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Bitcoin Core v30's popularity advances a softfork limiting data at consensus level.

The proposal features proactive and reactive activation, expiring after one year.

It calls for community support and technical contributions for swift implementation.

Antoine Poinsot updated on BIP54, showing progress in development and testing.

BIP54 test vectors cover sigops limit, new transaction size, and timestamp restrictions.

Poinsot seeks feedback, aiming for Bitcoin protocol enhancement compatibility.

BIP 3 reached "Proposed" status in March 2025, followed by minor adjustments for improvement.

A pull request to activate BIP 3 shows significant community support, with over 600 comments.

Recent changes to BIP 3 focus on enhancing the BIP process clarity and forbidding AI-generated submissions.

The p2share network decentralizes bitcoin mining, rewarding miners with transferable "shares."

Rewards are given to a random shareholder, ensuring efficiency and minimizing transaction bloat.

This model promotes a trustless, efficient mining ecosystem and may impact future blockchain developments.

The blog proposes `OP_STARK_VERIFY` for direct STARK proof verification in Bitcoin Script.

It highlights the benefits and challenges of integrating STARKs for Bitcoin scalability and privacy.

The initiative is explored for its potential to enhance security and efficiency, despite notable risks.

Bitcoin Core's v31.0 release celebrates a decade since adopting libsecp256k1, enhancing signature validation speed.

Benchmarking showed libsecp256k1 vastly outperforms OpenSSL in ECDSA signature verification on the secp256k1 curve.

Efforts to improve OpenSSL's performance for the secp256k1 curve are emerging, indicating potential broader focus on optimization.