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This week’s newsletter describes a design for a single-issuer layer 2 whose users can redeem their bitcoin onchain without the issuer’s cooperation and summarizes a proposal for including hash preimages in output script descriptors. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates,...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Erick Cestari and Adam Gibson to discuss Newsletter #427.

This week’s newsletter summarizes the disclosure of two denial-of-service vulnerabilities in older versions of Eclair and describes a proposed scheme for running complex multi-round contracts inside Lightning channels. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software...

Gustavo Flores Echaiz is joined by Clara Shikhelman and Elias Rohrer to discuss Newsletter #426.

This week’s newsletter links to a draft BIP for letting peers choose their own one-byte message type IDs over the version 2 P2P transport, summarizes a discussion about whether BIPs should include their number in tagged hash tags, and describes a proposed metaprotocol for private onchain transfers that requires no consensus changes. Also included are our regular sections anno...