Bitcoin is set to receive a major security upgrade with the integration of the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) 324. This proposal will help protect the Bitcoin network from man-in-the-middle attacks and increase user privacy. It will also introduce a new handshake protocol, DoS prevention measures, and forward-secrecy. Notable figures in the Bitcoin arena have expressed their enthusiastic support for the proposal.BIP324 will introduce a pseudorandom byte string to replace the current “magic bytes” string, which is used to initiate Bitcoin node communications. This will help protect node metadata from external surveillance and potential censorship. River, a BTC services platform, has highlighted the importance of this upgrade in protecting the network from malicious entities.Jameson Lopp, co-founder of Casa, has highlighted the advantage of BIP324 in protecting the network from man-in-the-middle attacks. Pieter Wuille, the developer behind the BIP324 pull request, has emphasized the proposal’s foundational nature and its potential to increase the expenses linked to widespread monitoring.At the time of writing, Bitcoin was trading at a value of $27,698.

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Information	Details
Geography	Global
Countries
Sentiment	positive
Relevance Score	8
People	Jameson Lopp, Pieter Wuille, River
Companies	Casa, GitHub, River, Bitcoin Core, eToro
Currencies	Ethereum, Bitcoin
Securities	None