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December 2019

• Multipath payments
  • C-Lightning #3259 adds payment secrets to prevent multipath probing 🔗
  • LND #3788 adds support for “payment addresses” (payment secrets) 🔗
  • Multiple LN implementations add multipath payment support 🔗
  • Basic multipath payment support added to LN specification 🔗
  • 2019 year-in-review: multipath payments 🔗
• Bech32
  • LND #3767 rejects malformed BOLT11 invoices with a valid bech32 checksum 🔗
  • Proposed plan to deal with bech32 malleability in variable-length addresses 🔗
  • Analysis of bech32 error detection capability 🔗
  • 2019 year-in-review: bech32 mutability 🔗
• Covenants
  • OP_CHECKOUTPUTSHASHVERIFY renamed OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY and updated 🔗
  • Suggested changes to OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY proposal 🔗
  • 2019 year-in-review: OP_CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY 🔗
• Watchtowers
  • Watchtower BOLT specification proposed 🔗
  • Discussion about watchtowers for eltoo payment channels 🔗
  • 2019 year-in-review: watchtowers 🔗
• Eclipse attacks
  • Discussion of eclipse attacks on LN nodes 🔗
  • 2019 year-in-review: erlay and other P2P improvements 🔗
• Tapscript
  • Discussion about position commitments using signature-checking opcodes 🔗
  • 2019 year-in-review: taproot and tapscript 🔗
• Anchor outputs
  • 2019 year-in-review: anchor outputs 🔗
• AssumeUTXO
  • 2019 year-in-review: AssumeUTXO 🔗
• BIP70 payment protocol
  • 2019 year-in-review: Bitcoin Core BIP70 deprecation and disablement 🔗
• Coinjoin
  • 2019 year-in-review: SNICKER 🔗
• Consensus cleanup soft fork
  • 2019 year-in-review: consensus cleanup soft fork proposal 🔗
• Erlay
  • 2019 year-in-review: erlay 🔗
• Hardware wallet interface (HWI)
  • 2019 year-in-review: HWI 🔗
• Miniscript
  • 2019 year-in-review: miniscript 🔗
• MuSig
  • Composable MuSig—concerns about safely using signer sub-groups 🔗
• OP_CODESEPARATOR
  • Discussion of OP_CODESEPARATOR design for proposed tapscript soft fork 🔗
• Reproducible builds
  • 2019 year-in-review: reproducible builds 🔗
• SIGHASH_NOINPUT
  • 2019 year-in-review: SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT 🔗
• Signet
  • 2019 year-in-review: signet 🔗
• Taproot
  • 2019 year-in-review: taproot 🔗
• Trampoline payments
  • 2019 year-in-review: trampoline payments 🔗

November 2019

• Multipath payments
  • LND #3499 extends several RPCs to support tracking multipath payments 🔗
  • Eclair #1153 adds experimental support for multipath payments 🔗
  • LND #3442 preparatory PR adding features necessary for multipath payments 🔗
• Bech32
  • How does the bech32 length-extension mutation weakness work? 🔗
  • Impact of bech32 length-change mutability on v1 segwit script length 🔗
• Coin selection
  • Bitcoin Core PR#17290 coin selection for customized transactions 🔗
  • Bitcoin Core 0.19 adds wallet flag to avoid address reuse privacy loss 🔗
• Compact block filters
  • Bitcoin Core 0.19 released with RPC support for BIP158 block filters 🔗
  • Maximum number of block filters per request increased from 100 to 1,000 🔗
• CPFP carve out
  • Continued discussion of LN anchor outputs using CPFP carve-out 🔗
  • Bitcoin Core 0.19 released with CPFP carve-out 🔗
• Taproot
  • Impact of bech32 length-change mutablity on v1 segwit script length 🔗
  • Blog post about x-only schnorr pubkeys 🔗
• Anchor outputs
  • Continued discussion of LN anchor outputs 🔗
• BIP70 payment protocol
  • Bitcoin Core 0.19 released with BIP70 support disabled by default 🔗
• Erlay
  • Erlay-compatible transaction reconciliation protocol published as BIP330 🔗
• MuSig
  • MuSig and attacks based on Wagner’s algorithm 🔗
• Partially signed bitcoin transactions (PSBTs)
  • Range of identifiers allocated to proprietary PSBT extensions 🔗
• Schnorr signatures
  • Blog post about x-only pubkeys for use in schnorr signature schemes 🔗
• Signet
  • Signet protocol published as BIP325 🔗
• Trampoline payments
  • Eclair #1209 adds experimental support for trampoline onion format 🔗
• Transaction bloom filtering
  • Bitcoin Core 0.19 released with bloom filters disabled 🔗

