Bitcoin Optech #319: Stratum v2 Extension for Fee Revenue Sharing
#319 covers a proposal for allowing Stratum v2 pool miners to receive compensation for the transaction fees contained in the block templates they turn into shares, a research fund investigating OP_CAT , and a discussion about mitigating merkle tree vulnerabilities with or without a soft fork.
This issue:
- summarizes a proposal for allowing Stratum v2 pool miners to receive compensation for the transaction fees contained in the block templates they turn into shares;
- announces a research fund investigating the proposed OP_CAT opcode;
- describes a discussion about mitigating merkle tree vulnerabilities with or without a soft fork;
- Bitcoin Core 28.0rc1 is a release candidate for the next major version of the predominant full node implementation. A testing guide is available here.
- Core Lightning 24.08 is a major release of this popular LN node implementation containing new features and bug fixes.
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