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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #305 is here: - describes a proposed light client protocol for silent payments - summarizes two new proposed descriptors for taproot - links to a discussion about whether opcodes with overlapping features should be added in a soft fork - summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange - Optech Newsletter #305 Recap on Twitter Spaces https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/31/ Setor Blagogee posted to Delving Bitcoin to describe a draft specification for a protocol to help lightweight clients receive silent payments (SPs)... https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/31/#light-client-protocol-for-silent-payments Oghenovo Usiwoma posted to Delving Bitcoin about two new proposed descriptors for constructing taproot spend conditions... https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/31/#raw-taproot-descriptors Pierre Rochard asks if proposed soft forks that can provide much of the same features at a similar cost should be considered mutually exclusive, or whether it would make sense to activate multiple proposals and let developers use whichever alternative they prefer... https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/31/#should-overlapping-soft-fork-proposals-be-considered-mutually-exclusive Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange: - What’s the smallest possible coinbase tx / block size? - Understanding Script’s number encoding, CScriptNum - Is there a way to make an address public but hide how many BTC it contains? - Testing increased feerates in regtest - Why is my P2P_V2 peer connected over a v1 connection? - Does a P2PKH tx send to the hash of the uncompressed or compressed key? - What are different ways to broadcast a block to the Bitcoin network? https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2024/05/31/#selected-qa-from-bitcoin-stack-exchange Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter with special guests Oghenovo Usiwoma and Pierre Rochard on Twitter Spaces Tuesday at 14:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions! https://twitter.com/i/spaces/1eaKbgnYgOBGX