Bitcoin Optech newsletter #259 is here:
- describes a proposal to remove details from the LN specification that are no longer relevant to modern nodes
- includes 'Waiting for confirmation #9: Policy Proposals' from our series about policies for transaction relay and mempool inclusion
- recaps the "Stop relaying non-mempool txs" PR Review Meeting
- Optech Newsletter #259 Recap on Twitter Spaces
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/07/12/
Rusty Russell posted to the Lightning-Dev mailing list a link to a PR where he proposes to remove some features that are no longer supported by modern LN implementations and to assume other features will always be supported...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/07/12/#ln-specification-clean-up-proposed
Waiting for confirmation #9: Policy Proposals
Last week’s post described anchor outputs and CPFP carve out, ensuring either channel party can fee-bump their shared commitment transactions without requiring collaboration. This approach still contains a few drawbacks. This post explores current efforts to address these and other limitations...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/07/12/#waiting-for-confirmation-9-policy-proposals
'Stop relaying non-mempool txs' is a PR by Marco Falke (MarcoFalke) that simplifies the Bitcoin Core client by removing an in-memory data structure, mapRelay, that may cause high memory consumption and is no longer needed...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/07/12/#bitcoin-core-pr-review-club
Bitcoin Optech will be hosting an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guests Gloria Zhao, Bastien Teinturier, and Martin Zumsande on Twitter Spaces Thursday at 15:00 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!