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Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ahmet Kurt and Jan B to discuss Newsletter #424.

News

● Proposal for a post-quantum Lightning Network (1:10)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

● What would be a drawback if sum instead of SHA256 of amounts was used in the taproot signature message? (36:18)

● Post-BIP110 fork is it necessary to resync from block 0? (39:32)

● Can a Bitcoin node build a partial UTXO set from only the most recent blocks and use it to validate new transactions? (42:16)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 32.0rc2 (21:13)

● Core Lightning 26.06.8 (45:36)

● LDK v0.3-rc2 (47:15)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #34566 (51:31)

● BIPs #1951 (54:14)

● BIPs #2224 (57:45)

● Core Lightning #9507 (1:02:00)

● Core Lightning #9508 (1:07:35)

● Core Lightning #9509 (1:12:02)

● Core Lightning #9510 (1:16:03)

● Core Lightning #9513 (1:20:01)

● LND #11198 (1:21:47)

● LND #11146 (1:24:15)

● LND #11132 (1:27:20)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Davidson Souza, Eric Price, and PortlandHODL to discuss ⁠Newsletter #423⁠.

News

● Vardiff controllers that strand slowing miners (23:06)

● Improvements in Utreexo initial block download (1:18)

● New BIP draft for unspendable internal keys (1:17:51)

Changes to services and client software

● BitBoxApp adds Spark-based Lightning payments (1:24:09)

● Covenants.diy script editor (1:28:40)

● EntropyLab offline key calculator (59:46)

Releases and release candidates

● Eclair 0.14.3 (1:31:10)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #35445 (1:33:34)

● Bitcoin Core #36076 (1:38:51)

● Bitcoin Core #36150 (1:42:18)

● Bitcoin Core #36174 (1:44:37)

● Bitcoin Core #34743 (1:46:13)

● Bitcoin Core #36081 (1:48:07)

● Bitcoin Core #35975 (1:48:59)

● BIPs #2241 (1:50:04)

● BIPs #2258 (1:53:09)

● Eclair #3380 (1:56:33)

● Eclair #3376 (1:57:37)

● Eclair #3372 (2:04:34)

● LND #11163 (2:05:57)

● BDK #2246 (2:07:44)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Adam Gibson and Rob Segers to discuss Newsletter #422.

News

● A protocol for probabilistic coinjoin and covert betting (1:14)

● Update on silent payments light clients (43:26)

Releases and release candidates

● LDK v0.3-rc1 (1:04:06)

● LDK v0.2.6 (1:05:58)

● BTCPay Server 2.4.4 (1:07:44)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #35949 (1:13:04)

● Bitcoin Core #34931 (1:15:11)

● Bitcoin Core #36048 (1:18:14)

● Bitcoin Core #36123 (1:21:12)

● Bitcoin Core #36176 (1:22:32)

● Core Lightning #9434 (1:24:49)

● LND #11061 (1:26:29)

● LND #11125 (1:27:23)

● LND #11064 (1:28:33)

● BTCPay Server #7561 (1:29:31)

● BTCPay Server #7559 (1:31:03)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by average_gary, Erick Cestari, Conduition, and Greg Sanders to discuss Newsletter #421.

News

● Using silent payments for miner payouts in coinbase transaction (2:19)

● Responsible disclosure of a denial-of-service vulnerability in CLN (27:42)

Changing consensus

● Continued discussion of PQC output types (54:03)

● DropKick commit/reveal PQC rescue (1:14:08)

● SHRINCS draft BIP (1:35:48)

● BIP448 and CSFS/CTV demos and applications (37:55)

Releases and release candidates

● Core Lightning 26.06.7 (1:51:35)

● LND v0.21.3-beta (1:55:32)

● LND v0.20.4-beta (1:55:37)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #36111 (1:58:21)

● Bitcoin Core #36032 (2:01:17)

● Core Lightning #9435 (2:04:52)

● Eclair #3368 (2:08:10)

● Eclair #3366 (2:10:54)

● LND #11090 (2:14:55)

● LND #11140 (2:20:33)

● HWI #792 (2:23:55)

● BDK #2262 (2:25:48)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Níckolas Goline, Optout, Abubakar Sadiq Ismail, and Moonsettler to discuss Newsletter #420.