October 2019

• Schnorr signatures
  • Update on changes to schnorr, taproot, and tapscript 🔗
  • Talk summary: the quest for practical threshold Schnorr signatures 🔗
  • Announcement of structured taproot review (including schnorr) 🔗
  • Bitcoin Optech schnorr/taproot workshop 🔗
• Taproot
  • Update on changes to schnorr, taproot, and tapscript 🔗
  • Announcement of structured taproot review 🔗
  • Bitcoin Optech schnorr/taproot workshop 🔗
• Tapscript
  • Update on changes to schnorr, taproot, and tapscript 🔗
  • Announcement of structured taproot review (including tapscript) 🔗
  • Bitcoin Optech schnorr/taproot workshop 🔗
• Anchor outputs
  • LN simplified commitments discussion 🔗
• BIP70 payment protocol
  • Bitcoin Core PR#17165 removes support for BIP70 payment protocol 🔗
• CPFP carve out
  • LN simplified commitments using CPFP carve-out 🔗
• CVE-2018-17144
  • Talk summary: Near misses: what could have gone wrong 🔗
• Erlay
  • Draft BIP for enabling Erlay compatibility 🔗
• MuSig
  • Schnorr signatures and musig 🔗
• Output script descriptors
  • Descriptors extended with sortedmulti 🔗
• SIGHASH_NOINPUT
  • Continued discussion of noinput/anyprevout 🔗

September 2019

• BIP70 payment protocol
  • Bitcoin Core PR#15584 disables support for BIP70 by default 🔗
• Coinjoin
  • Simple Non-Interactive Coinjoin with Keys for Encryption Reused (SNICKER) 🔗
• CPFP carve out
  • Bitcoin Core #16421 merged allowing carve outs to be RBF replaced 🔗
• Child-pays-for-parent (CPFP)
  • Refactor preparing for ancestor relay 🔗
• Eltoo
  • Eltoo demo implementation 🔗
• Hold invoices
  • LND #3390 simplifies hold invoice logic by separate HTLC tracking 🔗
• Multipath payments
  • LND #3390 separates tracking of HTLCs from invoices as necessary for AMP 🔗
• Signet
  • Eltoo demo implementation using custom signet 🔗
• Taproot
  • Suggested removal of P2SH address wrapper from taproot proposal 🔗
• Tapscript
  • Tapscript resource limits 🔗
• Watchtowers
  • Watchtower storage costs 🔗

August 2019

• Transaction bloom filtering
  • Bitcoin Core PR#16248 adds bloom filter whitelist option 🔗
  • BRD field report: using native segwit addresses with bloom filters 🔗
• Covenants
  • Bitcoin vaults without covenants 🔗
• Miniscript
  • Miniscript request for comments 🔗
• Partially signed bitcoin transactions (PSBTs)
  • Modifying BIP174 for extensibility 🔗
• Replace-by-fee (RBF)
  • Compatibility matrix—Replace by Fee 🔗
• Schnorr signatures
  • Proposed change to schnorr pubkeys 🔗
• Signet
  • C-Lightning 0.7.2.1 released with support for signet 🔗
• Trampoline payments
  • BOLT PR and discussion about trampoline payments 🔗

July 2019

• Generic signmessage
  • Bitcoin Core PR opened for BIP322 signmessage support 🔗
  • Searching for a bech32 signmessage format 🔗
• Just-in-time (JIT) routing
  • Free rebalancing for JIT routing 🔗
  • Additional JIT routing discussion 🔗
• Signet
  • Progress on signet 🔗
  • C-Lightning adds support for signet 🔗
• Transaction bloom filtering
  • Bitcoin Core PR#16152 disables bloom filter support by default 🔗
  • Mailing list discussion about disabling bloom filters in Bitcoin Core 🔗
• Coinjoin
  • Fidelity bonds for imporoved sybil resistance in distributed coinjoin 🔗
• Compact block filters
  • BIP157 bandwidth higher than BIP37 bloom filters 🔗
• CPFP carve out
  • Bitcoin Core #15681 merged with CPFP carve out 🔗
• MuSig
  • LN gossip update proposal to use MuSig 🔗
• Partially signed bitcoin transactions (PSBTs)
  • Update to the utxoupdatepsbt RPC in Bitcoin Core 🔗
• Reproducible builds
  • Merged PR for reproducible build of Bitcoin Core using GNU Guix 🔗
• Schnorr signatures
  • Executive briefing: the next soft fork 🔗
• Sidechains
  • Notable changes: BIP301 🔗
• Tapscript
  • BIP322 signmessage forward compatibility 🔗
• Watchtowers
  • LND 0.7.0-beta release with initial watchtower support 🔗

