Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #304 Recap

Bitcoin Optech Podcast

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)