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Newsletters: add 69 (2019-10-23) #239

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@harding harding commented Oct 20, 2019

Todo:

  • Needs link for details and RSVP of taproot review club
  • Either C-Lightning gets released or I'll change the action item to a RC note

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Great job as always @harding!

one hour each week being a group meeting and the other three hours
being your own independent review of the proposals. In addition to
review, developers will be encouraged to optionally implement a
proof-of-concept that either roughly intergrates schnorr or taproot
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intergrates -> integrates

documentation.

The ultimate goal of the review club is to allow participants to
gain enough technical familarity with the proposals to be able to
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familarity -> familiarity


## News

- **Taproot review club:** starting FIXME:date, several Bitcoin
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I believe this is scheduled for the first week of November

has to claim its particular payment---from 144 blocks to 40 blocks
(see [Newsletter #40][lnd cltv delta]) but older LND nodes and some
other implementations have continued to use 144 as their default. At
a delta 144, the maximum expiry of 2,016 makes the maximum-length
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delta 144 -> delta of 144

either vocally support the proposals, advocate for changes to the
proposals, or lucidly explain why the proposals shouldn't be adopted
into the Bitcoin consensus rules. Changing Bitcoin is something
that shouldn't be done lightly and it's in every user's interest
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nit: done lightly or taken lightly?

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harding commented Oct 21, 2019

@adamjonas edits made. Thanks!, and sorry that I apparently forgot to spell check this week.

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Added a notable ecosystem changes (better naming suggestions welcome!) section to the newsletter

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harding commented Oct 21, 2019

For a name alternative, maybe call it "Changes to services and client software". The current text LGTM but the section should probably be mentioned as part of the summary in the newsletter's first paragraph.

[libsecp256k1][libsecp256k1 repo], [Bitcoin Improvement Proposals
(BIPs)][bips repo], and [Lightning BOLTs][bolts repo].*

- [LND #3696][] raises the default maximum CLTV expiry from 1,008 blocks
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I think this is LND #3595 instead?

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Looks good. I've left a bunch of style nits. Feel free to ignore.

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that a large number of technical reviewers examine the proposals for
possible flaws before they are implemented and before users are
asked to consider upgrading their full nodes to enforce the new
rules---a change that can't be safely undone for as long as the
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Either expand "a change that can't be safely undone for as long as the rules affect anyone's bitcoins." into its own sentence, or remove it entirely.

- [LND #3696][] raises the default maximum CLTV expiry from 1,008 blocks
(about 1 week) to 2,016 blocks (about two weeks). This is the maximum
amount of time a new payment will be valid before it can be reclaimed
by its spender if it hasn't been accepted by the receiver. LND
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I think the use of 'spender' and 'receiver' is slightly confusing here. If I understand this correctly, the CLTV value is for use by any hop in the route to claim the payment from the next hop. That's why it needs to be decremented for each hop.

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Right, but the max CLTV value is the value that applies to the first hop, e.g. if you try to send a payment to me and I don't accept it (and nobody along the route rejects it), you'll have to wait the max CLTV blocks before you can spend your money again. Thus its the max value that most concerns the user because it's the maximum amount of time that some of their funds can be stuck.

by its spender if it hasn't been accepted by the receiver. LND
recently tried to keep this at 1,008 blocks by decreasing the CLTV
delta---the amount of time each routing node along the payment path
has to claim its particular payment---from 144 blocks to 40 blocks
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I think it would be clearer to explicitly say that the delta is the value that the CLTV is decremented in each hop.

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That would be a good description of how it works but I feel the current description better communications what it accomplishes---assures that you have a minimum of x blocks in which to claim your payment. The value is important because, if your node is offline for more than x blocks, someone might be able to steal from you.

has to claim its particular payment---from 144 blocks to 40 blocks
(see [Newsletter #40][lnd cltv delta]) but older LND nodes and some
other implementations have continued to use 144 as their default. At
a delta of 144, the maximum expiry of 2,016 makes the maximum-length
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... if all hops in the route use a delta of 144.

other implementations have continued to use 144 as their default. At
a delta of 144, the maximum expiry of 2,016 makes the maximum-length
routing path about 14 hops; at a delta of 40, it's theoretically about
50 (but [BOLT4][] limits this to 20, or slightly more with recent
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It's a little confusing to say that the limit is 50 but that you can't actually reach that limit. I'd omit this.

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harding commented Oct 22, 2019

Pushed edits @bitschmidty feedback and most @jnewbery feedback (replies left for remaining points). Also changed the action items section to point to RCs for both Bitcoin Core and C-Lightning.

