👉 Bitcoin Optech #147

  • Miners encouraged to start signaling for taproot
    • Trustlessly monitor signaling progress on Bitcoin Core 0.21.1 by using getblockchaininfo RPC call:
    $ bitcoin-cli getblockchaininfo \
| jq '.softforks.taproot.bip9.statistics | .elapsed,.count,.possible'
  • Closing lost channels with only a BIP32 seed
  • Releases and release candidates
  • Notable code and documentation changes