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@ Bitcoin Optech
2025-05-16 11:01:26
Bitcoin Optech newsletter #354 is here:
- describes a fixed vulnerability affecting old versions of Bitcoin Core
- Changing consensus covering: 64-bit arithmetic in Script, Proposed opcodes for enabling recursive covenants through quines, benefits to BitVM from OP_CTV and OP_CSFS
- Optech Newsletter #354 Recap Podcast
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/16/
Antoine Poinsot posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list to announce a vulnerability affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 29.0...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/16/#vulnerability-disclosure-affecting-old-versions-of-bitcoin-core
Chris Stewart posted a draft BIP to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list that proposes upgrading Bitcoin’s existing opcodes to operate on 64-bit numeric values...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/16/#proposed-bip-for-64-bit-arithmetic-in-script
Bram Cohen posted to Delving Bitcoin to suggest a set of simple opcodes that would enable the creation of recursive covenants through self-reproducing scripts (quines)...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/16/#proposed-opcodes-for-enabling-recursive-covenants-through-quines
Robin Linus posted to Delving Bitcoin about several of the improvements to BitVM that would become possible if the proposed OP_CTV and OP_CSFS opcodes were added to Bitcoin in a soft fork...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/05/16/#description-of-benefits-to-bitvm-from-op-ctv-and-op-csfs
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