Action items

● Prepare for an upcoming Core Lightning security release (1:46)

News

● Discussion on universal opt-in replay protection (53:54)

● HWI repository to enter maintenance mode (1:24:05)

● Request for comments on using block-range filters (19:06)

Releases and release candidates

● BTCPay Server 2.4.3 (1:28:31)

● Eclair 0.14.2 (1:29:09)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #34075 (31:21)

● Bitcoin Core #35730 (1:32:02)

● Bitcoin Core #35580 (1:34:03)

● Bitcoin Core #35665 (1:38:36)

● Bitcoin Core #35933 (1:43:02)

● Core Lightning #9374 (1:45:58)

● Eclair #3342 (1:47:15)

● Eclair #3321 (1:48:55)

● LND #11008 (1:50:44)

● HWI #841 (1:52:09)

● HWI #849 (1:53:48)

● Rust Bitcoin #6755 (1:55:12)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier, Salvatore Ingala, and spacebear to discuss Newsletter #419.

News

● Reorg vulnerability in LND channel closes (1:13)

● Draft BIP for `rawtr()` output script descriptor (1:14:36)

Changes to services and client software

● Payjoin Dev Kit (rust-payjoin) 1.0.0 released (55:33)

● Silent Payments sender plugin for Electrum (1:21:41)

● Superscalar implementation announced (1:22:34)

● Cofund multisig wallet announced (1:24:57)

● Lexe adds human-readable addresses and LNURL-withdraw (1:25:55)

● Ledger Bitcoin app 2.5.0 adds human-readable policy descriptions (37:17)

● Bark 0.5.0 released (1:27:34)

● Bitcoin-PIR for private UTXO queries (1:28:16)

● OP_TEMPLATEHASH Ark demonstration (1:29:44)

● libshrincs formally verified hash-based signatures (1:34:00)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #32784 (1:38:08)

● Bitcoin Core #35797 (1:40:45)

● Bitcoin Core #35531 (1:44:14)

● Bitcoin Core #35889 (1:48:44)

● Bitcoin Core #35605 (1:51:06)

● Eclair #3352 (12:15)

● Eclair #3351 (20:31)

● Eclair #3345 (23:16)

● LND #8754 (1:54:23)

● LND #11065 (1:55:47)

● HWI #842 (1:57:04)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Michael Ford (fanquake) and Martin Zumsande to discuss ⁠Newsletter #418⁠.

News

● Message transfer failure (33:07)

● Static Bitcoin Core binaries available for testing (1:19)

● Replacing per-peer transaction rate-limiting with global rate limits (18:44)

Releases and release candidates

● BTCPay Server 2.4.2 (43:16)

● LND v0.21.2-beta (45:45)

● LND v0.20.3-beta (45:45)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #35493 (48:10)

● Core Lightning #9150 (50:57)

● BIPs #2248 (54:13)

● BIPs #2225 (56:07)

● Eclair #3346 (58:50)

● Eclair #3341 (1:02:22)

● LND #11019 (1:05:18)

● LND #11023 (1:09:03)

● Libsecp256k1 #1904 (1:11:49)

● HWI #839 (1:13:58)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Conduition, Ram, and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #417.

News

● Draft BIP for stale tip relay (29:26)

Changing consensus

● CISA for taproot keypath spends (BIP460) (40:38)

● Segwit commitment to post-quantum witness data (57:51)

● PQC output type discussion (1:45)

● Input-triggered transaction expiry (1:03:36)

● Layered quantum recovery of hashed addresses (21:53)

● Segregated Data (SegData) BIP draft (1:08:33)

Releases and release candidates

● Libsecp256k1 0.8.0 (1:15:24)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #35501 (1:18:10)

● Core Lightning #9298 (1:22:47)

● Core Lightning #9353 (1:25:02)

● Eclair #3336 (1:26:15)

● LND #10942 (1:27:53)

● LND #10992 (1:29:35)

● Rust Bitcoin #6364 (1:31:55)

● Rust Bitcoin #6642 (1:33:22)

● BTCPay Server #7491 (1:36:52)

● BTCPay Server #7488 (1:38:35)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Rob Hamilton, PortlandHODL, Chandra Pratap, and fabohax to discuss Newsletter #416.

