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  • Bitcoin OptechNews

    Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #425

    This week’s newsletter summarizes the responsible disclosure of two denial-of-service vulnerabilities affecting older versions of Eclair and describes a proposal for synchronizing wallet labels between devices through an untrusted store. Also included are our regular sections summarizing proposals and discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin OptechNews

    Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #424

    This week’s newsletter describes a proposal for upgrading the offchain protocols of the Lightning Network to post-quantum security. Also included are our regular sections with selected questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin OptechNews

    Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #423 Recap Podcast

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Davidson Souza, Eric Price, and PortlandHODL to discuss Newsletter #423.

  • Bitcoin OptechNews

    Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #423

    This week’s newsletter summarizes an analysis of mining pool difficulty controllers stranding slowed miners, describes a proposed improvement to Utreexo’s initial block download, and links to a draft BIP for specifying unspendable taproot internal keys. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

  • Bitcoin CoreOfficial

    Bitcoin Core 29.4 released

    Bitcoin Core version 29.4 is now available for download . See the release notes for more information about the bug fixes in this release. If you have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom ( IRC , web ) and we’ll do our best to help you. Bitcoin Core 29.4 released was originally pub…

  • Bitcoin CoreOfficial

    Bitcoin Core 30.3 released

    Bitcoin Core version 30.3 is now available for download . See the release notes for more information about the bug fixes in this release. If you have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom ( IRC , web ) and we’ll do our best to help you. Bitcoin Core 30.3 released was originally pub…

  • Bitcoin CoreOfficial

    Bitcoin Core 31.1 released

    Bitcoin Core version 31.1 is now available for download . See the release notes for more information about the bug fixes in this release. If you have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom ( IRC , web ) and we’ll do our best to help you. Bitcoin Core 31.1 released was originally pub…

  • Bitcoin CoreOfficial

    Private Broadcast May Reveal Sender IP Address in Bitcoin Core 31.0

    We have become aware of a privacy bug in the -privatebroadcast feature, newly introduced in Bitcoin Core 31.0, that may cause the originator’s IP address to be revealed to the receiving peer under certain network conditions. A fix is forthcoming and will be released with 31.1. Users of -privatebroad…

  • Bitcoin CoreOfficial

    CVE-2024-52911 - Script Interpreter Remote Crash

    After Bitcoin Core 0.14.0 and before Bitcoin Core 29.0, validating a specially-crafted block may cause the node to access previously freed memory. During validation, necessary data required for checking inputs for each transaction is pre-calculated and cached. For specially crafted invalid blocks, i…