Bitcoin Optech #215

Wallet label export format: Craig Raw posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a proposed BIP to standardize the format wallets use to export labels for their addresses and transactions.  A standardized export format could in theory allow two pieces of…

btcd v0.23.1-beta released

btcjson: Update WalletCreateFundedPsbtOpts.FeeRate type by @gnasr in #1729rpcserverhelp: Remove extra period for gettxout–synopsis by @kcalvinalvin in #1733mempool: export isDust for use in other projects by @Crypt-iQ in #1739Switch irc to libera.chat by @jcvernaleo in #1725rpcclient: Export symbols needed for custom…

lnd v0.15.1-beta released

zero conf channelsscid alisases (random scid values in the invoice)switches to using taproot addresses everywhere applicable by defaultan optional database migration that can potential reclaim GBs of disk space for old or large lnd nodes

Iran Greenlights Bitcoin Payments For Imports

Iran passed an act which enables the use of bitcoin and cryptocurrency payments for imports through a comprehensive legal framework, per a report from local news outlet Tasnim.Iranian Minister of Industry, Mine and Trade Reza Fatemi Amin revealed that the…

Self Sovereign Identity, TBD, and Web5

Self Sovereign Identity (SSI) is an umbrella term well-detailed by Christopher Allen, and inspired by many in the Identity community before him, in his 2016 blog post: The Path to Self-Sovereign Identity, which identifies Ten Principles of Self-Sovereign Identity: Existence.…

Joinmarket v0.9.7 Released

This is a notable reworking of the tumbler algorithm, mostly motivated by finding an error which was causing failures for people that tried to use more than the default number of mixdepths (0-4). The tumbler is now able to work…