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This week’s newsletter summarizes the disclosure of a fixed reorg vulnerability in LND’s channel closes and describes a draft BIP for the rawtr() output script descriptor. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Michael Ford (fanquake) and Martin Zumsande to discuss Newsletter #418.

This week’s newsletter describes a proposed contract protocol for mitigating Lightning Network channel jamming, reports on the availability of static Bitcoin Core binaries for testing, and summarizes a change replacing Bitcoin Core’s per-peer transaction rate-limiting with a global approach. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Conduition, Ram, and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #417.

This week’s newsletter describes a draft BIP for relaying stale block tips between peers. Also included are our regular sections summarizing proposals and discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.