Active Discussions

BIP 3 was proposed in March 2025, showcasing significant community support and discussion.

Modifications include SPDX License adoption and enhanced proposal clarity in the BIPs process.

The community has until December 2, 2025, to review and discuss BIP 3's activation proposal.

The email proposes changes to manage objectionable blockchain content without impacting its integrity.

It introduces a method allowing data alteration via secure hash state understanding and sharing.

The approach aims for further dialogue on blending content moderation with blockchain principles.

Hash-based cryptographic solutions for Bitcoin are prioritized for their proven security.

Optimizations can address the challenge of large hash-based signature sizes for practical use.

The Bitcoin community is encouraged to discuss these post-quantum solutions' applicability and performance.

The proposal suggests a soft-fork for age-based expiration of dust outputs to mitigate UTXO set clutter.

Since 2023, the UTXO set size has doubled to 11 GB due to spam activities.

The solution would make small, old outputs unspendable, allowing for UTXO set cleanup.

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

The solution generalizes the sigops budget into a varops budget linked to transaction weight.

Community involvement is crucial in refining the varops budget through benchmark testing and feedback.

The Bitcoin community debates Core vs. Knots, highlighting issues like censorship and decentralization.

Hal Finney noted Bitcoin's lack of privacy undermines its fungibility as a global currency.

The post advocates for Mimblewimble integration to ensure privacy and counter centralization, emphasizing a return to Bitcoin's roots.