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Next week, gloria is hosting 2 meetings covering PR #28165, "net: transport abstraction," authored by Pieter Wuille. We'll familiarize ourselves with the relevant net code in the 1st meeting, and then dive into the PR's changes in the 2nd meeting. Notes: bitcoincore.reviews/28165

Reminder: we have a meeting tomorrow at 17UTC and Thursday at 17UTC to discuss #28165!

Next week's review club PR is #28017, "Type-safe transaction identifiers", authored by Niklas Gögge and hosted by @stphnvlstk. Come learn about type safety, usage of txids and wtxids in the codebase, and TxOrphanage! bitcoincore.reviews/28107

Next week's review club PR is #28368, "Fee Estimator updates from Validation Interface/CScheduler thread", authored and hosted by Abubakar Sadiq Ismail. 1st meeting will cover concepts like asynchronous ValidationInterface callbacks; the 2nd will be code review. bitcoincore.reviews/28368

Join us this Wednesday at 17UTC to test Bitcoin Core v26.0 release candidates (and lots of exciting new features)! m3dwards has prepared a testing guide: bitcoincore.reviews/v26-rc-testing

Does time feel totally fake and arbitrary during the holidays? Bitcoin feels the same way! PR Review Club will be kicking off 2024 with #28956, "Nuke adjusted time", authored by Niklas Gögge and hosted by Stphnvlstk. See you on Jan 3rd, 17UTC on irc! bitcoincore.reviews/28956

Next week's review club PR is #28950, "Add maxfeerate and maxburnamount args to submitpackage", authored by instagibbs and hosted by Abubakar Sadiq Ismail. Come nerd out with us on IRC at 17UTC! Notes are up: bitcoincore.reviews/28950

Reminder: we are meeting tomorrow to talk about #28950! Notes and questions to help you prepare 👇

This week's review club is bitcoin-inquisition PR #39, "Re enable OP_CAT". Join us on IRC to learn about the script interpreter code, discuss the implementation approach, and review the tests together! bitcoincore.reviews/bitcoin-inquis…

Next week's review club is bitcoin-inquisition PR #45, "LNHANCE inquisition (CSFS, INTERNALKEY)", authored and hosted by Rearden🛩CTV+CSFS is consensus. Notes and questions are up: bitcoincore.reviews/bitcoin-inquis…

This week's review club is #29221, "Implement 64 bit arithmetic op codes in the Script interpreter", authored and hosted by Chris Stewart . Check out the extensive notes linked below. See you on IRC on wednesday! bitcoincore.reviews/29221

In next week's review club, we'll test a release candidate for Bitcoin Core v27.0. cbergqvist, tdb3, davidgumberg, marcofleon put together an extensive Testing Guide. Do the "Preparation" steps first, and we'll walk through the guide together next Wed! bitcoincore.reviews/v27-rc-testing

Tonight's review club PR is on #30000, "p2p: index TxOrphanage by wtxid, allow entries with same txid", authored and hosted by gloria. Notes and questions are now available on the website: bitcoincore.reviews/30000

Next week's review club PR is #30352, "Add PayToAnchor(P2A), OP 1 <0x4e73> as standard output script for spending", authored by instagibbs and hosted by gloria. bitcoincore.reviews/30352

In tomorrow's review club meeting, we'll be testing a release candidate for Bitcoin Core v28.0. Come and test some new features with us! Thank you to rkrux for creating the guide and hosting the meeting. bitcoincore.reviews/v28-rc-testing

Next week's review club PR is #30793, "add getorphantxs", authored by tdb3 and hosted by gloria. This one is designed for beginners - come learn about orphan transactions and adding new RPCs! Notes and questions are up: bitcoincore.reviews/30793

One new high level, and two medium level severity advisories have been added to bitcoincore.org/en/security-ad…

This week's review club PR is "p2p: track and use all potential peers for orphan resolution", authored + hosted by gloria. We'll discuss logic for tx download: handling missing UTXOs, avoiding censorship, and being bandwidth-efficient. Beginners welcome! bitcoincore.reviews/31397

Logs from today's meeting are up: bitcoincore.reviews/31397 We will have a second meeting tomorrow at 17 UTC, continuing review on the same PR.

This week's review club PR is #31363, "Cluster mempool: introduce TxGraph", authored by Pieter Wuille and hosted by gloria. Notes and questions are available on the website, including a gentle introduction to cluster mempool and mempool architecture: bitcoincore.reviews/31363