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Bitcoin mailing list post about making BIP 324, the peer to peer encryption BIP for Bitcoin, post quantum secure. https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/n_5WuKVYqwI/m/lBooLis3AQAJ
“PR2137 introduces BIP452, which introduces the possibility to share the UTXO set over the P2P layer. The proposal defines a way to improve the assumeUTXO feature by providing a way for new nodes to receive the UTXO set directly from peers, instead of from external sources.” - bitcoin++ Insider Edition
https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/pull/2137
Formosa builds upon BIP-0039 by organizing mnemonic words into themed sentences with syntactic roles (e.g., subject, verb, adjective, object, place). Each sentence draws vocabulary from a coherent semantic domain — medieval fantasy, science fiction, nature, finance, or any custom theme — enabling the user to form vivid mental images that reduce memorization effort per bit of entropy. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0450.mediawiki
This proposal defines a new tapscript opcode, OP_TWEAKADD, that takes an x-only public key and a 32-byte integer t on the stack and pushes the x-only public key corresponding to P + t*G, where P is the lifted point for the input x-coordinate and G is the secp256k1 generator. The operation mirrors the Taproot tweak used by BIP340 signers and enables simple, verifiable key modifications inside script without revealing private keys or relying on hash locks. https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0449.md
Tim Bouma implemented on-chain zaps using silent payments (some related privacy concerns that still apply and some fun technical drama over original on-chain zap PR).
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsv3gja8vy964r08vhvmmlr2jj3sx06h75szddzknjgjc9qmhdalpct2pq5c
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs9g38wpxsxj25axpgqevd8xkf4mnmkx5w5ftjvuh8rr5kas9r62csa48x96
Cube is a virtual machine designed to enable trusless smart contract execution natively on Bitcoin. Providing a fully trustless execution environment with unilateral exit, Cube ensures users retain complete control over their funds. https://medium.com/cube-bitcoin/introducing-cube-8b3702e470a5
Key feature of Electrum Protocol 1.7 would allow wallets to rescan for addresses without requiring xpubs.
https://x.com/Erik17192799/status/2059694531293958486
https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum-protocol/pull/2
This proposal improves liveness guarantees for custodial ecash mints with on-chain reserves. It allows a mint operator to delegate control of mint reserves to third-party mint operators in a non-interactive way. https://gist.github.com/lukechilds/302e7fa04b09d6e4568bdcd64cb43356
Bitaxe
https://x.com/StratumV2/status/2062892299579691266
Public Pool
https://x.com/StratumV2/status/2062959948720447919
MKPool
https://x.com/StratumV2/status/2064034223460069416
https://x.com/JeremyRubin/status/2057948104960233561
https://slaynews.com/uk-government-moves-mandate-digital-id-every-smartphone/
https://x.com/signalapp/status/2064069692168519931