https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/04/03/

Antoine Poinsot posted to Delving Bitcoin about revisiting Matt Corallo’s consensus cleanup proposal from 2019...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/04/03/#revisiting-consensus-cleanup

Mark “Murch” Erhardt continued the thread about adding new BIP editors by proposing everyone express “their arguments for and against any candidates in this thread until Friday end-of-day (April 5th)...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/04/03/#choosing-new-bip-editors

Accidental confiscation can occur if a poorly designed soft fork permanently prevents a user from being able to get a transaction confirmed...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/accidental-confiscation/

Duplicate transactions are more than one transaction that are identical and have identical txids. Bitcoin’s consensus rules use txids to uniquely identify transactions, so duplicate transactions can cause unwanted behavior...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/duplicate-transactions/

Gap limits are the limits wallets set for how many addresses they’ll derive from an HD wallet without seeing any transactions related to those addresses...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/gap-limits/

Time warp is an exploit of Bitcoin’s difficulty adjustment algorithm that allows miners controlling a large amount of hashrate to prevent difficulty from increasing even as the rate of block production increases...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/time-warp/

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

https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1vOxwjOPWrdJB?s=20