Bitcoin Optech newsletter #297 is here:
- announces a new domain-specific language for experimenting with contract protocols
- summarizes a discussion about modifying BIP editor responsibilities
- describes proposals to reset and modify testnet
- recaps the "Implement 64 bit arithmetic op codes in the Script interpreter" PR Review Meeting
- Optech Newsletter #297 Recap on Twitter Spaces
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/04/10/
Kulpreet Singh posted to Delving Bitcoin about a domain-specific language (DSL) he’s working on for Bitcoin. The language makes it easy to specify the operations that should be performed as part of a contract protocol...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/04/10/#dsl-for-experimenting-with-contracts
Tim Ruffing posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list about updating BIP2, which specifies the current process for adding new BIPs and updating existing BIPs...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/04/10/#updating-bip2
Jameson Lopp posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list about problems with the current public Bitcoin testnet (testnet3) and suggested restarting it, potentially with a different set of special-case consensus rules...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/04/10/#discussion-about-resetting-and-modifying-testnet
'Implement 64 bit arithmetic op codes in the Script interpreter' is a PR by Chris Stewart (GitHub Christewart) that introduces new opcodes allowing users to perform arithmetic operations on larger (64-bit) operands in Bitcoin Script than is currently allowed (32-bit)...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/04/10/#bitcoin-core-pr-review-club
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guests Kulpreet Singh, Jameson Lopp, and Joost Jager on Twitter Spaces Thursday at 16:00 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!