mines two invalid blocks
• Inscriptions near 80MB of block space in 24 hour period
• Surge in Ordinal inscriptions, daily ATH
• Wallet of Satoshi processing over 30k payments per day

CVEs and Research

Research

• Deep Bribe: Predicting the Rise of Bribery in Blockchain Mining with Deep RL
• Delay Impact on Stubborn Mining Attack Severity in Imperfect Bitcoin Network
• EF/CF: High Performance Smart Contract Fuzzing for Exploit Generation
• Practically-exploitable Cryptographic Vulnerabilities in Matrix
• SPRINT: High-Throughput Robust Distributed Schnorr Signatures
• Subset-optimized BLS Multi-signature with Key Aggregation

InfoSec

• 3CX supply chain attack
• DDoS attackers switching from IoT devices to VPS-based infrastructure to launch attacks
• LUKS using weak KDF
• MEV-Boost-Relay attacked, MEV searchers exploited
• Apple Releases Updates to Address Zero-Day Flaws in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari

Pull Requests and repo updates

Bitcoin Core

• addrman: Enable selecting addresses by network
• Add pool based memory resource
• p2p: update hardcoded mainnet seeds for 25.x

Core Lightning

• listclosedchannels command
• pyln: gossmap … all the way
• gossip: improve handling of self-generated gossip when sending to peers
• Blinded payments are no longer experimental (and other BOLT updates along the way)

eclair

• Add offer manage
• Add support for splices
• Add listreceivedpayments RPC call
• Dynamic funding pubkeys
• Add padding to blinded payment routes

libsecp

• Add x-only ecmult_const version with x specified as n/d

Events and Podcasts

• PMing Bitcoin Core

Mining

• Bitcoin Mining around the world: Kyrgyzstan
• Foundry no longer offering free pool service
• Intel Discontinues Bitcoin-Mining Blockscale Chips, No Future Gens Announced

Miscellaneous

• Bitcoin STAMPs
• Chivo wallet flagging Wasabi coinjoins
• Flow 2.0: A New LSP Focused on Just-In-Time Liquidity
• LDK Roadmap
• ordislow network attack
• Spiral grant awarded to Matt Morehouse
• Small Transactions
• Stratumv2 update
• The Bitcoin Whitepaper Is Hidden in Every Modern Copy of macOS
• Trezor add supports for Wasabi CoinJoins