Active Discussions

Luke Dashjr criticizes BIP 54, citing security concerns with the coinbase transaction's nLockTime.

Jeremy Rubin proposes a sparse Merkle tree to address transaction size issues, facing skepticism.

The debate favors pragmatic solutions over drastic protocol changes for Bitcoin's stability.

A technical demonstration integrated Falcon into Bitcoin Core, enhancing post-quantum security.

Falcon's efficient performance and smaller key sizes make it preferable for Bitcoin transactions.

This project benchmarks Falcon's advantages, aiming to guide Bitcoin's future cryptographic updates.

Version 0.7.1 of libsecp256k1 has been released with new features and security enhancements.

A detailed changelog is available, highlighting all updates and improvements made in this release.

The announcement targets the Bitcoin Development Mailing List, guiding to the official GitHub page for downloads.

A new Tapscript leaf version aims to mitigate denial-of-service attacks in Bitcoin script execution.

Benchmarking focuses on block-sized scripts to determine the varops budget's efficiency, capped at 20.8 billion units.

Community involvement is encouraged for refining the varops budget, with a call to test and provide feedback through GitHub.

SHRINCS combines stateful and stateless hash-based signatures for efficient, robust operations.

It seamlessly transitions between modes to maintain security, even if state management fails.

Detailed SHRINCS insights and applications are explored in "Hash-based Signatures for Bitcoin."

Ethan Heilman and others rewrote BIP 360 for clarity and quantum risk mitigation.

A new "Pay-to-Tapscript-Hash" output type is introduced to enhance Bitcoin's quantum resistance.

The update adds Python and Rust test vectors and seeks community feedback on BIP360.org.