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Bitcoin Core has merged PR #32406 which updates relay policy to:
-datacarrier and -datacarriersize options as deprecated (but does not remove them)This change will be included in Bitcoin Core v30.
[PR #32406] policy: uncap datacarrier by default
Bitlayer has partnered with major Bitcoin mining pools to promote the adoption of BitVM, a technology enabling Bitcoin-native DeFi.
Bitlayer Partners with Miners to Supercharge Bitcoin Defi
The Bitcoin Mempool: Private Mempools
Block earned a 9.7% yield on its Bitcoin by routing payments through the Lightning Network.
c= routing node is earning 9.7% APR on its bitcoin liquidity
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Block announced it will launch bitcoin payments on Square, marking a significant milestone in making bitcoin more accessible and usable.
Block to roll out bitcoin payments on Square
There has been an increase in mailing list posts about Bitcoin and its relationship to quantum computing.
Bitcoin-dev project: Bitcoin and Quantum Computing
Jameson Lopp: Against Allowing Quantum Recovery of Bitcoin
Bas Westerbaan: jpeg resistance of various post-quantum signature schemes
Tadge Dryja: Post-Quantum commit / reveal Fawkescoin variant as a soft fork
Martin Habovštiak: Hashed keys are actually fully quantum secure
Bitcoin Core statement on the relationship between Bitcoin Core development and transaction relay policy on the network.
Bitcoin Core development and transaction relay policy
To improve privacy, broadcast locally submitted transactions (from the sendrawtransaction RPC) to the P2P network only via Tor or I2P short-lived connections, or to IPv4/IPv6 peers but through the Tor network.
link to PR
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