Author: Prayank 2021-12-10 15:13:02
Published on: 2021-12-10T15:13:02+00:00
In August, Prayank started a blog dedicated to Hal Finney and has been tracking more than 10 issues and pull requests from various Bitcoin projects that focus on privacy. They have written three blog posts so far and plan to write more as they learn new things. The blog includes a "Hall of Fame" section which lists seven developers who have worked on one or more pull requests to improve privacy in Bitcoin projects. These developers include Andrew Chow, chimp1984, jmacxx, Luke Dashjr, Samuel Dobson, Vasil Dimov, and wpaulino. Prayank's latest post is about the "Rebroadcast mechanism" used in Bitcoin full node implementations. They point out that the current rebroadcast mechanism used in Bitcoin Core and Knots only rebroadcasts a node's own transactions. This can allow spy nodes to link bitcoin addresses with IP addresses and determine whether wallets are enabled for a node. Amiti Uttarwar has proposed a solution for this problem by creating a new rebroadcast mechanism where transactions are rebroadcasted based on fee rate and mempool age. Prayank provides additional details and their opinion on the matter in the blog post, including links to comments by Suhas Daftuar since the related pull request has been in draft mode for some time.
Updated on: 2023-05-22T16:25:20.416568+00:00