June 2019

• Replace-by-fee (RBF)
  • Proposal to override some BIP125 RBF conditions 🔗
  • LND adds support for RBF fee bumping 🔗
  • Bitcoin Core removes mempoolreplacement configuration option 🔗
• MuSig
  • Optech executive briefing: the next soft fork 🔗
  • Breaking Bitcoin presentation: secure protocols on bip-taproot 🔗
• AssumeUTXO
  • CoreDev.tech demo and discussion of assumeutxo 🔗
• Coin selection
  • Bitcoin Core PR#13756 adds flag to avoid address reuse privacy loss 🔗
• Consensus cleanup soft fork
  • CoreDev.tech discussion: cleanup soft fork 🔗
• Countersign
  • CoreDev.tech meetings: v2 P2P transport and countersign 🔗
• Covenants
  • CoreDev.tech discussion: potential script changes 🔗
• CPFP carve out
  • Proposal to override some BIP125 conditions, alternative to carve out 🔗
• Child-pays-for-parent (CPFP)
  • LND #3140 adds support for RBF and CPFP fee bumping sweep transactions 🔗
• Dandelion
  • Erlay comaptible with BIP156 🔗
• Eclipse attacks
  • Differentiating peers based on ASN instead of address prefix 🔗
• Erlay
  • Erlay proposed 🔗
• Hardware wallet interface (HWI)
  • CoreDev.tech discussions: HWI integration into Bitcoin Core 🔗
• Reproducible builds
  • Breaking Bitcoin summaries: Bitcoin build system security 🔗
• Signet
  • CoreDev.tech discussion: signet 🔗
• Spontaneous payments
  • Using ECDH for uncoordinated LN payments 🔗
• Taproot
  • Executive briefing: the next soft fork 🔗
• Tapscript
  • Executive briefing: Taproot and Tapscript 🔗
• Transaction pinning
  • Proposal to override some BIP125 RBF conditions to avoid pinning 🔗
• Utreexo
  • Utreexo Q&A session at CoreDev.Tech 🔗
• Version 2 P2P transport
  • CoreDev.tech discussion of v2 P2P transport proposal 🔗
• Watchtowers
  • LND PR #3133 adding support for altruist watchtowers 🔗

May 2019

• Taproot
  • Reducing taproot commitment size 🔗
  • Overview of Taproot and Tapscript 🔗
  • Extended summary of bip-taproot and bip-tapscript 🔗
• SIGHASH_NOINPUT
  • New proposed SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT mode 🔗
  • Criticism of SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT and a generic alternative 🔗
• Tapscript
  • Extended summary of bip-taproot and bip-tapscript 🔗
  • Overview of Taproot and Tapscript 🔗
• Covenants
  • New proposed opcode: OP_CHECKOUTPUTSHASHVERIFY 🔗
• Eltoo
  • SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT proposal compatible with Eltoo 🔗
• Hardware wallet interface (HWI)
  • Bitcoin Core 0.18 with basic hardware signer support 🔗
• MAST
  • Overview of Taproot and it’s MAST-based encumbrances 🔗
• Miniscript
  • Final stack empty, insights from miniscript development 🔗
• Partially signed bitcoin transactions (PSBTs)
  • PSBT enhancements included in Bitcoin Core 0.18 🔗
• Reproducible builds
  • New reproducibly-build architecture and Snap packages for Bitcoin Core 🔗

April 2019

• AssumeUTXO
  • Assume valid discussion 🔗
• Compact block filters
  • Basic BIP158 support merged into Bitcoin Core 🔗
• Hold invoices
  • C-Lightning #2540 adds hook allowing plugins to implement hold invoices 🔗
• Sidechains
  • Elements Project bech32-like addresses 🔗
• Trampoline payments
  • Trampoline payments for LN 🔗

