Active Discussions

BIP 54's debate examines the trade-offs between ASIC optimization and block height commitments.

Jeremy Rubin proposes a new sparse Merkle tree to avoid smart contract complications.

The community prefers pragmatic solutions, balancing innovation with Bitcoin's stability.

A new K_max protocol limit is proposed to address inefficiencies in Silent Payments.

The proposal aims to limit the number of recipients per group in transactions.

Broad community engagement and feedback are sought through various communication channels.

Dust attacks on crypto wallets involve small, revealing transactions to link addresses.

Proposed solutions include spending dust on fees with OP_RETURN or changing wallet designs.

Implementing these strategies faces challenges like user fingerprinting and increased transaction rebroadcasts.

A novel Bitcoin initiative enhances authorization by allowing complex boolean logic for transaction validation.

It utilizes cryptographic techniques for nuanced control while keeping policy complexities off-chain.

This approach offers privacy, efficiency, and expressiveness in Bitcoin transactions, notwithstanding its current developmental stage.

Ethan Heilman and colleagues rewrote BIP 360 for clarity and strategy enhancement.

The revision introduces "Pay-to-Tapscript-Hash (P2TSH)," improving quantum resistance.

New test vectors in Python and Rust are added, inviting community review.