This week’s newsletter describes a new proposed Bitcoin P2P protocol message, a BIP for the bech32 modified address format, and an idea for preventing UTXO probing in proposed dual-funded LN channels. Also included are our regular sections with the summary of a Bitcoin Core PR Review Club meeting, a list of releases and release candidates, and descriptions of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.
News
Proposed disabletx message
Bech32m Pieter Wuille
LN dual funding anti UTXO probing
Releases and release candidates
Bitcoin Core 0.21.0rc5
LND 0.12.0-beta.rc5
Notable code and documentation changes
Notable changes this week in Bitcoin Core, C-Lightning, Eclair, LND, Rust-Lightning, libsecp256k1, Hardware Wallet Interface (HWI), Rust Bitcoin, Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs), and Lightning BOLTs.
Bitcoin Core #18077 introduces support for a common automatic port forwarding protocol, NAT-PMP (Network Address Translation Port Mapping Protocol).
Bitcoin Core #19055 adds the MuHash algorithm so that future PRs can use it for planned features.
As always, Bitcoin Optech Newsletter offers us an interesting reading of the proposals and advances of the Bitcoin environment, more information on its page with the complete content.
