This week’s newsletter describes a distributed key generation protocol for the FROST scriptless threshold signature scheme and links to a comprehensive introduction to cluster linearization. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to clients, services, and popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects.

News

  • Distributed key generation protocol for FROST
  • Introduction to cluster linearization

Changes to services and client software

  • ZEUS adds BOLT12 offers and BIP353 support
  • Phoenix adds BOLT12 offers and BIP353 support
  • Stack Wallet adds RBF and CPFP support
  • BlueWallet adds silent payment send support
  • BOLT12 Playground announced
  • Moosig testing repository announced
  • Real-time Stratum visualization tool released
  • BMM 100 Mini Miner announced
  • Coldcard publishes URL-based transaction broadcast specification

Notable code and documentation changes

  • Bitcoin Core
  • Core Lightning
  • Eclair
  • Rust Bitcoin
  • BDK
  • BIPs
  • BOLTs
  • BLIPs
In today's 'Time travel post by @Undisciplined, I've come to know that @ssaurel used to deliver these Optech posts to SN. When did you take over from him?
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Currently @Rsync25 is the one that usually shares, but today I was faster than it 🤠
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Faster than 'it'? You mean a 'bot'?
I see @Rsync25 posting more than 100 posts so very often, very unmanly! Isn't it?
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my bad ... faster than him 🤠
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Very informative. Thanks for sharing
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stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.