World Crypto Network: Eclipse Attack Defense, Bech32 Readability, Gap Limit, Chain Reorgs ~ Bitcoin OpTech #52 Featured

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This week’s newsletter announces a pending disclosure of minor vulnerabilities for older Bitcoin Core releases, suggests continued testing of RCs for LN software, and describes a proposed technique to make Bitcoin Core nodes a bit more resistant to eclipse attacks. Also included are our regular sections on bech32 sending support, popular StackExchange topics, and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure projects. https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2019/06/26/ https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/88128/gap-limit-is-always-a-problem-possible-to-fix https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/87991/how-bitcoin-nodes-update-utxo-set-when-their-latests-blocks-are-replaced https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/88237/is-there-a-reason-to-why-bitcoin-core-does-not-implement-bip39 https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/88201/is-signature-private-key-required-to-accept-payment-over-lightning-network The Bitcoin Operations Technology Group (Optech) works to bring the best open source technologies and techniques to Bitcoin-using businesses in order to lower costs and improve customer experiences. An initial focus for the group is working with its member organizations to reduce transaction sizes and minimize the effect of subsequent transaction fee increases. We provide workshops, documentation, weekly newsletters, original research, case studies and announcements, and help facilitate improved relations between businesses and the open source community. https://bitcoinops.org/ If you have learned something valuable, donate a couple sats to Max as a thank you note: 3Fe6dcwhkLnMo7c2FrkYduR5xJgo38dTTS https://tallyco.in/HillebrandMax Support the show by stacking sats on https://hodlhodl.com/join/ERCT Listen to WCN Audio Podcasts: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-world-crypto-network-podcast/id825708806 Check out the brand new http://WorldCryptoNetwork.com/ Find out more about Max https://towardsliberty.com Follow WCN on Twitter: https://twitter.com/WorldCryptoNet Follow Max on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HillebrandMax ARCHIVE OF KNOWLEDGE: https://towardsliberty.com/videos # Technicals: Bitcoin to the Max: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSZtGhC7nIr_Mf1oCeP8U1tV Bitcoin Only: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSYX2cNoOaV-w-9QuZ62LDk_ Open Source Everything: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSb1h33FZbsrtr1feIIwTBHt Bitcoin-Dev Mailing List: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSZWpXUZAp2y0ftJsjXPWdtO Schnorr: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSbUYnzXthFazpUw6ZJCUKOu # Economics: Read Rothbard ~ Use Bitcoin: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSafpOorg0NdeVXGIPNqV_8a Anarchy in Money: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSbVzuInEB0Kc7rchuzIHyQh Lightning Network Multi Signatures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSaBmpAmdp_icu2PkywjeUI6 # Tools: Nodl Personal Bitcoin Assistant: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSYvbhhUpIehNqnXFLkz1AD1 Bisq Decentralized Exchange: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSZR33X7kJmDMwIEH-wrrpCJ ColdCard Wallet: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSZJzC4besvtu8CSroBosrdt GPG + Yubikey: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSZkVpgAZjAFfFp4D0SHLnFw Purism: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSZm6k6GlJRhY6T7wSvoEWbG # Readings: Bitcoin Op Tech Newsletter: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSY9pV6EI5zkHcut5UTCs1cp The Ethics of Money Production: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSZFi81lduijpsmkhxQv2Gm8 What Has Government Done to Our Money? By Murray Rothbard: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSbPVUAhYqILAYQ3uUbh2zOu # Conferences: Breaking Bitcoin 2019: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSbbZjSL10U4zS0_0J3n4MyN Hackers Congress Paralelni Polis 2018: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSY8xt-x-KoDb6L380odP_qu Baltic Honeybadger 2018: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSZsgH48ZDxNdzRXbg_pvMnz Understanding Bitcoin 2019: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSYnUncEaz5SM0ihfjPtGTvO Mises University: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSanfYiAp8JSHxIjBm66yPf5 Hayek Summer Workshop: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPj3KCksGbSbx7WQMTJAG6wLd4tK9Llr9

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