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ChainCatcher news, according to Politico, the U.S. government shutdown has lasted for nearly a month, and now the situation finally seems to be shifting. An imminent key deadline, combined with external pressure, is adding new urgency to the bipartisan talks that have stalled for weeks. Senate Majority Leader John Thune, along with his Senate allies, House Speaker Mike Johnson, and other House Republican leaders, appear increasingly convinced that more and more centrist Democrats are ready to compromise on a temporary funding bill to mitigate the impact of the shutdown, possibly as early as next week. Republican leaders are discussing a new temporary funding bill, with dozens of options already on the table, including providing temporary government funding until around January 21 or even as late as March.

ChainCatcher reported that Luke Dashjr, the Bitcoin Core developer known for his anti-ordinal stance, believes that the probability of BIP 444 succeeding is very high, although there may be some confusion in the early stages. He stated that opponents would need to perform a reverse fork and split the chain to reject it, and it is unlikely that many people would do such a drastic thing. In addition, Luke Dashjr said that claims such as freezing someone's BTC are just FUD about BIP 444, and there is no reason to believe that real coins would be affected. Mempool developer mononaut, however, expressed opposition and listed examples where some real coins could be frozen by BIP 444, such as certain simple financial use cases using OP_IF in Tapscript.