Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #366 Recap

Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Gloria Zhao and Mike Schmidt are joined by Tadge Dryja and Anthony Towns to discuss ⁠Newsletter #366⁠.

News

● Draft BIPs proposed for Utreexo (1:03)

● Continued discussion about lowering the minimum relay feerate (23:43)

● Peer block template sharing to mitigate problems with divergent mempool policies (52:27)

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club

● Add exportwatchonlywallet RPC to export a watchonly version of a wallet (1:11:41)

Optech recommends (1:15:50)

Releases and release candidates

● LND v0.19.3-beta.rc1 (1:17:04)

● BTCPay Server 2.2.0 (1:17:44)

● Bitcoin Core 29.1rc1 (1:18:13)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #32941 (1:21:11)

● Bitcoin Core #31385 (1:24:06)

● Bitcoin Core #31244 (1:26:38)

● Bitcoin Core #30635 (1:29:54)

● Bitcoin Core #28944 (1:32:29)

● Eclair #3133 (1:35:08)

● LND #10097 (1:36:23)

● LND #9625 (1:38:12)

● Rust Bitcoin #4730 (1:38:43)

● BLIPs #55 (1:40:57)

Correction (1:42:03)