March 2019

• Consensus cleanup soft fork
  • Cleanup soft fork proposal 🔗
  • Consensus cleanup background 🔗
  • Consensus cleanup discussion: codeseparator & sighash types 🔗
• OP_CODESEPARATOR
  • Proposed consensus cleanup soft fork: prevent use of OP_CODESEPARATOR 🔗
  • Consensus cleanup background: legacy transaction verification 🔗
  • Discussion about cleanup soft fork: concerns about OP_CODESEPARATOR 🔗
• Bech32
  • Bech32 sending support (24-part series) 🔗
• Block explorers
  • Esplora updated 🔗
• Hold invoices
  • LND #2022 merged adding support for hold invoices 🔗
• MuSig
  • Extensions to PSBTs to help make them compatible with advanced protocols 🔗
• Partially signed bitcoin transactions (PSBTs)
  • Discussion of PSBT extension fields 🔗
• SIGHASH_NOINPUT
  • Discussion about increasing SIGHASH_NOINPUT_UNSAFE safety 🔗
• Signet
  • Feedback requested on signet 🔗
• Version 2 P2P transport
  • Announcement of v2 P2P transport proposal 🔗
• Watchtowers
  • LND PR #2618 implementing private watchtower support 🔗

February 2019

• BIP70 payment protocol
  • Bitcoin Core PR#15063 allows falling back to BIP21 parsing of BIP72 URIs 🔗
• Channel factories
  • Discussion of output tagging and its effect on eltoo and channel factories 🔗
• Dandelion
  • PRs that need more review or development 🔗
• Hardware wallet interface (HWI)
  • Bitcoin Core preliminary hardware wallet support 🔗
• MAST
  • It should be possible to upgrade miniscript for things like MAST 🔗
• Miniscript
  • Miniscript presentation 🔗
• MuSig
  • Libsecp256k1-zkp supports MuSig key and signature aggregation 🔗
• Output script descriptors
  • Descriptor checksum support added 🔗
• Partially signed bitcoin transactions (PSBTs)
  • Three new Bitcoin Core RPCs for managing PSBTs 🔗
• Replace-by-fee (RBF)
  • RBF in the wild (survey of RBF usage) 🔗
• Reproducible builds
  • Notable Bitcoin Core PRs: reproducible builds using GNU Guix 🔗
• SIGHASH_NOINPUT
  • Tagging outputs to increase safety of SIGHASH_NOINPUT_UNSAFE 🔗
• Utreexo
  • Exploring accumulators 🔗

January 2019

• Watchtowers
  • LND PR #2448 adding a standalone watchtower 🔗
  • LND PR #2439 adding a default policy for the watchtower 🔗
• Dandelion
  • What’s the BIP156 hold-up in Bitcoin Core? 🔗
• Eltoo
  • Optimization for Eltoo-based payment channels 🔗
• MAST
  • Should OP_CODESEPARATOR be disabled in MAST scripts? 🔗
• OP_CODESEPARATOR
  • Should OP_CODESEPARATOR be included in future Script language upgrades? 🔗
• Payjoin
  • Mailing list discussion about BIP79 Bustapay 🔗
• SIGHASH_NOINPUT
  • SIGHASH_NOINPUT_UNSAFE edge cases 🔗
• Spontaneous payments
  • LND PR for spontaneous LN payments 🔗

December 2018

• Minisketch
  • 2018 year-in-review: research into reducing transaction relay data 🔗
  • Minisketch library released with implications for Bitcoin and LN 🔗
• Taproot
  • Taproot (major developments of 2018, January) 🔗
  • What a taproot soft fork might look like 🔗
• Block explorers
  • Modern open source block explorer 🔗
• Channel factories
  • 2018 year-in-review: eltoo lays groundwork for channel factories 🔗
• Countersign
  • 2018 year-in-review: untrackable authentication 🔗
• CPFP carve out
  • CPFP carve out proposal 🔗
• Child-pays-for-parent (CPFP)
  • CPFP carve-out proposed 🔗
• CVE-2018-17144
  • 2018 year-in-review: CVE-2018-17144 🔗
• Dandelion
  • 2018 year-in-review notable developments: BIP156 Dandelion 🔗
• Eltoo
  • 2018 year-in-review: Eltoo 🔗
• Generic signmessage
  • 2018 year-in-review: initial discussion that became BIP322 🔗
• MAST
  • Taproot: an optimization for MAST 🔗
• MuSig
  • 2018 year-in-review: publication of MuSig protocol 🔗
• Payjoin
  • 2018 year-in-review: Pay-to-EndPoint (P2EP) 🔗
• Replace-by-fee (RBF)
  • 2018 year-in-review: transaction statistics 🔗
• SIGHASH_NOINPUT
  • 2018 year-in-review: SIGHASH_NOINPUT 🔗
• Splicing
  • 2018 year-in-review: splicing 🔗
• Transaction pinning
  • Eltoo may not be entirely reliable because of transaction pinning 🔗

