Add newsletter #6 (2018-07-31) by harding · Pull Request #47 · bitcoinops/bitcoinops.github.io

harding · 2018-07-28T18:55:53Z

Based on #28 to include text of AJ Town's article.

Todos:

This assumes Bitcoin Core 0.16.2 will be released and links to the URL where its release notes should appear on BitcoinCore.org. I think that's likely, but if it doesn't happen, this will need to be updated
This guesses that there might be a fee spike on Monday due to the retarget tomorrow. This might need some revision. I felt like a weather forecaster writing that paragraph.

Some notes:

It was a slow news week, so instead of the little blurb about Bitcoin StackExchange that's been mentioned, I decided to link to some of its top questions and answers for the last month.
- One of the answers is mine. Obviously, y'all should scrutinize that extra hard and remove it if you think it's inappropriate.
I changed the "Notable Bitcoin Core merges" section to "Notable commits" and trawled lnd and C-lightning for stuff. I think this solves the problem of looking too focused on Bitcoin Core.
- You'll note there's no merges linked for C-lightning. That's because they apparently don't believe in merges---they appear to use rebases to create a completely linear commit history, and they don't link issues or PR numbers anywhere in their commit log, so I have no idea where their stuff is discussed and reviewed. (/me puts on his Technical Writers Union hat and mumbles something about developers being crazy)

jnewbery

Excellent work as always!

I've pushed a fixup commit with a couple of small changes. If I don't hear any complaints about those changes, I'll squash and merge to master tomorrow morning.

jnewbery · 2018-07-30T17:19:54Z

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+{% assign rpc_prefix = "https://bitcoincore.org/en/doc/0.16.1" %}
+[rpc fundrawtransaction]: {{rpc_prefix}}/rpc/rawtransactions/fundrawtransaction/
+[rpc abandontransaction]: {{rpc_prefix}}/rpc/rawtransactions/fundrawtransaction/


Link should be /rpc/wallet/abandontransaction/

jnewbery · 2018-07-30T17:30:23Z

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+## Dashboard items
+
+- **Fees still low:** hash rate increased difficulty by more than 10%


It was eventually 14.88% 😮

jnewbery · 2018-07-30T17:42:21Z

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+- [If you can use almost any opcode in P2SH, why can't you use them in
+  scriptPubKeys?][bse 76541]: in this answer, Bitcoin technical writer
+  David A. Harding explains why early versions of Bitcoin restricted the


jnewbery · 2018-07-30T17:43:08Z

+contributors look for answers to their questions---or when we have a
+few spare moments of time to help answer other people's questions.  In
+this new monthly feature, we highlight some of the top voted questions
+and answers made there in the past month.*


I love this! 💯

jnewbery · 2018-07-30T17:46:56Z

+  minutes, there's the possibility for a rapid increase estimated
+  transaction fees.  We recommend being careful sending large low-fee
+  transactions such as consolidations until closer to the weekend when
+  transaction volume begins to taper off again.


This is really good. I think the phrasing can be tweaked slightly to make it read better. I'll try to do that in a fixup commit.

jnewbery · 2018-07-30T17:47:26Z

+
+## Action items
+
+{% comment %}<!-- TODO: replace with something else if 0.16.2 not released -->{% endcomment %}


It was released! I'll remove this in a fixup commit.

jnewbery · 2018-07-30T17:58:57Z

It was a slow news week, so instead of the little blurb about Bitcoin StackExchange that's been mentioned, I decided to link to some of its top questions and answers for the last month.

I love this new feature!

You'll note there's no merges linked for C-lightning. That's because they apparently don't believe in merges [...] and they don't link issues or PR numbers anywhere in their commit log

weird!

Original material by AJ Towns. Additional content by David Harding and John Newbery.

Except for a couple extra invisible newline in the HTML source, renders identically to before. This will allow us to keep the article text synchronised with the text in the newsletter. - Moves text of article to _includes/ - Adds copyright statement to top, at least until we get permission to MIT license - Defines a variable that allows changing the subhead depth - Includes that file in the previous file

jnewbery · 2018-07-30T19:11:31Z

Rebased on top of update #28

harding · 2018-07-31T10:17:03Z

ACK f812751

Thanks @jnewbery for catching that copy/paste error, and I really like your improvement to the dashboard item.

Material by David Harding. Minor fixups by John Newbery.

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Original material by AJ Towns. Additional content by David Harding and John Newbery.

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Xapo consolidation #28

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Material by David Harding. Minor fixups by John Newbery.

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		- Fees still low: hash rate increased difficulty by more than 10%


		## Action items

		{% comment %}<!-- TODO: replace with something else if 0.16.2 not released -->{% endcomment %}

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