Technology Recap: Bitcoin: Several wallet developers including ColdCard and Sparrow Wallet have been in talks with developer Ali Sherief regarding a BIP that encompasses a single message signing algorithm used for P2WPKH and other output types. Core developers have been discussing use cases and…
Technology Recap: Bitcoin: Core Developer Alfred Hodler posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a proposal to BIP-47. BIP-47 allows a user to publish a payment code that anyone can use in combination with their own keys to create an unlimited number of…
Technology Recap: Bitcoin: Lightning Network Daemon, lnd, announces lnd v0.15-beta! This new release includes full support for Taproot (creating addresses, send/receive, PSBT funding and signing), experimental MuSig2 API, BIP-55 support for neutrino and more! The Lightning Development Kit shares the full background of LDK…
Technology Recap: Bitcoin: Rusty Russell proposed a restricted version of an OP_TX opcode that would allow Tapscript to push to the stack selected parts of the transaction executing it. This would allow for CLTV’s (CheckLockTimeVerify) with fewer bytes than a pure transaction…
Cryptocurrency Technology Recap Bitcoin: In the latest Bitcoin build, deployers now have a full example bitcoin.conf shipped with each release! If needed, there is also now a script to generate one yourself. As of block 735000, we are halfway through Bitcoin’s 4th mining…
Cryptocurrency Technology Recap: Bitcoin: Bitcoin Core v23.0 has been released! This release includes wallet updates with Taproot support, descriptor wallets set as default, ability to indefinitely freeze a UTXO, updates to P2P communications and more! C-Lightning has been rebranded to Core Lightning (CLN). Blockstream…