Action items

● Move funds secured by COLDCARD-generated keys (1:07)

News

● Wallets generated by COLDCARD at risk of theft (2:18)

● Disclosure of two DoS vulnerabilities in Core Lightning (36:26)

● Proof of concept for a zero-knowledge proof of reserves (49:54)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

● What is Bitcoin's objective definition of transaction neutrality? (1:03:07)

● Why does BIP110's decentralization benefit not outweigh its impact on transaction neutrality? (1:05:17)

● Why does BIP110 require a 55% signaling threshold if its nodes reject non-signaling blocks? (1:09:46)

● Why use ElligatorSwift encoding in BIP324? (1:17:12)

● Was the OP_SUCCESSx reservation in BIP342 designed with specific opcode families in mind? (1:25:36)

● What is the difference between the long-term feerate and the discard feerate? (1:29:14)

● What is the quickest method for migrating a legacy wallet to a descriptor wallet on a pruned node? (1:32:40)

● Is there historical data on orphan/stale block rates during high-fee periods? (1:36:09)

Releases and release candidates

● BTCPay Server 2.4.1 (1:41:25)

● Eclair 0.14.1 (1:42:14)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #34628 (1:44:26)

● Bitcoin Core #28463 (1:49:49)

● Bitcoin Core #32800 (1:54:18)

● Bitcoin Core #34683 (1:56:54)

● Bitcoin Core #33014 (1:58:09)

● Eclair #3325 (1:59:31)

● BOLTs #1346 (2:00:57)

● BOLTs #1344 (2:01:01)

● BOLTs #1343 (2:04:14)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Fabian Jahr, Kruw, and Mojo to discuss ⁠Newsletter #415⁠.

News

● Draft BIP for full aggregation of BIP340 signatures (1:32)

Changes to services and client software

● Wasabi Wallet 2.8.0 released (33:11)

● Coinswap v0.2.2 released (46:08)

● Go secp256k1 library announced (1:08:38)

● ASMap dashboard announced (21:06)

● Wavelength alpha released (1:10:01)

Releases and release candidates

● Core Lightning v26.06.6 (1:13:06)

● Bitcoin Inquisition 29.4 (1:16:03)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #35215 (1:17:11)

● Bitcoin Core #35766 (1:21:16)

● BIPs #2075 (1:22:44)

● BIPs #2204 (1:25:46)

● Core Lightning #8935 (1:28:43)

● Core Lightning #9324 (1:33:14)

● libsecp256k1 #1765 (1:35:16)

● Rust Bitcoin #6317 (1:41:46)

● BTCPay Server #7457 (1:44:10)

● BLIPs #71 (1:46:24)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Keagan McClelland and Andrew Toth to discuss Newsletter #414.

News

● Formal verification of the Bitcoin protocol (1:11)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 30.3 (39:42)

● Bitcoin Core 29.4 (39:43)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #35295 (52:43)

● Bitcoin Core #34897 (1:13:54)

● Bitcoin Core #35406 (1:16:13)

● Bitcoin Core #35380 (1:21:36)

● Bitcoin Core #35568 (1:07:36)

● Bitcoin Core #34538 (1:23:43)

● BIPs #2208 (1:25:52)

● LND #10962 (1:27:27)

● LND #10897 (1:30:12)

● BINANAs #21 (1:31:34)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sjors Provoost to discuss Newsletter #413.

News

● Using fountain codes for IBD (13:53)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 31.1 (22:52)

● LND v0.20.2-beta (28:49)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #32489 (31:11)

● Bitcoin Core #32606 (33:59)

● Bitcoin Core #34020 (0:48)

● Core Lightning #9104 (42:55)

● Eclair #3323 (45:11)

● LND #10832 (46:24)

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)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Nishant Bansal and Matthew Zipkin to discuss Newsletter #411.

News

● LND zero-timestamp gossip DoS disclosure (1:00)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

● Is it a bug that `OP_IF` is part of the tapscript opcodes? (34:02)

● Why would forbidding `OP_IF` in tapscript be a problem? (41:11)

● Does a softfork always succeed? (49:17)

● How to set up Bitcoin Core to mine a valid block after the BIP110 activation in August 2026? (56:44)

● Are BIP110 blocks on a branch with lower difficulty valid? (59:47)

● What is the story behind Bitcoin test networks? (1:07:41)

● Why was `-datacarriersize` redefined in 2022, and why was the 2023 proposal to expand it not merged? (1:15:35)

● Are chains of 26 unconfirmed transactions prohibited by the wallet in Bitcoin Core 31.0? (1:25:33)

● Are there changes in Bitcoin Core 29.0 that affect memory usage? (1:28:20)

● What is Bitcoin Core's release schedule? (1:30:21)

Releases and release candidates

● LDK v0.1.10 (1:34:50)

● LDK v0.2.3 (1:35:31)

● BTCPay Server 2.4.0 (1:37:04)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #35070 (1:39:27)

● Bitcoin Core #35182 (13:15)

● BIPs #2198 (1:46:09)

● LDK #4713 (1:51:17)

● LDK #4684 (1:53:47)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by rkrux, Roland Bewick, and Steven Roose to discuss ⁠Newsletter #410⁠.

