Pieter Wuille

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Issue #847: Smorgasbord Friday

There is a lot going on that I think you freaks should be aware of.

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Issue #815: Smorgasbord Tuesday

That was this week's Smorgasbord! We'll be back with another whenever we feel like it.

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Issue #659: BIP BIP HOORAY!

And the haters will tell you Bitcoin development is stagnant. LOL!

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Issue #627: Confidential transactions

Personally, I think we'll be able to achieve privacy on layers above the base protocol.

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Issue #592: Good piece on Schnorr + Taproot

Learn how Schnorr signatures differ from ECDSA signatures, the current algorithm used to generate Bitcoin private-public key pairs. What a Merkelized Abstract Syntax Tree is and how Taproot's construction is different.

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Issue #578: Erlay may be on the way

Erlay would be a huge level up for Bitcoin's P2P layer as it would help reduce bandwidth requirements by 40% (!!), increase network connectivity, and increase privacy.

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Issue #552: Miniscript is here

Slowly but surely, the Bitcoin Network and the tools built to leverage it become more robust. Making the network more valuable and driving the feedback loop into a higher gear.

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Issue #493: Erlay, a step towards an ideal?

As you can see, Erlay could severely reduce the amount of bandwidth needed to connect to other nodes when compared to the current transaction relay method. Currently, if you are connected to 32 nodes it would take 17.3GB of bandwidth per month to relay transactions via your node.

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Issue #478: bip-taproot

While it is exciting to finally see a BIP for these improvements, I believe it is important to temper our excitement with a healthy dose of skepticism and adversarial thinking.

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Issue #323: More news on this Bitcoin bug

A world in which the bug was exploited for an extended period of time before being caught and patched seems like a nightmare. However, this incident is another good example of disclosing and patching done right, considering the circumstances.

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