Full RBF network implications

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-October/020980.html

-mempoolfullrbf (flag to control whether your mempool accepts RBF transactions) https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25353

-walletrbf (flag to control whether your bitcoin core wallet produces RBF enabled txs) https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25610

P2P Advertise full RBF via service flags https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/25600

Credit: Dario Sneidermanis, Muun, Antoine Riard

The developers behind the Muun wallet are concerned about services offering depending on zero confirmation bitcoin applications. Bitcoin devs are working towards supporting RBF by default as relay policy on the bitcoin network.

Lnd parsing bugs

Lnd has had two parsing bugs within a month because of users publishing large taproot transactions to the bitcoin network.

Bug 1, max script size

https://twitter.com/roasbeef/status/1579274303006474242

https://mempool.space/tx/7393096d97bfee8660f4100ffd61874d62f9a65de9fb6acf740c4c386990ef73

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/7002#issuecomment-1272618085

Bug 2, max witness elements with taproot tx

https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/issues/7096

https://twitter.com/roasbeef/status/1587484301494349824

https://mempool.space/tx/73be398c4bdc43709db7398106609eea2a7841aaf3a4fa2000dc18184faa2a7e

Should we update our nodes, should LN be more stable wrt to bitcoind versions?

https://twitter.com/bitcoinerrorlog/status/1590084782196944896

Credit: Burak, Roasbeef, Ben Carman

Privacy footgun catches Silk Road hacker

Change output are hard to manage. The Silk Road hacker accidentally co-mingled clean and dirty funds resulting in his arrest by the US govt.

https://twitter.com/FractalEncrypt/status/1590004511015571456

Credit: Dimi