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808 adds a warning that nodes must not release their own HTLC preimages unless they’re the final receiver of a payment. In the meantime, Johan Halseth posted to the Lightning-Dev mailing list this week about a PR he opened to LND that will only accept a payment if the maximum amount of fees a peer can steal from that payment (and all previously accepted pending payments) is less than the channel reserve-the minimum amount that must be kept in each side of a channel to serve as a penalty in case an old state is broadcast. ● Fidelity bonds for LN routing: Gleb Naumenko and Antoine Riard posted a to the Lightning-Dev mailing list to use stake certificates (another name for fidelity bonds) to prevent a type of channel jamming attack first described in 2015. These are attacks where a malicious user sends a payment to themselves or a confederate through a series of channels and then delays either accepting or rejecting the payment. 20981 has been opened to explore potential use cases for USDT probes in Bitcoin Core now that the framework has been merged. The release notes do warn that PSBTs generated by this version of C-Lightning will be rejected by some older versions of Bitcoin Core (versions 0.20.0 and earlier); this is a consequence of a change made to the PSBT specification and Bitcoin Core to defend against a possible fee overpayment attack.

17920 adds support for using GNU Guix to reproducibly build Bitcoin Core binaries for macOS. Sign in to the Bitcoin Button game using your Binance or Twitter account. ● New research and development organization announced: Brink, a new organization for “funding, education, and mentoring” of Bitcoin contributors was announced on Twitter this week. ● Lightning-based messenger application Juggernaut launches: In a blog post announcing the first release of Juggernaut, John Cantrell describes how the messaging and wallet features are built using keysend payments. ● Backdoored VM images: a user on Reddit posted about losing funds after using an AWS image that came with a Bitcoin full node already installed and synced to a recent block. Until a new block is added to the ledger, it is not known which miner will create the block. This week’s newsletter links to a website that tracks miner support for taproot activation, announces a new organization funding Bitcoin research and development, and includes our regular sections with popular questions and answers from the Bitcoin Stack Exchange, announcements of releases and release candidates, and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software. ● Website listing miner support for taproot activation: Bitcoin mining pool Poolin has created a website (https://m.blog.naver.com/ajjuguru) to help track miner support for activating taproot (including schnorr signatures and tapscript).

As of this writing, all pools listed on the site-who represent more than half of the current network hash rate-have indicated that they will support activation. Additionally, please remember that your VM provider and their support staff can likely access any private keys on your server even if you perfect every other aspect of your security. 4171 updates the hsmtool command with a new dumponchaindescriptors parameter that prints the output script descriptors for the keys and scripts used by C-Lightning’s onchain wallet. 4715 adds a –reset-wallet-transactions configuration parameter that will remove all onchain transactions from LND’s wallet and then start a rescan of the block chain to repopulate the wallet. And so literally the way that could happen is when you go to buy something on the Internet, you basically do a conversion of dollars to Bitcoin, send the money across the wire, and then the merchant on the other end immediately converts Bitcoin right back to dollars. Plugin authors wishing to ensure their plugin’s relative load ordering in this way should amend their getmanifest method’s response as shown here. To improve your local-language experience, sometimes we employ an auto-translation plugin.