Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #369 is here:
- shares an update on differential fuzzing of Bitcoin and LN implementations
- links to a new paper about garbled locks for accountable computing contracts
- summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange
- Optech Newsletter #369 Podcast
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/08/29/
Bruno Garcia posted to Delving Bitcoin to describe recent progress and accomplishments of bitcoinfuzz, a library and related data for fuzz testing Bitcoin-based software and libraries...
Liam Eagen posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list about a paper he’s written about a new mechanism for creating accountable computing contracts but based on garbled circuits...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/08/29/#garbled-locks-for-accountable-computing-contracts
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange:
- Is it possible to recover a private key from an aggregate public key under strong assumptions?
- Are all taproot addresses vulnerable to quantum computing?
- Why cant we set the chainstate obfuscation key?
- Is it possible to revoke a spending branch after a block height?
- Configure Bitcoin Core to use onion nodes in addition to IPv4 and IPv6 nodes?
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/08/29/#selected-qa-from-bitcoin-stack-exchange
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 16:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!