News

● Discussion of removing RBF signaling from wallet transactions (0:57)

Changes to services and client software

● Sparrow Wallet 2.5.0 adds silent payments receiving (59:55)

● Bark live on Bitcoin mainnet (29:46)

● Arké Ark wallet announced (32:18)

● Noah Ark wallet announced (31:52)

● Alby Hub v1.23.0 released (15:00)

● JoinMarket NG 0.32.0 released (1:01:02)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #35221 (1:02:13)

● Bitcoin Core #35254 (1:06:59)

● Bitcoin Core #35498 (1:09:26)

● Eclair #3318 (1:11:06)

● LND #10789 (1:13:05)

● Rust Bitcoin #6321 (1:14:09)

● LDK #4685 (1:16:14)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Vasil Dimov to discuss Newsletter #409.

News

● Draft BIP for testnet5 (0:31)

Releases and release candidates

● LND 0.21.0-beta (17:25)

● Core Lightning 26.06.1 (20:19)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #35410 (21:28)

● Bitcoin Core #34779 (38:00)

● Bitcoin Core #32150 (41:36)

● LDK #4647 (45:14)

● BTCPay Server #7218 (51:34)

● BIPs #2186 (53:07)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Pyth and Ademan to discuss Newsletter #408.

News

● A post-quantum path for BIP324 (37:15)

● Discussion of QR signing payloads for miniscript wallets (1:27)

Changing consensus

● CTV-only vault proof of concept (13:08)

● Post-quantum Lightning discussion (43:41)

● Quantum attack game theory (47:24)

● BIP54 64-byte transactions and potential legitimate uses (49:15)

Releases and release candidates

● Core Lightning 26.06 (1:11:15)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #35269 (1:15:42)

● Bitcoin Core #34644 (1:20:45)

● Bitcoin Core #34198 (1:22:21)

● LND #10813 (1:26:32)

● Rust Bitcoin #6250 (1:28:05)

● BOLTs #1338 (1:36:06)

● BOLTs #1326 (1:37:23)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Chandra Pratap to discuss Newsletter #407.

News

● Core Lightning assertion DoS disclosure (0:47)

● Bitcoin Core developer meeting transcripts (14:34)

Releases and release candidates

● Eclair v0.14.0 (20:30)

● Core Lightning 26.06rc2 (23:01)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33966 (24:14)

● Bitcoin Core #34917 (28:04)

● Bitcoin Core #35017 (30:52)

● BIPs #1944 (35:25)

● BIPs #2108 (36:14)

● Eclair #3192 (39:28)

● LDK #4584 (40:28)

● LDK #4628 (41:27)

● LND #10552 (43:35)

● LND #10820 (48:52)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Oliver Gugger and 0xB10C to discuss Newsletter #406.

News

● Significant updates to BIP322 Generic Signed Message Format (1:17)

● TCP hole punching for Bitcoin nodes behind NATs (17:39)

Changes to services and client software

● Ibis Wallet announced (40:15)

● LDK Server announced (41:10)

● Mempool.space v3.3.0 released (42:06)

● peer-observer P2P monitoring tooling (32:28)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #29136 (43:27)

● Bitcoin Core #34893 (47:24)

● Bitcoin Core #34860 (48:20)

● Bitcoin Core #31298 (53:52)

● Bitcoin Core #28802 (57:04)

● Eclair #3298 (58:52)

● LDK #4575 (1:02:08)

● LND #10814 (1:03:13)

● Rust Bitcoin #6191 (1:04:35)

● BLIPs #42 (1:06:20)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Fabian Jahr to discuss ⁠Newsletter #405⁠.

