Bitcoin Optech newsletter #294 is here:
- announces a project to create a BIP324 proxy for light clients
- summarizes discussion about a proposed BTC Lisp language
- summarizes changes to services/client software
- adds a Kindred replace by fee topic
- Optech #294 Recap
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/03/20/
Sebastian Falbesoner posted to Delving Bitcoin to announce a TCP proxy for translating between the version 1 (v1) Bitcoin P2P protocol and the v2 protocol defined in BIP324. This is especially intended to allow light client wallets written for v1 to take advantage of v2’s traffic encryption...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/03/20/#bip324-proxy-for-light-clients
Anthony Towns posted to Delving Bitcoin about his experiments over the past couple of years creating a variant of the Lisp language for Bitcoin, called BTC Lisp. See Newsletters #293 and #191 for previous discussions...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/03/20/#overview-of-btc-lisp
Changes to services and client software:
- BitGo adds RBF support
- Phoenix Wallet v2.2.0 released
- Bitkey hardware signing device released
- Envoy v1.6.0 released
- VLS v0.11.0 released
- Portal hardware signing device announced
- Braiins mining pool adds Lightning support
- Ledger Bitcoin App 2.2.0 released
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/03/20/#changes-to-services-and-client-software
Kindred replace by fee is the ability for a transaction to replace a related transaction in the mempool even if there’s no conflict between the two transactions...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/kindred-replace-by-fee/
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guests Sebastian Falbesoner, Anthony Towns, and Russell O’Connor on Twitter Spaces Thursday at 14:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!