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@ Bitcoin Optech
2025-05-30 12:29:53
Bitcoin Optech newsletter #356 is here:
- summarizes a discussion about the possible effects of attributable failures on LN privacy
- summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange
- adds an attributable failures topic
- Optech Newsletter #356 Recap Podcast
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/30/
Carla Kirk-Cohen posted to Delving Bitcoin an analysis of the possible consequences for the privacy of LN spenders and receivers if the network adopts attributable failures, particularly telling the spender the amount of time it took to forward a payment at each hop...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/30/#do-attributable-failures-reduce-ln-privacy
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange:
- Which transactions get into blockreconstructionextratxn?
- Why would anyone use OP_RETURN over inscriptions, aside from fees?
- Why is my Bitcoin node not receiving incoming connections?
- How do I configure my node to filter out transactions larger than 400 bytes?
- What does “not publicly routable” node in Bitcoin Core P2P mean?
- Why would a node would ever relay a transaction?
- Is selfish mining still an option with compact blocks and FIBRE?
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/30/#selected-qa-from-bitcoin-stack-exchange
Attributable failures are LN payment forwarding failures or delays that can be attributed to a pair of nodes, allowing spenders to avoid using slow or failure-prone nodes for future payments...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/attributable-failures/
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 16:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!
https://riverside.fm/studio/bitcoin-optech