Bitcoin Optech newsletter #299 is here:
- newsletter describes a proposal to relay weak blocks to improve compact block performance in a network with multiple divergent mempool policies
- announces the addition of five BIP editors
- summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange
- Optech Newsletter #299 Recap on Twitter Spaces
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/04/24/
Greg Sanders posted to Delving Bitcoin about using weak blocks to improve compact block relay, particularly in the presence of divergent policies for transaction relay and mining. A weak block is a block with insufficient proof-of-work (PoW) to become the next block on the blockchain but which otherwise has a valid structure and set of valid transactions...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/04/24/#weak-blocks-proof-of-concept-implementation
After public discussion, the following contributors have been made BIP editors: Bryan “Kanzure” Bishop, Jon Atack, Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Olaoluwa “Roasbeef” Osuntokun, and Ruben Somsen.
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/04/24/#bip-editors-update
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange:
- Where exactly is the “off-by-one” difficulty bug?
- How is P2TR different than P2PKH using opcodes from a developer perspective?
- Are replacement transactions larger in size than their predecessors and than non-RBF transactions?
- Are Bitcoin signatures still vulnerable to nonce reuse?
- How do miners manually add transactions to a block template?
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/04/24/#selected-qa-from-bitcoin-stack-exchange
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guest Gregory Sanders on Twitter Spaces Thursday at 14:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!