The Taproot Activation Edition…

Links

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• Bitcoiner jobs
• Houston Hackathon in December

Taproot

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• Tracking Activation: 1st Transactions, Scriptpath spend, sweet vanity addresses, 2-of-2 scriptpath spend
• Timeline and thank yous
• Bech32m Vanity Address Generator

What’s it mean?

• Schnorr Wizardry
• Is taproot a smart contract upgrade?
• Ring signatures over the UTXO set
• Lightning Privacy
• Neutrino, Taproot, and The Evolution of BiPs 157/158

What now?

• Test Vectors
• Bech32m Adoption
• Node support
• Some miners not enforcing
• Lightning over taproot with PTLCs
• Supporting Taproot at River
• What’s next? Desire vs. Capability

Research

• Mempool Obsolete?
• Outsourced Stake
• Evaluating Mixing Services
• The State of Lightning
• Preventing channel jamming (ml discussion)

Miscellaneous

• Blockstream sponsors minimint
• mako - full bitcoin implementation in C
• 7% of nodes have all blocks and publicly reachable
• Native segwit outputs increase to 34%
• Double hashing in bitcoin
• Turing Machines on Bitcoin
• Umbrel vulnerability
• Covenants Panel at TabConf

Bitcoin Core

• 1st steps to erlay

Lightning

• LN Summit 2021
• Lnd v0.14.0-beta
• lnd - Full re-use of static AMP invoices
• lnd- remote signing
• Voltage integrates Lightning Pool
• Removing lnd’s source code from lightning specs repo
• PeerSwap

DLCs

• DLCs over lightning

Security

• How much does it cost to destroy bitcoin?
• Fake Peer Attack on Bitcoin