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Osuntokun’s pull request for LND is still marked as a work in progress as of this writing, so we don’t know yet when the feature will become generally available to LND users or whether other LN implementations will also provide the same feature in a compatible way. The verifier’s software then validates this information the same way it would to determine whether a spending transaction was valid. This protocol requirement means that a spending transaction with a high feerate can, through averaging, make it profitable to mine its unconfirmed parent transaction even if that parent has a low feerate. The basic mechanism is that the authorized spender or spenders for an address generate scriptSigs and witness data (including their signatures) in much the same way they would if they were spending the funds-except instead of signing the spending transaction, they sign their arbitrary message instead (plus some predetermined extra data to ensure they can’t be tricked into signing an actual transaction).

This week, BIP143 co-author Johnson Lau posted some suggested changes to sighash flags, including new flags, that could be implemented as a soft fork using the witness script update mechanism provided as part of segwit. Although this particular tool mirrors functionality already provided by the lnwallet.Signer service, the mechanism used to enable this new service makes it possible for developers to extend the RPCs (gRPCs) provided through LND with gRPCs provided by other code on the local machine or even a remote service. 2081 adds RPCs that allow signing a transaction template where some inputs are controlled by LND. CPFP even works for multiple descendant transactions, but the more relationships that need to be considered, the longer it takes the node to create the most profitable possible block template for miners to work on. Even if you never connect to your node over the Internet, having an open RPC port carries a risk that an attacker will guess your login credentials. This update to Eclair only allows probing a node’s direct peers-the nodes with which Eclair has an open channel.

14491 allows the importmulti RPC to import keys specified using an output script descriptor. 15226 adds a blank parameter to the createwallet RPC that allows creating a wallet without an HD seed or any private keys. Keys imported this way will be converted to the current wallet datastructure, but the eventual plan is for Bitcoin Core’s wallet to use descriptors internally. The wallet can then have private or public key material added to it (e.g. an HD seed using sethdseed or a watching-only address using importaddress). Payouts can be as high as 350%: When you trade you will see a payout value in percentage at option expiry. While trading is a lot of fun and has earned me some income, I am more fascinated by the technology and right here the philosophy that drive crypto, and I can't wait to see where it all goes in the future. Even if they don’t see general adoption, their privacy advantage means they could end up well deployed among niche users. Trusting someone else’s block explorer (which is a common cost-cutting measure when indexing data yourself becomes too expensive) introduces third party trust into Bitcoin software, increases centralization, and decreases privacy. This week’s newsletter suggests helping test a Bitcoin Core maintenance release candidate, provides a link to a modern block explorer whose code has been open sourced, and briefly describes a suggestion for signature hashes to optionally cover transaction size.