November 2018

• Anchor outputs
  • Simplified fee bumping for LN 🔗
• Bech32
  • Bech32 security update for C implementations 🔗
• Child-pays-for-parent (CPFP)
  • Simplified fee bumping for LN 🔗
• Multipath payments
  • LN protocol 1.1 goals: multipath payments 🔗
• SIGHASH_NOINPUT
  • Proposal included additional data in sighashes 🔗
• Splicing
  • LN 1.1 protocol goals 🔗
• Transaction pinning
  • What is transaction pinning? 🔗
• Watchtowers
  • LND PR #2124 adding support for detecting and using onchain spends 🔗

October 2018

• BIP70 payment protocol
  • Bitcoin Core PR#14451 allows building Bitcoin-Qt without BIP70 support 🔗
• Covenants
  • Scaling Bitcoin Tokyo 2018, Script Roundtable: OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK 🔗
• CVE-2018-17144
  • CVE-2018-17144 exploited on testnet 🔗
• Output script descriptors
  • Key origin support 🔗
• SIGHASH_NOINPUT
  • Discussion of the evolution of script: SIGHASH_NOINPUT_UNSAFE 🔗
• Splicing
  • Proposals for LN splicing 🔗
• Utreexo
  • CoreDev.Tech summaries: Utreexo 🔗
• Watchtowers
  • LND PRs #1535 and #1512 adding server-side communication for watchtowers 🔗

September 2018

• CVE-2018-17144
  • Upgrade to Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 to fix DoS vulnerability 🔗
  • Upgrade to Bitcoin Core 0.16.3 to fix CVE-2018-17144 🔗
  • Information about CVE-2018-17144 🔗
• Coinjoin
  • Sighash updates that can help hardware wallets participate in coinjoins 🔗
  • Question about Wasabi coinjoin mixing and exchange blacklisting 🔗
• Generic signmessage
  • BIP322 proposed 🔗
• Payjoin
  • Bustapay discussion (simplified alternative to P2EP) 🔗
• Version 2 P2P transport
  • Criticism and defense of BIP151 choices 🔗

August 2018

• Version 2 P2P transport
  • Continuing work on P2P protocol encryption 🔗
  • PR opened for initial BIP151 support 🔗
• BIP70 payment protocol
  • Pay-to-EndPoint (P2EP) has elements similar to BIP70 🔗
• Coinjoin
  • BLS signatures library possibly useful for non-interactive coinjoins 🔗
• Compact block filters
  • Functions for generating BIP158 filters added to Bitcoin Core 🔗
• Dandelion
  • Dandelion DoS-resistant stem routing being researched 🔗
• Minisketch
  • Researching bandwidth-efficient set reconciliation protocol 🔗
• MuSig
  • BLS signatures based on the MuSig construction 🔗
• Payjoin
  • Pay-to-EndPoint (P2EP) proposed 🔗
• Watchtowers
  • LND PR #1543 adding watchtower version 0 encoding and encryption 🔗

July 2018

• Partially signed bitcoin transactions (PSBTs)
  • PSBT discussion 🔗
  • Features included in Bitcoin Core 0.17 🔗
  • New Bitcoin Core RPCs for initial PSBT support 🔗
• Coin selection
  • Coin selection groups for privacy and consolidation 🔗
  • Bitcoin Core unlikely to add coin selection RPC 🔗
• Schnorr signatures
  • Proposed schnorr BIP 🔗
  • Continued bip-schnorr discussion 🔗
• Coinjoin
  • CoinjoinXT presentation 🔗
• Dandelion
  • Discussion of Dandelion route selection 🔗
• Output script descriptors
  • First use of descriptors in Bitcoin Core 🔗
• SIGHASH_NOINPUT
  • Renaming of SIGHASH_NOINPUT to SIGHASH_NOINPUT_UNSAFE 🔗

June 2018

• Coin selection
  • Coin selection simulations 🔗
• Compact block filters
  • Discussion of what data should be included in BIP158 filters 🔗
• OP_CODESEPARATOR
  • Bitcoin Core 0.16.1 to cease relaying transactions using OP_CODESEPARATOR 🔗

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