This week’s newsletter includes the final entry in our limited weekly series about mempool policy, plus our regular sections describing notable changes to clients, services, and popular Bitcoin infrastructure software. Also included are our regular sections with popular questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects. ● C-Lightning 0.6.1 released: this minor update brings several improvements, including “fewer stuck payments, better routing, fewer spurious closes, and several annoying bugs fixed.” The release announcement contains details and links to downloads. This week’s newsletter includes action items related to the security release of Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 and Bitcoin Core 0.17RC4, the newly-proposed BIP322, and Optech’s upcoming Paris workshop; a link to the C-Lightning 0.6.1 release, more information about BIP322, and some details about the Bustapay proposal; plus brief descriptions of notable merges in popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.
● Allocate time to test Bitcoin Core 0.17RC3: Bitcoin Core has uploaded binaries for 0.17 Release Candidate (RC) 3. Testing is greatly appreciated and can help ensure the quality of the final release. ● Optech Paris workshop November 12-13: Binance member signup companies should send us an email to reserve spots for your engineers. Member companies who would like to send engineers to the workshop should email Optech. Whether you like advanced view or classic view is really a matter of personal preference. Update, April 10, 2015: It looks like the page has been deleted from the Bitcoin wiki. 10, Jonas Schnelli has proposed an updated draft of BIP151 encryption for the peer-to-peer network protocol. Cryptographer Tim Ruffing provided constructive criticism of the draft on the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list this week that received also-constructive rebuttals from Schnelli and Gregory Maxwell. Notable code changes this week in Bitcoin Core, LND, and C-lightning. Congratulations to Rust for its first (but not its last) supply-chain attack this week! Testing is greatly appreciated and can help ensure the quality of the final release. This parameter was originally intended to help support private routes, but it can also be used this way to support nodes that no longer want to accept new incoming channels.
This week’s newsletter describes a protocol for simplifying the communication related to mutual closing of LN channels and summarizes notes from a recent meeting of LN developers. This week’s newsletter links to transcripts of recent LN specification meetings and summarizes a thread about the safety of blind MuSig2 signing. This week’s newsletter references a discussion about BIP151 encryption for the peer-to-peer network protocol, provides an update on compatibility between Bitcoin and the W3C Web Payments draft specification, and briefly describes some notable merges in popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects. Globalist Shill Cardano Founder Shares Update on Ethiopia Initiative. All testers of previous release candidates should upgrade. ● Upgrade to Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 to fix denial-of-service vulnerability: a bug introduced in Bitcoin Core 0.14.0 and affecting all subsequent versions through to 0.16.2 will cause Bitcoin Core to crash when attempting to validate a block containing a transaction that attempts to spend the same input twice.
Immediate upgrade is highly recommended. Also included are our regular sections with descriptions of new releases, release candidates, and notable code changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software. ● Allocate time to test Bitcoin Core 0.17RC4: Bitcoin Core will soon be uploading binaries for 0.17 Release Candidate (RC) 4 containing the same patch for the DoS vulnerability described above. 1516: thanks to updates in the upstream Tor daemon, this patch makes it possible for LND to automatically create and set up v3 onion services in addition to its existing v2 automation. This set of financial products is similar to a savings account and is not related to trading. Bitcoin trading fees amount to 1.49% – which again, is expensive. Now, a lot of Bitcoin news covered today is from around the world. See the News section below for additional details. Even if they don’t see general adoption, their privacy advantage means they could end up well deployed among niche users. Although P2EP and Bustapay could end up being implemented by only a few wallets and services similar to the BIP70 payment protocol, there’s also chance they could end up being becoming as widely adopted as wallet support for BIP21 URI handlers.