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.
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askrenecommand referring also to "ask" Rene Pickhardt ? 😂😂😂😂😂Yes, it's named for his min-cost-flow research! Rene generally knows best.