News

● Bitcoin Core script interpreter remote crash disclosure (22:00)

● BIP proposal for UTXO set sharing over P2P network (0:42)

Releases and release candidates

● Core Lightning 26.06rc1 (34:58)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #35209 (36:44)

● BIPs #2116 (38:20)

● BIPs #2141 (44:13)

● Core Lightning #9116 (48:35)

● Core Lightning #9110 (50:27)

● LDK #4598 (52:10)

● LDK #4528 (53:30)

● LND #10612 (54:37)

● BTCPay Server #7354 (57:12)

● BDK #2195 (58:10)

● Bitcoin Inquisition #100 (1:00:00)

● BINANAs #20 (1:02:42)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Daniela Brozzoni, Naiyoma, and Thomas Voegtlin to discuss Newsletter #404.

News

● Possible solutions to node fingerprinting (1:14)

● Public fraud proof for just-in-time channels (19:21)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33796 (37:11)

● Bitcoin Core #21283 (39:30)

● BIPs #2150 (45:30)

● Eclair #3144 (52:30)

● Eclair #2887 (54:00)

● LDK #4592 (55:27)

● LND #9153 (56:52)

● Rust Bitcoin #5835 (58:02)

● BOLTs #995 (58:56)

● BOLTs #1228 (1:01:40)

● BOLTs #1327 (1:03:28)

Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Brandon Black are joined by Olaoluwa Osuntokun to discuss Newsletter #403.

News

● Binary fuse filters as an alternative to BIP158's GCS (19:05)

Changing consensus

● Post-quantum HD wallets with fallback SPHINCS keys (31:07)

● Discussion of a post-quantum output type (34:42)

● Proposal to embed post-quantum keys in tapscript without consensus changes (38:03)

● BIP54 demonstration of slow blocks on signet (43:28)

● Post-quantum BIP86 recovery using zk-STARK proofs of BIP32 seeds (1:05)

Releases and release candidates

● Core Lightning 26.04.1 (48:16)

● BTCPay Server 2.3.8 (50:15)

● BTCPay Server 2.3.9 (51:52)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33671 (52:39)

● Bitcoin Core #34885 (58:01)

● Bitcoin Core #33920 (59:57)

● Bitcoin Core #34911 (1:02:00)

● BIPs #1548 (1:04:47)

● HWI #831 (1:08:17)

● BDK #2188 (1:09:11)

● BDK #2115 (1:10:14)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Toby Sharp to discuss Newsletter #402.

News

● Hornet Node's declarative executable specification of Bitcoin consensus rules (1:02)

● Onion message jamming in the Lightning Network (23:22)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

● Why did BIP342 replace CHECKMULTISIG with a new opcode, instead of just removing FindAndDelete from it? (40:58)

● Does SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT commit to the tapleaf hash or the full taproot merkle path? (43:28)

● What does the BIP86 tweak guarantee in a MuSig2 Lightning channel, beyond address format? (45:23)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 31.0 (47:10)

● Core Lightning 26.04 (54:26)

● LND 0.21.0-beta.rc1 (56:35)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33477 (57:55)

● Bitcoin Core #35006 (1:02:21)

● BIPs #1895 (1:04:31)

● BIPs #2142 (1:12:47)

● LDK #4555 (1:14:28)

● LND #10713 (1:16:23)

● LND #10754 (1:18:14)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Remix7531 and Luis Schwab to discuss Newsletter #401.

News

● Discussion of using nested MuSig2 in the Lightning Network (34:05)

● Formal verification of secp256k1 modular scalar multiplication (01:10)

Changes to services and client software

● Coldcard 6.5.0 adds MuSig2 and miniscript (40:56)

● Frigate 1.4.0 released (41:46)

● Bitcoin Backbone updates (47:10)

● Utreexod 0.5 released (16:18)

● Floresta 0.9.0 released (19:41)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 31.0rc4 (48:01)

● Core Lightning 26.04rc3 (49:00)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #34401 (50:01)

● Bitcoin Core #35032 (51:51)

● Core Lightning #9021 (55:33)

● Core Lightning #9046 (56:53)

● LDK #4515 (58:25)

● LDK #4558 (59:51)

● LND #9985 (1:01:53)

● BTCPay Server #7250 (1:04:07)

● BIPs #2089 (1:07:28)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Julian Moik to discuss ⁠Newsletter #400⁠.

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club

● Testing Bitcoin Core 31.0 Release Candidates (29:00)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33908 (31:56)

● Eclair #3283 (37:06)

● LDK #4529 (38:12)

● LDK #4494 (39:55)

● LND #10666 (45:31)

● BIPs #2099 (46:40)

● BIPs #2118 (1:15)

● BIPs #2134 (51:08)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Armin Sabouri, Pyth, Conduition, and Jonas Nick to discuss Newsletter #399.

