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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #306 is here:

- announces upcoming disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting older versions of Bitcoin Core

- describes a BIP for a new testnet

- summarizes a proposal for covenants based on functional encryption

- examines an update to the 64-bit arithmetic proposal

- links to a script for validating proof-of-work on signet with the OP_CAT opcode

- looks at a proposed update to the BIP21 specification of bitcoin: URIs

- #306 Recap

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/06/07/

Several members of the Bitcoin Core project discussed on IRC a proposed policy for disclosing vulnerabilities that affected older versions of Bitcoin Core...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/06/07/#upcoming-disclosure-of-vulnerabilities-affecting-old-versions-of-bitcoin-core

Fabian Jahr posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list to announce a draft BIP for testnet4, a new version of testnet designed to eliminate some problems with the existing testnet3...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/06/07/#bip-and-experimental-implementation-of-testnet4

Jeremy Rubin posted to Delving Bitcoin his paper about theoretically using functional encryption to add a full range of covenant behavior to Bitcoin with no required consensus changes...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/06/07/#functional-encryption-covenants

Chris Stewart posted to Delving Bitcoin to announce an update to his earlier proposal to add the ability to work with 64-bit numbers in Bitcoin Script...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/06/07/#updates-to-proposed-soft-fork-for-64-bit-arithmetic

Anthony Towns posted to Delving Bitcoin about a script for signet that uses OP_CAT to allow anyone to spend coins sent to the script using proof of work (PoW). This can be used as a decentralized signet-bitcoin faucet...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/06/07/#op-cat-script-to-validate-proof-of-work

Matt Corallo posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list about updating the BIP21 specification for the bitcoin: URI...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/06/07/#proposed-update-to-bip21

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Twitter Spaces Tuesday at 14:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1OdJrjBLWXkJX

"It is strongly recommended that all users and administrators upgrade to Bitcoin Core 25.0 or above within the next two weeks"

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