Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #359 Recap
June 24, 2025·1h 18m·w/ Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Mike Schmidt, Bryan Bishop, Robin Linus, Rene Pickhardt
Show Notes
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bryan Bishop, Robin Linus, and Rene Pickhardt to discuss Newsletter #359.
News
● Proposal to restrict access to Bitcoin Core Project discussion (1:11)
● Improvements to BitVM-style contracts (21:17)
● Channel rebalancing research (41:57)
Changes to services and client software
● Cove v1.0.0 released (1:03:58)
● Liana v11.0 released (1:04:59)
● Stratum v2 STARK proof demo (1:06:48)
● Breez SDK adds BOLT12 and BIP353 (1:08:41)
Releases and release candidates
● Core Lightning 25.05 (1:09:51)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Eclair #3110 (1:11:32)
● Eclair #3101 (1:12:41)
● LDK #3817 (1:13:35)
● LDK #3623 (1:14:04)
● BTCPay Server #6755 (1:15:11)
● Rust libsecp256k1 #798 (1:15:54)
