Bitcoin Optech #291: Trustless Contract for Miner Feerate Futures
This week’s issue describes a proposed contract for trustless miner feerate futures, links to a coin selection algorithm for LN nodes providing dual funding liquidity, details a prototype for a vault using OP_CAT, and discusses sending and receiving ecash using LN and ZKCPs.
This issue discusses:
- ZmnSCPxj posted to Delving Bitcoin a set of scripts that will allow two parties to conditionally pay each other based on the marginal feerate to include a transaction in a future block...
- Richard Myers posted to Delving Bitcoin about creating a coin selection algorithm that is optimized for LN nodes offering liquidity via liquidity advertisements...
- Developer Rijndael posted to Delving Bitcoin about a Rust-language proof-of-concept implementation he’s written for a vault that only depends on the current consensus rules plus the proposed OP_CAT opcode...
- Anthony Towns posted to Delving Bitcoin about linking “ecash mints to the lightning network without losing ecash’s anonymity or adding any additional trust”...
- summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange;
- adds an Ecash topic;
- "Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guests Richard Myers and Rijndael on Twitter Spaces Thursday at 15:00 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!"
