Newsletter #21: edits

Author: harding

_posts/en/newsletters/2018-11-13-newsletter.md

@@ -36,16 +36,6 @@ None this week.
       technical challenges that discussion participants attempt to solve
       both in this thread and in a [related thread][zmn liquidity].
 
-    - **Walletless channel opens:** pseudonymous contributor ZmnSCPxj
-      [notes][walletless opens] that if [BIP118][]
-      SIGHASH_NOINPUT_UNSAFE were adopted to allow implementing the
-      [Eltoo protocol][] in LN, then an LN implementation could set up a
-      channel with a peer offchain and simply provide a regular Bitcoin
-      wallet with an address to pay in order to open the channel.  The
-      LN implementation could then handle all of the secure offchain
-      payments and ensure that the channel closing balance is sent to
-      one of the regular wallet's addresses.
-
     - **Making path probing more convenient:** Anthony Towns
       [proposes][probe cancel] a method for allowing all the nodes along
       a path to forget about a small-value payment if one of the nodes
@@ -60,19 +50,19 @@ None this week.
   functions that don't require access to the internal state of the node
   or wallet.  During last week's developer IRC [meeting][core dev
   meeting], members of the project reaffirmed their commitment to not
-  providing any new utility functions under normal circumstances in
-  order to allow development to focus on the project's main objectives.
+  provide any new utility functions for things that can just as easily
+  be done outside Bitcoin Core and that are unrelated to normal user
+  workflows.  This will help keep the project focused on its main
+  objectives.
 
     This does provide a nice opportunity for an independent developer or
     other third-party to create a separate project for a library, local
     program, or RPC interface that provides a stable interface to
     utility functions that work well in conjunction with Bitcoin Core,
     and which perhaps even provides some of the utility functions that
-    Bitcoin Core already supports---giving the Bitcoin Core project the
-    ability to gracefully deprecate those options and recommend the new
-    tool to users needing those functions.  Some ideas for how to
-    implement such a tool were discussed both during and [after][core
-    dev log] the meeting.
+    Bitcoin Core already supports for users not running a node.  Some
+    ideas for how to implement such a tool were discussed both during
+    and [after][core dev log] the meeting.
 
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