December 2023 Topics - Githubissues

Credit: someguy
“a novel solution that leverages the power of Bitcoin to establish enduring incentive systems for continuous data distribution. This tooling combines time-locked Bitcoin bonds and timestamped torrent magnet links to motivate users to actively participate in the seeding of large files. Durabit not only addresses the initial data propagation challenge but also helps offset the long-term operational costs of seeding files. By marrying the immutability of Bitcoin's blockchain with the efficiency of BitTorrent magnet links, Durabit ensures data availability and integrity while building a self-sustaining incentive system for content distribution.”

Credit: Ethan Heilman
“This BIP defines OP_CAT a new tapscript opcode which allows the concatenation of two values on the stack. This opcode would be activated via a soft fork by redefining the opcode OP_SUCCESS80.”

Credit: Voltage
“Doppler is a tool for building out a local regtest environment. It is explicitly tailored for testing Lightning apps and enables users to experiment with and test against various Lightning implementations.”

"BitcoinDev.org is a community funded website created by Vortex with the sole purpose of on-boarding new developers into the bitcoin ecosystem."

Credit: Bryan Bishop
“Our current mailing list host, Linux Foundation, has indicated for years that they have wanted to stop hosting mailing lists, which would mean the bitcoin-dev mailing list would need to move somewhere else. We temporarily avoided that, but recently LF has informed a moderator that they will cease hosting any mailing lists later this year.”

Credit: Johan Torås Halseth
“After the transaction recycling has spurred some discussion the last week or so, I figured it could be worth sharing some research I’ve done into HTLC output aggregation, as it could be relevant for how to avoid this problem in a future channel type.”

Credit: zachxbt
“The app has been taken down but not before it received more than $768K of user funds.”

Credit: Max Baron
“Chainalysis gave the defense sensitive proprietary information about their heuristics and because of this Chainalysis requested that the Court enter a more stringent protective order, which was granted,"

Credit: nobsbitcoin
"In light of the recent proposed ruling from FinCEN regarding Bitcoin mixing, they will no longer service clients who directly interact with Bitcoin mixing services such as Wasabi, Samourai, and similar services."

Credit: Robin Linus
"An atomic swap of coins for files would enable an open market for content hosting, in which anyone can monetize their excess bandwidth and data storage capacities, by serving decentralized multimedia services."

Credit Nicholas Anthony
"I’m proud to announce the release of a new CBDC tracker. The interactive globe shows the status of each country’s CBDC efforts and explains what the risks of CBDCs would mean in the context of each country’s treatment of human rights and civil liberties,"

Credit: 0xB10C
"This is the first time I see a pool filtering OFAC-sanctioned transactions. It isn't clear to me why a pool from Asia would be the first pool to comply with US sanctions,"
F2Pool Disables Transaction Filtering Patch (For Now)

Credit: Coinkite
Coinkite proposed BBQr protocol and is looking for feedback. BBQr encodes larger files into a series of QR codes so they can cross air gaps.

Credit: mononaut
“An unknown entity set a new Bitcoin transaction fee record in fiat terms today, effectively paying over $3.1 million for a single Bitcoin transaction.”
83 BTC Fee Transaction Was a Cold Wallet Hack
"It was my BTC that paid the high fee. I created a new cold wallet, transferred 139BTC to it and it got transferred out to another wallet immediately," posted a pseudonymous account on X on November 24
ANTPOOL announces they will (attempt to) refund the gas fee

"We've made the difficult decision to remove our app from the U.S. Apple and Google app stores, and will not serve U.S. customers going forward,"
"For our existing users in the USA, rest assured that you have full access to your Bitcoin funds. You can seamlessly withdraw and transfer them to another wallet,"

Credit: D-Central Technologies
OCEAN Pool Website
“Ocean Pool represents a paradigm shift in the Bitcoin mining ecosystem. It’s not just another mining pool; it’s a beacon of innovation and decentralization in an industry that has seen increasing centralization over the years. This new pool, spearheaded by long-time Bitcoin Core developer Luke Dashjr, promises to address some of the most pressing issues facing Bitcoin mining today, including transparency, custodianship, and the centralization of block template construction.”
“Seems like @ocean_mining is filtering out some OP_RETURN transactions.”

Bitcoin Core developers working on cluster mempool started a working group (WG) on the Delving Bitcoin forum. Cluster mempool is a proposal to make it much easier to operate on the mempool while respecting the required ordering of transactions.

"Allowing mixers to be posted on bitcointalk.org before they seemingly-inevitably get declared illegal and seized is not sustainable. Therefore, linking to mixers will no longer be allowed, just the same as linking to darknet sites is already not allowed."

Credit: Landon Zinda / CoinCenter
“The goal cannot be ubiquitous surveillance and perfect prevention of crime. That goal would freeze the global economy with impossible compliance obligations and systematically deny even the innocent their freedom and privacy.”

ChicagoBitdevs / ChicagoBitdevs.github.io