SN Saturday Newsletter 1/17/26 \ stacker news

Happy Sat-urday Stackers,

Have a great weekend!

Private broadcast of local transactins merged
- @vd's Bitcoin Core PR for broadcasting transactions using a one-off peer connection was merged.
- 22.1k sats \ 8 comments \ @vd
[Article Review] A Mathematical Theory of Payment Channel Networks
- @SimpleStacker summarizes some of the findings of Rene Pickhardt's mathematical model of payment channel networks.
- 18.4k sats \ 18 comments \ @SimpleStacker
Caddy Days
- @siggy47 shares stories from his time as a golf caddy in 1970s New York.
- 15.9k sats \ 20 comments \ @siggy47
Tether Fun Unelievable Details - Part IV
- In part IV, @Scoresby lists details of Tether's activities around the rise and fall of FTX and Celcius.
- 13.2k sats \ 512 boost \ 26 comments \ @Scoresby
The asymmetric advantage of a BIP-110 fork
- BIP-110 proponents claim that a soft fork doesn't need a majority of hashrate so long as it gets ... a majority of hashrate. The minority chain, they hope, could get lucky long enough and consistently enough that they reorg the majority chain enough times that the majority capitulates. Unless, of course, the majority doesn't capitulate.
- 12.1k sats \ 102 boost \ 81 comments \ @Scoresby