Bitcoin Optech newsletter #343 is here:
- summarizes a post about having full nodes ignore transactions that are relayed without being requested first
- summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange
- Optech Newsletter #343 Recap on Riverside
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/02/28/
Antoine Riard posted to Bitcoin-Dev two draft BIPs that would allow a node to signal that it will no longer accept tx messages that it had not requested using an inv message, called unsolicited transactions...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/02/28/#ignoring-unsolicited-transactions
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange:
- What’s the rationale for how the loadtxsoutset RPC is set up?
- Are there pinning attacks that RBF rule #3 makes impossible?
- Unexpected locktime values
- Why is it necessary to reveal a bit in a script path spend and check that it matches the parity of the Y coordinate of Q?
- Why does Bitcoin Core use checkpoints??
- How does Bitcoin Core handle long reorgs?
- What is discard feerate?
- Policy to miniscript compiler
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/02/28/#selected-qa-from-bitcoin-stack-exchange
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 15:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!