Developing news

This page contains a list of news stories from our sources that we plan to summarize for a future newsletter. For regular News items, we try to summarize all significant discussion from the previous week (Monday-Sunday), but sometimes a story is borderline notable and could use some seasoning, or it's too complicated for us to figure out quickly (possibly leading us to schedule a Deep Dive), or our writers simply don't have enough time to work on it this week. On rare occasion, we might also delay writing about something for our Notable Code and Documentation Changes section, usually because we need to do additional research to understand it. We also won't write about anything that best fits into one of our monthly sections (e.g. Changing Consensus or Changes to Services and Client Software) until that section is next published, unless the news is especially urgent.

Any Optech contributor is welcome to add to this list (please be sure to include at least one link per item). Items will be removed when they are written about or when it's clear that we won't write about them. Note that many stories which initially make this list will not be written about: when we take a serious look at them, they turn out to be less interesting than anticipated.

News

Changing Consensus

• Cleanup SF sigops: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/great-consensus-cleanup-revival/710/64
• Timewarp 600 seconds: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/timewarp-attack-600-second-grace-period/1326/28
• Covenants for braidpool: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/challenge-covenants-for-braidpool/1370/1
• More transitory SFs: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/transitory-soft-forks-for-consensus-cleanup-forks/1333/11
• Deterministic tx selection (news if used for Braidpool, consensus if used to address global tx selection concerns, may be useful to describe immediately before/after DAG DAA and covenants for Braidpool which are both consensus): https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/deterministic-tx-selection-for-censorship-resistance/842/12
• DAG difficulty adjustment algo: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/fastest-possible-pow-via-simple-dag/1331