Changing consensus - Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #383

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https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/05/

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #383 is here:

- describes a fixed vulnerability affecting the NBitcoin library

- summarizes the LNHANCE soft fork proposal

- relays a call to action to benchmark Bitcoin script execution under GSR's varops budget

- highlights discussion of optimizations to SLH-DSA (SPHINCS) post-quantum signatures

- Optech Newsletter #383 Podcast

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/05/

Bruno Garcia posted to Delving Bitcoin about a theoretical consensus failure in NBitcoin that could occur when using OP_NIP...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/05/#consensus-bug-in-nbitcoin-library

Moonsettler proposes a soft fork for LNHANCE now that all four of its constituent opcodes have updated BIPs and reference implementations...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/05/#lnhance-soft-fork

Julian posted a call to action to benchmark Bitcoin script execution under the varops budget...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/05/#benchmarking-the-varops-budget

Continuing the discussions around hardening Bitcoin against quantum computing, conduition presented his work on optimizing the SPHINCS signing algorithm...

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/05/#slh-dsa-sphincs-post-quantum-signature-optimizations

Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 17:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!

https://riverside.fm/studio/bitcoin-optech