Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #383 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Moonsettler and Julian to discuss Newsletter #383.

News

● Consensus bug in NBitcoin library (1:04)

Changing consensus

● LNHANCE soft fork (24:00)

● Benchmarking the varops budget (5:09)

● SLH-DSA (SPHINCS) post-quantum signature optimizations (45:29)

Releases and release candidates

● Core Lightning v25.12 (1:02:24)

● LDK 0.2 (1:03:43)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Core Lightning #8728 (1:05:14)

● Core Lightning #8702 (1:06:55)

● Core Lightning #8735 (1:07:24)

● LDK #4226 (1:11:41)

● LND #10341 (1:12:49)

● BTCPay Server #6986 (1:14:00)

● BIPs #2015 (1:16:18)