Bitcoin Optech #305: Light Client Protocol for Silent Payments

This issue covers a proposed light client protocol for silent payments, summarizes two new proposed descriptors for taproot, and links to a discussion about whether opcodes with overlapping features should be added in a soft fork.

Bitcoin Optech #305: Light Client Protocol for Silent Payments

This newsletter:

  • describes a proposed light client protocol for silent payments;
  • summarizes two new proposed descriptors for taproot;
  • links to a discussion about whether opcodes with overlapping features should be added in a soft fork;
  • summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange.
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