Show Notes
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Conduition and Jeremy Rubin to discuss Newsletter #412.
Changing consensus
● Benchmarking SLH-DSA STARK aggregation (1:05)
● Bird of Prey 2 (BoP-2) non-malleable schnorr and PQ signatures (10:21)
● Lattice-based signatures (19:41)
● Public key recovery for P2MR EC leaves (25:50)
● Aligning privacy incentives in P2MR (30:48)
● Prohibit merkle internal node preimages that encode minimal 64-byte transactions (49:38)
● Triggering EC disabling with a NUMS point spend or hashrate majority (37:36)
Releases and release candidates
● Bitcoin Core 31.1rc1 (1:32:43)
● Bitcoin Core 30.3rc1 (1:32:48)
● Bitcoin Core 29.4rc1 (1:32:52)
● Core Lightning v26.06.2 (1:36:01)
● LND v0.20.2-beta.rc1 (1:36:39)
● LND v0.21.1-beta (1:38:10)
● LDK v0.2.4 (1:38:57)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #35266 (1:40:00)
● Bitcoin Core #35550 (1:41:10)
● Bitcoin Core #35610 (1:42:15)
● BIPs #2196 (1:43:52)
● BIPs #2165 (1:47:46)
● BIPs #2201 (1:50:13)
● LND #10900 (1:51:20)
● LND #10927 (1:52:37)
● LDK #4748 (1:54:13)