Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #304 Recap
May 27, 2024·1h 23m·w/ Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Mike Schmidt, Andrew Toth, Antoine Poinsot, Tony Klausing
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Show Notes
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andrew Toth, Antoine Poinsot, and Tony Klausing to discuss Newsletter #304.
News
- Upgrading existing LN channels (1:27)
- Challenges in rewarding pool miners (6:58)
- Spending previously received SP outputs (12:40)
- Proposed miniscript BIP (21:32)
- Channel value pegging (31:42)
Changes to services and client software
- Silent payment resources (43:50)
- Cake Wallet adds silent payments (46:14)
- Coordinator-less coinjoin PoC (46:26)
- OCEAN adds BOLT12 support (47:10)
- Coinbase adds Lightning support (48:57)
- Bitcoin escrow tooling announced (49:20)
- Block's call for mining community feedback (49:48)
- Sentrum wallet tracker released (50:34)
- Stack Wallet adds FROST support (51:19)
- Transaction broadcast tool announced (53:41)
Releases and release candidates
- Bitcoin Inquisition 27.0 (56:30)
- LND v0.18.0-beta.rc2 (1:00:10)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #27101 (1:00:30)
- Bitcoin Core #30000 (1:01:27)
- Bitcoin Core #28233 (1:02:42)
- Core Lightning #7304 (1:09:41)
- Core Lightning #7063 (1:10:18)
- Rust Bitcoin #2740 (1:17:54)
