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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #418 is here:

  • describes a proposed contract protocol for mitigating Lightning Network channel jamming
  • reports on the availability of static Bitcoin Core binaries for testing
  • summarizes a change replacing Bitcoin Core’s per-peer transaction rate-limiting with a global approach
  • Optech Newsletter #418 Podcast
    https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/08/14/

Antoine Riard posted to Delving Bitcoin a new approach to mitigate channel jamming on the Lightning Network...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/08/14/#conditional-message-transfer-contract-to-solve-jamming

Michael Ford (fanquake) posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list announcing test builds of static Bitcoin Core release binaries produced using the project’s existing Guix infrastructure...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/08/14/#static-bitcoin-core-binaries-available-for-testing

Anthony Towns posted to Delving Bitcoin announcing the merge of Bitcoin Core #34628, which replaces the per-peer transaction rate-limiting with a global approach...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/08/14/#replacing-per-peer-transaction-rate-limiting-with-global-rate-limits

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter streaming live on X/Twitter Tuesday at 16:30 UTC.

Core Lightning #9150 introduces impressions, a new type of liquidity information that records successful payments through a channel and allows the askrene RPC command (see Newsletter #316) to adjust its liquidity estimates for subsequent routing attempts.

Is that askrene command referring also to "ask" Rene Pickhardt ? 😂😂😂😂😂

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Yes, it's named for his min-cost-flow research! Rene generally knows best.

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