Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #312 Recap

Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick and Pieter Wuille to discuss ⁠Newsletter #312⁠.

News

• Distributed key generation protocol for FROST (1:37)
• Introduction to cluster linearization (28:45)

Changes to services and client software

• ZEUS adds BOLT12 offers and BIP353 support (56:15)
• Phoenix adds BOLT12 offers and BIP353 support (57:02)
• Stack Wallet adds RBF and CPFP support (57:42)
• BlueWallet adds silent payment send support (57:59)
• BOLT12 Playground announced (59:10)
• Moosig testing repository announced (59:56)
• Real-time Stratum visualization tool released (1:01:01)
• BMM 100 Mini Miner announced (1:01:57)
• Coldcard publishes URL-based transaction broadcast specification (1:02:32)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #26596 (1:09:38)
• Core Lightning #7455 (1:11:27)
• Eclair #2878 (1:11:58)
• Rust Bitcoin #2646 (1:13:03)
• BDK #1489 (1:13:55)
• BIPs #1599 (1:15:22)
• BOLTs #1173 (1:17:50)
• BLIPs #25 (1:18:50)