Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #368 Recap

Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #368.

News

● Draft BIP for block template sharing (0:30)

● Trusted delegation of script evaluation (28:07)

Changes to services and client software

● ZEUS v0.11.3 released (33:07)

● Rust Utreexo resources (33:25)

● Peer-observer tooling and call to action (34:11)

● Bitcoin Core Kernel-based node announced (37:22)

● SimplicityHL released (38:23)

● LSP plugin for BTCPay Server (39:17)

● Proto mining hardware and software announced (39:42)

● Oracle resolution demo using CSFS (40:46)

● Relai adds taproot support (41:11)

Releases and release candidates

● LND v0.19.3-beta (43:09)

● Bitcoin Core 29.1rc1 (43:29)

● Core Lightning v25.09rc2 (43:55)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #32896 (44:33)

● Bitcoin Core #33106 (46:57)

● Core Lightning #8467 (1:02:49)

● Core Lightning #8354 (1:03:26)

● Eclair #3103 (1:04:07)

● Eclair #3134 (1:04:43)

● LDK #3897 (1:05:56)