2024.3.4 - 2024.3.10

If there are omissions or errors, corrections are welcome. Thank you very much!

2024.3.9

Advancing Bitcoin posted that Super Testnet @super_testnet the contributor to BitVM will give a hands-on workshop on "Learn BitVM by Building Tic Tac Toe" at The Advancing Bitcoin Conference @advbitcoin next week 14th March.

2024.3.6

On March 6, 2024, Robin Linus @robin_linus tweeted that Dan Boneh @danboneh introduced Winternitz signatures as a more compact alternative to Lamport signatures (also known as bit commitment). This reduces the bit commitment size by 50%, enabling a reduction of at least 50% in transaction fees for BitVM. For the relevant code implementation, refer to: https://github.com/BitVM/bitvm-js/blob/main/run/examples/winternitz.js. The theoretical knowledge of Winternitz signatures can be found in Section 14.3 of Dan Boneh's book at https://toc.cryptobook.us/book.pdf.