Bitcoin Optech newsletter #287 is here:
- describes a proposal to allow replacement of v3 transactions using RBF rules to ease the transition to cluster mempool
- summarizes an argument against OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY based on it commonly requiring exogenous fees
- summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange
- adds a Fee sourcing topic
- adds a Simple taproot channels topic
- Optech Newsletter #287 Recap on Twitter Spaces
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/31/
Gloria Zhao posted to Delving Bitcoin about allowing a transaction to replace a related transaction in the mempool even if there’s no conflict between the two transactions...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/31/#kindred-replace-by-fee
Peter Todd posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list an adaptation of his argument against exogenous fees (see Newsletter #284) applied to the OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY proposal...
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange:
- How does block synchronization work in Bitcoin Core today?
- How does headers-first prevent disk-fill attack?
- Is BIP324 v2transport redundant on Tor and I2P connections?
- What’s a rule of thumb for setting the maximum number of connections?
- Why isn’t the upper bound (+2h) on the block timestamp set as a consensus rule?
- Sigop count and its influence on transaction selection?
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/01/31/#selected-qa-from-bitcoin-stack-exchange
Fee sourcing refers to the decisions made by designers of committed transactions (such as presigned transactions) about what sources of funds they’ll use for paying transaction fees...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/fee-sourcing/
Simple taproot channels are LND funding and commitment transactions that use taproot (P2TR) with support for MuSig2 scriptless multisignature signing when both parties are cooperating...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/simple-taproot-channels/
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guests Gloria Zhao and Brandon Black on Twitter Spaces Thursday at 15:00 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!