btc_insider_edition

In this week’s update by

,we feature current effort to add support for recurring payments with BOLT12 in LDK.

We also cover the announcement of two new offchain protocols on Bitcoin, namely Zark by Lx DEV, a statechain with a blinded co-signer and zero-knowledge proofs, and LayerTree by Lightning Labs, a non-custodial scaling solution which allows multiple users to share a Bitcoin UTXO.

In this week’s update by

, we feature the latest news from Marmot (

) — with the team working on bringing multi-device to the protocol — and the implementation of efficient animated QR codes in Cashu (

).

We also cover the effort by Robin Linus to make taproot annexes standard in Bitcoin Core, an attack to Second that resulted in 0.75 bitcoin stolen, and the latest patch release for Core-lightning.

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In this week update by

we feature the most interesting things happened during Bitcoin++ Payment Edition in Berlin. During the three-days conference, developers met to discuss how to make Bitcoin payments better for everyone.

We also cover some interesting news from the Bitcoin ecosystem. Notably, we discuss Peter Todd joining MARA Foundation, an interesting deep dive by Vinteum, and Blink Wallet’s post-mortem on the recent attack to their users.

In this week’s update by Tuma (

) we feature some new NUT specifications currently being discussed for improving the Cashu protocol (

).

We also cover Shielded Bitcoin, a new protocol by [[alloc]init] to provide private bitcoin transactions, the new plugin by Second (

) for simplifying accepting Bitcoin through BTCPayServer (nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg), Ben Carman’s work to include Lightning in the x402 specifications, and the latest maintenance release for Core-Lightning.

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In this week’s update by

, we feature the latest releases for the Stratum V2 protocol. Maintainers focused mainly on hardening, refactoring and bug fixing, while also introducing support for BIP323.

We also cover several news from the developer ecosystem. Notably, we discuss a first working proof-of-concept for a post-quantum Lightning implementation, a new scaling protocol to bring self-custody to a huge number of users, and other interesting news.

In this week’s update by

, we feature the latest release, v3.1.0, of the bindings library for BDK (

), exposing the latest development to several programming languages.

We also cover the publication of BIP332, defining a new, opt-in P2P message, a a new BIP that has been assigned a number, BIP394, which defines a new output script descriptor, called rawtr() .

We finally discuss some other news from the Bitcoin developer ecosystem. In particular, we talk about a bug in the legacy gateway module in Fedimint (

), a blog post from Second (nostr:npub1ake09xg6t9nf6gsssumarwa7ev0kt2fdyjstvnc9k32hegr9y45seapfwt) on how to board an Ark using Payjoin, and a research by BlueWallet CTO on the security of non-custodial wallets on the App Store.

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Insider Edition talks to Egge (

), a prolific Cashu (

) developer about how he's accelerating paying with bitcoin.

In this week’s update by

we feature the latest releases in the ecash ecosystem, Fedimint (

) v0.12.0 and Cashu Dev Kit (

) v0.18.0.

We also cover the recent hack to the Liquid Network. Attackers, who stated to be whitehats, were able to stole 3998 bitcoin with a peg-out transaction leveraging a bug in the validation logic.

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Francesco Pelle, after an incredible 2 years at the helm, talks to Insider about his time leading BitPolito and his work ushering in the student org’s next chapter.