Bitcoin Optech #226

This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to enable generalized smart contracts on Bitcoin and summarizes a paper about addressing LN channel jamming attacks.

This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to enable generalized smart contracts on Bitcoin and summarizes a paper about addressing LN channel jamming attacks. Also included are our regular sections with descriptions of changes to services and client software, announcements of new releases and release candidates, and summaries of notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

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