Bitcoin Optech newsletter #412 is here:
- links to benchmarking around SLH-DSA STARK aggregation
- points to discussion of a paper on constructing hybrid strongly-unforgeable signature schemes
- examines lattice-based PQ signatures
- describes a proposal for public key recovery for P2MR EC leaves
- summarizes a thread on aligning privacy incentives in P2MR
- describes and alternative to banning all 64-byte transactions
- summarizes a proposal to trigger EC disabling with a NUMS point spend or hashrate majority
- Optech Newsletter #412 Podcast
Remix7531 posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list his benchmark results for aggregating many SPHINCS signature verifications into a single STARK proof...
Pieter Wuille posted to Delving Bitcoin about a EuroCrypt 2026 paper on constructing hybrid strongly-unforgeable signature schemes from a schnorr-like scheme and an arbitrary post-quantum signature scheme...
Nikita Karetnikov posted to Delving Bitcoin and cross-posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list about a Blockstream blog post comparing post-quantum signature families, where lattice-based schemes appear favorable on size and functionality...
starius posted to Delving Bitcoin a proposal to add a recoverable elliptic curve (EC) key leaf type to BIP360 (P2MR). The idea is to recover the EC public key from the schnorr signature...
Conduition posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a proposed BIP360 (P2MR) change to require every P2MR control block to include at least one 32-byte merkle authentication path (i.e. ban depth-zero script trees)...
Jeremy Rubin posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a draft BIP proposing an alternative to the consensus cleanup (BIP54) rule making 64-byte witness-stripped transactions consensus-invalid...
Pieter Wuille wrote to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list about codifying the expected future disabling of elliptic curve (EC) spending paths within new post-quantum output types such as BIP360 (P2MR) and P2TRv2...
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter streaming live on X/Twitter Tuesday at 16:30 UTC.
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #412
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases a...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #412
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases a...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #412
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases a...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #412
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases a...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #412
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases a...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #412
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases a...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #412
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases a...
Bitcoin Optech
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #412
This week’s newsletter includes our regular sections summarizing discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases a...
