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This week’s newsletter summarizes an analysis of mining pool difficulty controllers stranding slowed miners, describes a proposed improvement to Utreexo’s initial block download, and links to a draft BIP for specifying unspendable taproot internal keys. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software, announcing new releases an...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Adam Gibson and Rob Segers to discuss Newsletter #422.

This week’s newsletter describes a proposed protocol for probabilistic coinjoins disguised as covert bets and summarizes benchmarks of a silent payments indexing server against compact block filters for light clients. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software....

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by average_gary, Erick Cestari, Conduition, and Greg Sanders to discuss Newsletter #421.

This week’s newsletter describes an idea for pools to pay miners using silent payments in the coinbase transaction and summarizes the responsible disclosure of a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting older versions of Core Lightning. Also included are our regular sections summarizing proposals and discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new release...