Proposal For A New Mempool Design
The proposed solution involves maintaining a total ordering of the mempool's transactions, which would be used to implement symmetrically opposite mining and eviction algorithms.
Research
Bitcoin, CTV Covenants, and The Enigma Network
"Bip-119 or CheckTemplateVerify (CTV), introduces the capability to pre-commit transactions through pre-signed hashed transactions. But what does this mean exactly? To put it in perspective, if Taproot enables signature aggregation, CTV takes it a step further by enabling transaction aggregation."
Countries Where Internet Access Has Been Restricted At Least Once
Autocratic governments around the world are increasingly turning to internet blackouts and censorship to maintain their rule, prevent the dissemination of information and to impede organizational efforts.
ZeroSync: Introducing Validity Proofs to Bitcoin
The paper authored by Robin Linus and Lukas George discusses the implementation of the chain state proof and presents zkCoins, a client-side validation protocol combined with ZKPs, improving on RGB and Taro.
Bitcoin Held On Exchanges Hits Five Year Low
The amount of Bitcoin on exchanges is now at its lowest ratio since December 2017.
Proposal: Payment Route Reservation - PTLC/HTLC with Reusable Static Invoices
"The following proposal is intended to adapt the existing PTLC protocol into Payment Route Reservation flow."
Fiatjaf: Using Spacechains and Fedimint to Solve Scaling
"The recent spike in fees caused by Ordinals and BRC-20 shitcoinery has shown that Lightning isn’t a silver bullet. Channels are too fragile, it costs a lot to open a channel under a high fee environment, to run a routing node and so on."
Bitcoin Fundamentals Strengthen As Recession Looms - ARK Report
"Long-term-holder activity and strong network usage indicate a bullish trend for bitcoin," says The Bitcoin Monthly report by ARK Invest.
Tracking Growth in Payjoin Adoption
Developer Dan Gould has been documenting the growth of the technology in a few big tables on the Bitcoin wiki this past week.
You Can Buy a Hacked Credit Card for Only $15, A Verified Binance Account for $410, New Report Shows
Privacy Affairs research into the supply and prices of various goods and services sold on the dark web shows that stealing user sensitive accounts and data has become relatively inexpensive.
LNMesh: Offline Lightning Network Payments Using Community Wireless Mesh Networks
"Our proposed approaches work well and can achieve success rates up to %95 on large mobile wireless mesh networks" when channels have sufficient liquidity.
The Emerging Bitcoin-Native Venture Capital Landscape 2022 - Report
Trammel Venture Partners (TVP) announced a first-of-its-kind research brief on the emergence of Bitcoin-native startups as a growth category in venture capital.