Bitcoin Optech #285: Past CLN Vulnerability, New Soft Fork Proposals & More

This week’s newsletter discloses CLN past vulnerability, announces two new soft fork proposals, looks at the cluster mempool proposal, and updated specification and implementation of transaction compression, and summarizes a discussion about Miner Extractable Value in non-zero ephemeral anchors.

Bitcoin Optech #285: Past CLN Vulnerability, New Soft Fork Proposals & More

This issue:

  • discloses a past vulnerability affecting Core Lightning;
  • announces two new soft fork proposals;
  • provides an overview of the cluster mempool proposal;
  • relays information about an updated specification and implementation of transaction compression;
  • summarizes a discussion about Miner Extractable Value (MEV) in non-zero ephemeral anchors;
  • adds an Ark topic;
"Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guests Brandon Black, Chris Stewart, and Gregory Sanders on Twitter Spaces Thursday at 15:00 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!"

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