Bitcoin Optech #248: Proposed Removal of BIP35 Mempool P2P Message

The Bitcoin Operations Technology Group (Optech) works to bring the best open source technologies and techniques to Bitcoin-using businesses in order to lower costs and improve customer experiences.

This week’s newsletter relays a request for feedback about a proposal to remove support for the BIP35 mempool P2P protocol message from Bitcoin Core and includes regular sections with popular questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and summaries of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

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