Bitcoin Optech newsletter #383 is here:
- describes a fixed vulnerability affecting the NBitcoin library
- summarizes the LNHANCE soft fork proposal
- relays a call to action to benchmark Bitcoin script execution under GSR's varops budget
- highlights discussion of optimizations to SLH-DSA (SPHINCS) post-quantum signatures
- Optech Newsletter #383 Podcast https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/05/
Bruno Garcia posted to Delving Bitcoin about a theoretical consensus failure in NBitcoin that could occur when using OP_NIP...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/05/#consensus-bug-in-nbitcoin-library
Moonsettler proposes a soft fork for LNHANCE now that all four of its constituent opcodes have updated BIPs and reference implementations...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/05/#lnhance-soft-fork
Julian posted a call to action to benchmark Bitcoin script execution under the varops budget...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/05/#benchmarking-the-varops-budget
Continuing the discussions around hardening Bitcoin against quantum computing, conduition presented his work on optimizing the SPHINCS signing algorithm...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/05/#slh-dsa-sphincs-post-quantum-signature-optimizations
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 17:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://riverside.fm/studio/bitcoin-optech