Bitcoin Optech newsletter #345 is here:
- looks at an analysis of P2P traffic experienced by a typical full node
- summarizes research into LN pathfinding
- describes a new approach for creating probabilistic payments
- recaps the "Stricter internal handling of invalid blocks " PR Review Meeting
- Optech Newsletter #345 Recap on Riverside
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/03/14/
Developer Virtu posted to Delving Bitcoin an analysis of the network traffic generated and received by his node in four different modes: initial block download (IBD), non-listening (outbound connections only), non-archival (pruned) listening, and archival listening...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/03/14/#p2p-traffic-analysis
Sindura Saraswathi posted to Delving Bitcoin about research she conducted with Christian KĂĽmmerle about finding optimal paths between LN nodes for sending payments in a single part...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/03/14/#research-into-single-path-ln-pathfinding
Robin Linus replied to the Delving Bitcoin thread about probabilistic payments with a conceptually simple script that allows two parties to each commit to an arbitrary amount of entropy that can later be revealed and xored together, to produce a value that can be used to determine which one of them receives a payment...
'Stricter internal handling of invalid blocks' is a PR by mzumsande that improves the correctness of two non-consensus-critical and expensive-to-calculate validation fields by immediately updating them when a block is marked as invalid...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/03/14/#bitcoin-core-pr-review-club
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!
