Skip to content

Commit 95db286

Browse files
adamjonasbitschmidty
authored andcommitted
News119: add bitcoin core 19954
1 parent 586eddd commit 95db286

File tree

2 files changed

+12
-1
lines changed

2 files changed

+12
-1
lines changed

_posts/en/newsletters/2020-10-14-newsletter.md

Lines changed: 9 additions & 1 deletion
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -204,7 +204,13 @@ release candidates.*
204204
[Hardware Wallet Interface (HWI)][hwi repo], [Bitcoin Improvement Proposals
205205
(BIPs)][bips repo], and [Lightning BOLTs][bolts repo].*
206206

207-
- [Bitcoin Core #19954][] Complete the BIP155 implementation and upgrade to TORv3 FIXME:adamjonas
207+
- [Bitcoin Core #19954][] completes the [BIP155][] implementation, also referred
208+
to as [addr v2][topic addr v2]. As previously covered in
209+
[Newsletter #110][news110 addrv2], this upgrade supports Tor v3 and makes it
210+
possible to add support for I2P and other networks with longer endpoint
211+
addresses that do not fit in the 16 bytes/128 bits of Bitcoin’s current addr
212+
message. Tor v2 was [deprecated][tor v3 retirement schedule] in September
213+
2020 and will be obsolete in July 2021.
208214

209215
- [Eclair #1537][] extends the `sendtoroute` API call to allow specifying a
210216
list of channel IDs for the payment with the `--shortChannelIds` flag. This
@@ -237,3 +243,5 @@ release candidates.*
237243
[signet difficulty]: https://bitcoincore.reviews/18267#l-485
238244
[news117 signet]: /en/newsletters/2020/09/30/#bitcoin-core-18267
239245
[nbits]: https://btcinformation.org/en/developer-reference#target-nbits
246+
[tor v3 retirement schedule]: https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline#:~:text=retirement
247+
[news110 addrv2]: /en/newsletters/2020/08/12/#bitcoin-core-pr-review-club

_topics/en/addr-v2.md

Lines changed: 3 additions & 0 deletions
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ optech_mentions:
5454
- title: "BIPs #907 updates BIP155 messages to allow addresses up to 512 bytes"
5555
url: /en/newsletters/2020/09/30/#bips-907
5656

57+
- title: "Bitcoin Core #19954 implements BIP155 and Tor v3 support"
58+
url: /en/newsletters/2020/10/14/#bitcoin-core-19954
59+
5760
## Optional. Same format as "primary_sources" above
5861
see_also:
5962
- title: P2P protocol `addr` message

0 commit comments

Comments
 (0)