Note: I implemented this suggestion of John's as a separate move-only commit to hopefully keep re-review easy.

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ACK fb589d1. Just needs the Taproot Review Club links fixed.

Thanks @harding 👨‍🚀

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Great job @harding -- sorry for the late review. No worries if it's too late to take it into account.


## News

- **Taproot review club:** starting the first week of November, several Bitcoin
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Semantic nit: in the Square Crypto proposal, no mention is made of a club and there could be potential confusion with the PR review club as they can be seen as similar like here.

Suggest: s/Taproot review club/Taproot BIP review/

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The overview has a section entitled "What happens this review club is over". Also, the idea was originally pitched as "BIP-proposal-review-club".

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Do you think there's harm in calling it a review club? I didn't think so myself, as any confusion seems likely to me to be a chance to promote both organizations.

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Oh ok, we're not looking at the same doc. Yes, I would avoid confusion between the two unless it's expressly desired to extend the concept, but it's not my call.

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TIL about aj's doc. Interestingly it does not have any dates for the sessions, apart from the Oct. 30 signup, whereas moneyball's doc launches the sessions on November 5th.

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I pinged the people involved and will follow up on this. Thanks for raising this point! Edit: talking about the naming; not the dates.

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I agree with @jonatack there should be no reference to "club." I've removed it in this PR but will need @ajtowns to merge. ajtowns/taproot-review#1

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I also created a PR to add the starting date ajtowns/taproot-review#2

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and finally, a suggested renaming back to the original name ajtowns/taproot-review#3

the current proposals that might be missed by people who only read the
documentation.

The ultimate goal of the review club is to allow participants to
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idem, s/review club/taproot BIP review/

that a large number of technical reviewers examine the proposals for
possible flaws before they are implemented and before users are
asked to consider upgrading their full nodes to enforce the new
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idem about the club

asked to consider upgrading their full nodes to enforce the new
rules. Whether through the review club or
in some other way, Optech strongly encourages all technically
skilled Bitcoin users to dedicate time to reviewing the taproot set
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While discussing this review initiative with other devs because I find it an interesting idea, one recurring question from people has been the following, for which I don't have an answer and which might be helpful to address: "Why not review in the relevant repository, has this been insufficient?"

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My understanding is that Pieter Wuille considers the amount of feedback received to date to be insufficient. Since Pieter isn't organizing this effort (though I believe he'll be available to answer questions and receive feedback), it would odd to organize it through his repository. Besides, opening PRs in developer forks is really just for minor stuff; major feedback on the proposals should be emailed to the dev list.

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ultimately, any feedback should end up in the repository (as an issue or PR), or on the mailing list, or both; the idea here is this provides an excuse for people who are already comfortable with that to do it sooner rather than later, and to help people who aren't yet comfortable with it to still be able to contribute to the review.

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Thank you for your replies, @harding and @ajtowns.

Anyone wanting to participate should [RSVP][trc rsvp] soon so that the
organizers can estimate the total number of participants and start
forming study groups. To register or learn more, please see
the [Taproot Review Club][trc] repository.
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by its spender. LND
recently tried to keep this at 1,008 blocks by decreasing the CLTV
delta---the minimum number of blocks each routing node along the payment path
has to claim its particular payment---from 144 blocks to 40 blocks
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"the minimum number of blocks each routing node along the payment path has to claim its particular payment" -> I think this sentence could be clearer, in the vein of replacing "has" with a better verb or reconstructing the sentence a bit.

- [LND #3597][] reverts the migration policy described in [Newsletter
#64][lnd3485] where LND could only be upgraded from a maximum of one major
release back. The PR for the reversion notes, "the prior stricter
policy created a large burden on applications that package lnd as
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Ah yes, there was some strong blowback from application developers on that prior upgrade change.

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harding commented Oct 23, 2019

Dropped "club" from the taproot review and made some other minor edits, including adding the links.

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people through review of the proposed [bip-schnorr][],
[bip-taproot][], and [bip-tapscript][] changes. All developers,
academics, and anyone else with technical experience are welcome. The
minimum expected commitment is four hours a week for seven weeks, with
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"The expected commitment" no need for minimum?

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@bitschmidty bitschmidty force-pushed the 2019-10-23-newsletter branch from a993736 to 9f3227d Compare October 23, 2019 16:45
@bitschmidty bitschmidty merged commit 36bf677 into bitcoinops:master Oct 23, 2019
@jnewbery jnewbery added the newsletters Publishing/translating/editing newsletters label Oct 31, 2019
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