👉 Bitcoin Optech #290

  • describes a proposal for providing DNS-based human-readable Bitcoin payment instructions
  • summarizes thoughts about mempool incentive compatibility
    • Pure replace by feerate doesn’t guarantee incentive compatibility:
    • Miners with different hashrates have different priorities
    • Finding incentive-compatible behaviors that can’t resist DoS attacks would be useful
  • links to a thread on the design of Cashu / ecash systems
  • looks at continuing discussion about 64-bit arithmetic
  • gives an overview of an improved reproducible ASMap creation process
  • Changes to services and client software
  • Core Lightning 24.02rc1
  • Notable code and documentation changes
  • Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #290 Recap Podcast