diff --git a/_posts/en/newsletters/2020-10-14-newsletter.md b/_posts/en/newsletters/2020-10-14-newsletter.md index 8404aea842..f2c5914a4a 100644 --- a/_posts/en/newsletters/2020-10-14-newsletter.md +++ b/_posts/en/newsletters/2020-10-14-newsletter.md @@ -201,7 +201,13 @@ FIXME [Hardware Wallet Interface (HWI)][hwi repo], [Bitcoin Improvement Proposals (BIPs)][bips repo], and [Lightning BOLTs][bolts repo].* -- [Bitcoin Core #19954][] Complete the BIP155 implementation and upgrade to TORv3 FIXME:adamjonas +- [Bitcoin Core #19954][] completes the [BIP155][] implementation, also referred + to as [addr v2][topic addr v2]. As previously covered in + [Newsletter #110][news110 addrv2], this upgrade supports TOR v3 and makes it + possible to add support for I2P and other networks with longer endpoint + addresses that do not fit in the 16 bytes/128 bits of Bitcoin’s current addr + message. TOR v2 was [deprecated][TOR v3 retirement schedule] in September + 2020 and will be obsolete in July 2021. - [Eclair #1537][] extends the `sendtoroute` API call to allow specifying a list of channel IDs for the payment with the `--shortChannelIds` flag. This @@ -233,3 +239,5 @@ FIXME:harding update topics after all PR summaries written [compare difficulty]: https://bitcoincore.reviews/18267#l-478 [signet difficulty]: https://bitcoincore.reviews/18267#l-485 [news117 signet]: /en/newsletters/2020/09/30/#bitcoin-core-18267 +[TOR v3 retirement schedule]: https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline#:~:text=retirement +[news110 addrv2]: /en/newsletters/2020/08/12/#bitcoin-core-pr-review-club diff --git a/_topics/en/addr-v2.md b/_topics/en/addr-v2.md index bc095a6b38..a56e3f7cb4 100644 --- a/_topics/en/addr-v2.md +++ b/_topics/en/addr-v2.md @@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ optech_mentions: - title: "BIPs #907 updates BIP155 messages to allow addresses up to 512 bytes" url: /en/newsletters/2020/09/30/#bips-907 + - title: "Bitcoin Core #19954 completes the BIP155 implementation and upgrades to TORv3 " + url: /en/newsletters/2020/10/14/#bitcoin-core-19954 + ## Optional. Same format as "primary_sources" above see_also: - title: P2P protocol `addr` message