This week’s newsletter summarizes several questions and answers from the Bitcoin StackExchange and describes notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.
This week’s newsletter summarizes an update to a proposed standard for LN and includes our regular sections about notable changes to services, client software, and popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.
This week’s newsletter links to a description of methods for preventing hardware wallets from leaking private information through transaction signatures, provides an update on the BIP322 generic signmessage protocol, and summarizes a recent meeting of the Bitcoin Core PR Review Club. Also included are our regular sections about new releases and notable merges of popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.
This week’s newsletter describes a proposed update to BIP340 schnorr keys and signatures, seeks feedback on a proposal to improve startup feature negotiation between full nodes, examines a suggestion for a standardized way to prevent hardware wallets from using corrupt nonces to leak private keys, and links to an analysis of the properties necessary in a hash function for taproot to be secure. Also included are our regular sections for release announcements and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.
This week’s newsletter announces the 2020 Chaincode Residency program, describes two proposed routing improvements for LN, summarizes three interesting talks from the Stanford Blockchain Conference, links to popular questions and answers from the Bitcoin StackExchange, and lists several notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
This week’s newsletter announces the release of C-Lightning 0.8.1, requests help testing a Bitcoin Core maintenance release, summarizes a discussion about taproot versus implementing MAST and schnorr signatures separately, describes new ideas for using PoDLEs in LN channel construction, and highlights a new implication of work on privacy-enhanced payments to unannounced LN channels. Also included are our regular sections about notable changes to popular services, client software, and infrastructure projects.
Newsletters
- Bitcoin Optech: Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #90 (March 25, 2020)
- Lets Talk Bitcoin: Let's Talk Bitcoin! #431 Bailouts, Bitcoin, Disruption, Failures and Hope (March 22, 2020)
- Bitcoin Optech: Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #89 (March 18, 2020)
- Lets Talk Bitcoin: Let's Talk Bitcoin! #430 'Anything That Can Be Decentralized Will Be Decentralized' 6 Years Later (March 15, 2020)
Releases
| project | release | date |
|---|---|---|
| ledger-live-common | v12.7.1
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2020-03-24 |
| ledger-live-common | v12.6.3
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2020-03-24 |
| ledger-live-common | v12.6.2 (Tron): add address explorer url |
2020-03-24 |
| ledger-live-common | v12.6.1
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2020-03-15 |
| ledger-live-desktop | v2.1.0 🐞 Bug fixes
🎨 Other changes
|
2020-03-24 |
| ledgerjs | v5.12.2 hw-app-eth
hw-app-xrp
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2020-03-24 |
| ledgerjs | v5.11.4 hw-app-btc:
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2020-03-18 |
| ledgerjs | v5.11.1
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2020-03-18 |
| Samurai Wallet | 0.99.92 sha256 hash: 31b1ebe6bb87978d95dc017157be9d06420ffa0570013a930498c0b26b840180 Version number in-app is incorrect. If internal APK hash in settings displays as above then you are using 0.99.92. *** stealth launch, remote commands, SIM switch detection removed until further notice *** Whirlpool coinjoin inside improved utxo management UI complete coin control #Cahoots UI for 2-wallet coinjoins: Stowaway (payjoin spend), STONEWALLx2 Pair Whirlpool to Dojo Pair Samourai to Dojo (create wallet) Spend from post-mix Whirlpool PayNym UI updated Whirlpool GUI pairing Tor support for additional architectures New network screen UI New balance screen UI Tor integrated in-app, Tor 0.3.5.8 #Cahoots Easter Egg: 2-wallet coinjoins: Stowaway (payjoin spend), STONEWALLx2 Display transaction entropy pre-spend PayNym: 1-touch "refund" & "pay again" nLockTime staggered Ricochet label your utxos Stowaway on testnet: 2-wallet coinjoin testbed (PayJoin/P2EP) updated fee selection updated spend & receive UI sign messages from Address Calculator txTenna integration bitcoin only, no fiat fx PayNym may use Segwit addresses offline mode address calculation tools PayNym address calculation tool updated receive screen updated transaction sequence: compose-sign-broadcast display wallet amounts by address type full BIP84/bech32 support STONEWALL spend Ricochet 2.0 multi-hop spend sweep BIP84 (Bech32) & BIP49 (P2SH-P2WPKH) private keys displays YPUB of BIP49 account, ZPUB of BIP84 account OXT transaction view batch send improved fee selection & display support for PayNym.is BIP47 payment code directory optional setting: like-typed outputs (better privacy) vs all segwit outputs (lower fees) block utxo of non-broadcast transactions push any signed transaction (hex format) via 'broadcast transaction hex' in settings sign messages with Segwit (P2SH-P2WPKH) privkey like-typed inputs (p2pkh or segwit) will match type of outputs (wallet balance permitting) real time alert if wallet is being "dusted" (ie. incoming tx >546 & <1000) all utxo are now "blockable" and will not be spent if so marked optionally show redeem script of Segwit utxo full support for Segwit (P2SH-P2WPKH) Mule tools (offline transactions) balance & utxo via Samourai backend API fork detection read, validate, sweep OpenDime Segwit & UASF block explorers new metadata format improved wallet recovery UI/UX 0-fee tx possible using trusted node Custom fee lower limit now 1 sat/b Sign messages w/ any utxo privkey Exchange rate modifs (replace Bitcoin Average by Bitfinex) Updated launch icon Optionally show privkey of utxo Opt-in RBF (replace-by-fee) CPFP (child-pays-for-parent) for unconfirmed sent transactions CPFP (child-pays-for-parent) for unconfirmed received transactions display up-to-date miners' fees allow custom fee on spend PoW check when using trusted node spend via preferred trusted full node UTXO list dynamic fee for BIP47 notif tx |
2020-03-24 |
| bcoin | v2.0.0 | 2020-03-13 |
| pycoin | 0.90.20200322 | 2020-03-23 |