🤔 pablomartin4btc reviewed a pull request: "wallet: reduce unconditional logging during load"
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33299#pullrequestreview-3192852043)
Concept ACK

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<summary>I've managed to reproduce the issue (but I only see the default wallet twice as any named wallets), wallets have to be loaded on startup to verify this problem.</summary>

```
2025-09-06T04:01:48Z init message: Verifying wallet(s)…
2025-09-06T04:01:48Z Using SQLite Version 3.37.2
2025-09-06T04:01:48Z Using wallet /tmp/btc/regtest/wallets
2025-09-06T04:01:48Z Using /16 prefix for IP bucketing
...
2025-09-06T04:01:48Z Using SQLite Version 3.37.2
2025-09-
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🤔 hebasto reviewed a pull request: "Avoid pathological QT text/markdown behavior..."
(https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui/pull/886#pullrequestreview-3192857549)
Tested 5cb39181019dd1d132da9e87e88921e477facbae using static builds (Qt 6.7.3) and shared builds on Ubuntu 24.04 (Qt 6.4.2).

The patch indeed fixes the pathological memory usage. However, it modifies the clipboard content. The copy-pasted prompt appears as follow:
- on the master branch:
```
Welcome to the Bitcoin Core RPC console.
Use up and down arrows to navigate history, and Ctrl+L to clear screen.
Use Ctrl++ and Ctrl+- to increase or decrease the font size.
Type help for an overvie
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💬 hebasto commented on issue "GUI (?): Copying output from console causes large mem usage/OOM":
(https://github.com/bitcoin-core/gui/issues/887#issuecomment-3262271803)
I can confirm this issue on Ubuntu 24.04 with the system's Qt 6.4.2.

However, a static build using Qt 6.7.3 from depends works perfectly. Perhaps this Qt issue was resolved upstream at some point?

💬 kevkevinpal commented on pull request "ci: Checkout latest merged pulls":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33303#discussion_r2328187637)
What's the reason for running the CI on the default branch (master) when we push to any branch on the repo?

I think it makes sense to set the ref to the PR or the branch?

📝 Raimo33 opened a pull request: "crypto: optimize SipHash Write() method with chunked processing"
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33325)
## Summary

The current [Write()](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/src/crypto/siphash.cpp#L48) implementation of Siphash uses a byte-by-byte approach to iterate the span. This resulted in significant overhead
for large inputs due to repeated bounds checking and span manipulations, without any help from the compiler.

This PR aims at optimizing Siphash by replacing byte-by-byte processing in CSipHasher::Write() with an optimized
chunked approach that processes data in 8-byte a
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💬 kevkevinpal commented on pull request "ci: reduce runner sizes on various jobs":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33319#issuecomment-3263065907)
ACK [5eeb2fa](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33319/commits/5eeb2facbbbbf68a2c30ef9e6747e39c85d7b116)

Looks good to me, makes sense to me to use smaller runners.
All the checks passed on this PR and the longest running one only too 44 minutes

is there any reason to keep `CentOS, depends, gui` and `MSan, depends` on a `lg` runner?

⚠️ HTM31-cyber opened an issue: "htm.sheng@gmail.com"
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/33326)

💬 l0rinc commented on pull request "crypto: optimize SipHash Write() method with chunked processing":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33325#issuecomment-3263170325)
This seems like a good idea to me, I will review this in more detail soon.

To set your expectations, these fundamental changes can take a long time to review - and we need very good reasons to risk introducing a potential error and making the code more complicated for a speedup that the users might never notice.

I like that you're explaining it in a lot of detail in the commit message, it's not a trivial change! We may be able to use more C++20 alignment-specific methods there (e.g. like t
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✅ willcl-ark closed an issue: "htm.sheng@gmail.com"
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/33326)

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(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/33327)
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✅ pinheadmz closed an issue: "I am sharing 'OKX_1753235667059' with you"
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/33327)

💬 hebasto commented on pull request "Fix compatibility with `-debuglogfile` command-line option":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33215#discussion_r2328354097)
Thanks! Fixed.

💬 hebasto commented on pull request "Fix compatibility with `-debuglogfile` command-line option":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33215#discussion_r2328354145)
Thanks! Fixed.

💬 Raimo33 commented on pull request "refactor: unify container presence checks (without PR conflicts)":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33192#issuecomment-3263190690)
ACK f70d2c7faa8f7d724e146e4c409de9c6778b7299

This is a no brainer for me. It makes code easier to read and therefore mantain. Also, as already mentioned, for multisets and multimaps, `::contains` will avoid extra iterations with early exits.
The changes are relatively trivial so very little surface for subtle errors.

📝 iajhff opened a pull request: "Mapping for Lockedpool"
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33328)
support: Optimize LockedPool::free with O(log n) arena lookup

Replace O(n) linear search with O(log n) map-based lookup using
arena base addresses. Improves performance for frequent
allocation/deallocation patterns in wallet operations.

💬 l0rinc commented on issue "-loadblock doesn't work":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/33280#issuecomment-3263193876)
I'm not sure I can follow what versions you're using in the examples and what you're trying to achieve high level - could you please update the title and issue description and start with the zoomed out problem definition for what you're trying to achieve and what you tried and what versions you have used for which operation etc?

💬 Raimo33 commented on pull request "crypto: optimize SipHash Write() method with chunked processing":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33325#issuecomment-3263344271)
I just realized somebody had my same idea on knots28. But in the latest version it got reset to match Core's implementation. 🤔.
https://github.com/Raimo33/bitcoinknots/commit/8463aef09fe4c6e3806e3b8a4c967c297302b96f

💬 Raimo33 commented on pull request "crypto: optimize SipHash Write() method with chunked processing":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/33325#issuecomment-3263377003)
> We may be able to use more C++20 alignment-specific methods there (e.g. like the `std::assume_aligned` we used in

I tried with
```diff
- uint64_t chunk;
- std::memcpy(&chunk, ptr, 8);
+ auto aligned_ptr = std::assume_aligned<8>(ptr);
+ uint64_t chunk = *reinterpret_cast<const uint64_t *>(aligned_ptr);
```
but no luck. performance is identical. `memcpy` is extremely optimized.

💬 systemic-threat commented on pull request "policy: uncap datacarrier by default":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32406#issuecomment-3263510323)
Concept NACK

I've educated myself on the issue.

💬 stwenhao commented on issue "Potential systemic risk: OP_RETURN outputs as unintended governance signaling":
(https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues/33323#issuecomment-3263529896)
The same things can be done without OP_RETURN. Even if you have P2PK-only, old, plain, ECDSA signatures, then still: they can commit to arbitrary data, through their R-values.

> Each UTXO could embed a short marker in its OP_RETURN.

Not only in OP_RETURN. Since miners started accepting out-of-band transactions, then different transaction versions can be used to signal things, just like they are used during soft-forks, to check, how many miners are ready to support some BIP.

> These markers co
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