Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #423
- Source
- Bitcoin Optechbitcoinops.org
- Originally published
- Original length
- 13 min read
- Language
- English
SATWEI summary
Mining pools can strand a slowing miner on a share difficulty set for its old speed, Eric Price argues on Delving Bitcoin; his remedy is a timer that lowers difficulty after an interval with no shares. Davidson Souza wants the SwiftSync hintsfile to remove Utreexo deletion proofs during initial block download, and NTL has drafted a BIP for unspendable taproot internal keys.
Tags
- Mining
- P2P
- Wallet
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