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Russel O'Connor, researcher at Blockstream Research (@blksresearch) during Bitcoin ++ Consensus Edition in Toronto.
He talks to the Insider about SafeGDC, the new algorithm for modular inverse and how Bitcoin devs like Greg Maxwell, Pieter Wuille (@pwuille), and Peter Dettman implemented it in libsecp256k1 and how it was formally verified.
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JUST IN: launches BIP54 compatibility detection for blocks, which should help visualize miner support for the bug-fix softfork proposal spearheaded by Chaincode dev Antoine Poinsot (@darosior)
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In this week update by @TumaBitcoiner, we feature the current effort from the LDK team (@lightningdevkit) to add support for recurrent payments in BOLT12. We also discuss a new plugin for Core-lightning (@Core_LN) to rebalance channels in a node.
We also cover the most interesting news from the Bitcoin ecosystem. Notably, we talk about Iceberg, a new nested threshold MuSig2 signature scheme, that allows Lightning operators to thresholdize one participant inside a multi-signature protocol.
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Users are recommended to look into the BHWI project, maintained by the wallet maker @Wizardsardine
What does the path to consensus look like for BIP54 - the Great Consensus Cleanup? @peterktodd discusses a "miner-activated soft fork" approach.
Voices from BTC++ Consensus Edition - Azad (@ethicnology) from Bull Bitcoin (@BULLBITCOIN_) implemented Compact Block Filters into Bull via BDK (@bitcoindevkit) as his hackathon project at BTC++ Toronto
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JUST IN: Dustin Dettmer (@dusty_daemon) digs into the COLDCARD firmware commit history to uncover what actually happened in the code to introduce one of the worst bugs for self-custody in recent bitcoin history
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What are you excited to see at the MIT Bitcoin Expo? - Shinobi (@brian_trollz)
SPOTTED: Blockstream's Liquid (@Liquid_BTC) federation releases their product roadmap, which includes an investigation into porting the Bitcoin bridge to Robin Linus's BitVM protocol
