Bitcoin Optech newsletter #351 is here: - announces a new aggregate signature protocol compatible with secp256k1 - describes a standardized backup scheme for wallet descriptors - summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange - Optech Newsletter #351 Recap

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #351

This week’s newsletter announces a new aggregate signature protocol compatible with secp256k1 and describes a standardized backup scheme for wall...

Jonas Nick, Tim Ruffing, Yannick Seurin posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list to announce a paper they’ve written about creating 64-byte aggregate signatures compatible with the cryptographic primitives already used by Bitcoin...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #351

This week’s newsletter announces a new aggregate signature protocol compatible with secp256k1 and describes a standardized backup scheme for wall...

Salvatore Ingala posted to Delving Bitcoin a summary of various tradeoffs related to backing up wallet descriptors and a proposed scheme that should be useful for many different types of wallets, including those using complex scripts...

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #351

This week’s newsletter announces a new aggregate signature protocol compatible with secp256k1 and describes a standardized backup scheme for wall...

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange: - Practicality of half-aggregated schnorr signatures? - What’s the largest size OP_RETURN payload ever created? - Non-LN explanation of pay-to-anchor? - Up-to-date statistics about chain reorganizations? - Are Lightning channels always P2WSH? - Child-pays-for-parent as a defense against a double spend? - What values does CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY hash? - Why can’t Lightning nodes opt to reveal channel balances for better routing efficiency? - Does post-quantum require hard fork or soft fork?

Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #351

This week’s newsletter announces a new aggregate signature protocol compatible with secp256k1 and describes a standardized backup scheme for wall...

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 15:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!

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