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Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #418
Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #418 covers a proposal to mitigate Lightning Network channel jamming via conditional message transfer contracts, the availability of static Bitcoin Core binaries for Linux, and a shift to global transaction rate-limiting in Bitcoin Core to prevent DoS attacks. It also reports a critical security vulnerability in BTCPay Server affecting LND nodes, which has been patched in version 2.4.2.
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Why It Matters
The BTCPay Server vulnerability led to actual theft of funds, while the Bitcoin Core and Lightning Network updates aim to improve network stability, security, and resilience against denial-of-service attacks.