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Presentation

• Pieter Wuille - Cluster Mempool

Mailing Lists, Meetings and Bitcoin Optech

Mailing Lists

bitcoin-dev

• Altruistic Rebroadcasting - A Partial Replacement Cycling Mitigation
• bip-0127 “Simple Proof-of-Reserves Transactions”

lightning-dev

• Liquidity Ads and griefing subtleties
• The remote anchor of anchor channels is redundant

Delving Bitcoin

• Warnet Simulations
• LN OM-mixer services
• Lamport signatures and other CAT tricks
• Quick peer gossip catchup protocol
• Liquidity griefing in multi-party transaction protocols
• GutterGuard and CoinGrinder Simulation results
• A High-Privacy Key-Value Store

Meetings

• Bitcoin PR Review Club
  • #28690 Introduce internal kernel library
  • #28956 Nuke adjusted time (attempt 2)
• Bitcoin Core general developer meetings
  • November 30
  • December 7
• Lightning Specification meeting
  • December 4

Optech

• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #281
• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #280
• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #280 Recap Podcast
• Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #279 Recap Podcast

Network Data

• Atomicals inscriptions filling mempool
• Ethereum “builder” OFAC censorship reaches 80%
• Ocean finds their first block
  • Coin Age prioritization, not including inscriptions, txs with op_return data >40 bytes being filtered, including whirlpool
• Ordinal-style PSBT trades are currently using almost as much blockspace as fresh inscriptions.
• ordpool.space
• Runes (op_return) adoption increasing
• Significant portion of hashrate sending funds to custodian?
• State of the Network’s Q4 2023 Mining Data Special

CVEs and Research

Research

• BNS: A Detection System to Find Nodes in the Bitcoin Network
• Cache Side-Channel Attacks Through Electromagnetic Emanations of DRAM Accesses
• Crystal: Enhancing Blockchain Mining Transparency with Quorum Certificate
• Demystifying DeFi MEV Activities in Flashbots Bundle
• Less Is More: Understanding Network Bias in Proof-of-Work Blockchains
• Multi-Signatures for Ad-hoc and Privacy-Preserving Group Signing
• Optimizing Closed Payment Networks on the Lightning Network: Dual Central Node Approach
• RACED: Routing in Payment Channel Networks Using Distributed Hash Tables
• Trade-off of Security, Latency, and Throughput of the Nakamoto Consensus
• Understanding Ethereum Mempool Security under Asymmetric DoS by Symbolic Fuzzing

InfoSec

• Ledger connect-kit npm module hit with supply chain attack
• SLAM: Spectre based on Linear Address Masking

Pull Requests and repo updates

Bitcoin Core

• build: disable external-signer for Windows
• wallet: skip BnB when SFFO is enabled
• wallet: Pass through transaction locktime and preset input sequences and scripts to CreateTransaction
• fuzz: p2p: Detect peer deadlocks
• fuzz: Improve fuzzing stability for txorphan harness
• net: Continuous ASMap health check
• rpc: fix getrawtransaction segfault
• script, assumeutxo: Enhance validations in utxo_snapshot.sh
• Fee Estimator updates from Validation Interface/CScheduler thread
• rpc: keep .cookie file if it was not generated
• bugfix, Change up submitpackage results to return results for all transactions

rust-bitcoin

• Fully encapsulate bitcoinconsensus
• TaprootMerkleBranch improvements
• Fix: TxOut::minimal_non_dust and Script::dust_value

libsecp

• Add CONTRIBUTING.md
• field: Remove x86_64 asm

Core Lightning

• Implement is_some for cln_rpc::options::Value
• coin_mvt: use the lightning_hrp for all coin movement currency

eclair

• Dip into remote initiator reserve only for splices
• Add a txOut field to our InteractiveTxBuilder.Input interface

LDK

• Direct connect for OnionMessage sending
• Route blinding: support forwarding as the intro node
• Support receiving to multi-hop blinded paths
• Refactor commitment broadcast to always go through OnchainTxHandler
• Provide inbound HTLC preimages to the EcdsaChannelSigner

lnd

• tlv: add new RecordT[T] utility type
• neutrino remove sweeptx
• multi: query chan update timestamps
• rpc: add gettx command to walletrpc
• routing: launch fetchFundingTx in goroutine so router can exit

New Releases

• Bitcoin Core v26.0

Events and Podcasts

• Bitcoin Explained 086 - Ocean Tides
• SLP531 How Many People Can Use Lightning? with Severin Bühler

Miscellaneous

• Ark Developer Docs
• Bitcoin Time Locks
• Challenges with Estimating Transaction Fee Rates
• Comparing the Lightning Network to validia chains and validity rollups
• Libre Relay
• Package aware fee estimation
• Perl Advent Calendar: Santa tackles Bitcoin, part one
• Review Technical Bitcoin Transcripts and Earn Sats
• Spiral renews grant for Johannes Hoffman
• STARK proof for BitVM circuit execution
• Stratumv2 DEMAND POOL solo mining instructions
• TABConf 2024 Announced