News

● Wallet fingerprinting risks for payjoin privacy (44:15)

● Draft BIP for a wallet backup metadata format (1:04:26)

Changing consensus

● Compact Isogeny PQC can replace HD wallets, key-tweaking, silent payments (24:23)

● Varops budget and tapscript leaf 0xc2 (aka Script Restoration) are BIPs 440 and 441 (1:13:24)

● SHRIMPS: 2.5 KB post-quantum signatures across multiple stateful devices (02:02)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 31.0rc2 (1:22:07)

● Core Lightning 26.04rc2 (1:23:32)

● BTCPay Server 2.3.7 (1:24:04)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #32297 (1:26:29)

● Bitcoin Core #34379 (1:28:54)

● Eclair #3269 (1:30:37)

● LDK #4486 (1:32:59)

● LDK #4428 (1:35:00)

● LND #9982 (1:37:13)

● LND #10063 (1:39:00)

Mike Schmidt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Dusty Daemon to discuss ⁠Newsletter #398⁠.

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

● What is meant by Bitcoin doesn't use encryption? (28:44)

● When and why did Bitcoin Script shift to a commit–reveal structure? (30:26)

● Does P2TR-MS (Taproot M-of-N multisig) leak public keys? (31:50)

● Does OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK intentionally allow cross-UTXO signature reuse? (33:24)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 28.4 (35:05)

● Core Lightning 26.04rc1 (36:19)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33259 (37:51)

● Bitcoin Core #33414 (39:49)

● Bitcoin Core #34846 (41:38)

● Core Lightning #8450 (13:39)

● Core Lightning #8856 (22:08)

● Eclair #3247 (44:21)

● LDK #4472 (25:00)

● LND #10602 (47:25)

● LND #10481 (49:38)

● BOLTs #1160 (0:51)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Corallo, Gregory Sanders, and Sebastian van Staa to discuss ⁠Newsletter #397⁠.

Changes to services and client software

● Cake Wallet adds Lightning support (1:06:09)

● Sparrow 2.4.0 and 2.4.2 released (1:13:15)

● Blockstream Jade adds Lightning via Liquid (1:15:33)

● Lightning Labs releases agent tools (14:49)

● Tether launches MiningOS (1:17:38)

● FIBRE network relaunched (1:35)

● TUI for Bitcoin Core released (1:19:34)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 31.0rc1 (28:24)

● BTCPay Server 2.3.6 (1:20:55)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #31560 (1:21:55)

● Bitcoin Core #31774 (1:23:35)

● Core Lightning #8817 (1:25:12)

● Eclair #3265 (1:27:41)

● LDK #4427 (22:36)

● LDK #4484 (23:45)

● BIPs #1974 (49:52)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonathan Harvey-Buschel to discuss ⁠Newsletter #396⁠.

News

● Collision-resistant hash function for Bitcoin Script (0:30)

● Continued discussion of Gossip Observer traffic analysis tool (8:58)

Releases and release candidates

● BDK wallet 3.0.0-rc.1 (28:04)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #26988 (30:39)

● Bitcoin Core #34692 (32:22)

● LDK #4304 (33:21)

● LDK #4416 (35:41)

● LND #10089 (38:01)

● Libsecp256k1 #1777 (39:46)

● BIPs #2047 (42:39)

● BOLTs #1316 (46:42)

● BOLTs #1312 (47:26)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jon McAlpine, Antoine Poinsot, Mike Casey, and Ethan Heilman to discuss Newsletter #395.

News

● A standard for stateless VTXO verification (1:31)

● Draft BIP for expanded `nVersion` nonce space for miners (1:23:45)

Changing consensus

● Extensions to standard tooling for TEMPLATEHASH-CSFS-IK support (13:52)

● Hourglass V2 update (25:40)

● Algorithm agility for Bitcoin (51:15)

● The limitations of cryptographic agility in Bitcoin (1:05:15)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 28.4rc1 (1:36:53)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33616 (1:38:30)

● Bitcoin Core #34616 (1:42:23)

● Eclair #3256 (1:46:20)

● Eclair #3258 (1:48:34)

● Eclair #3255 (1:50:14)

● LDK #4402 (1:52:27)

● LND #10604 (1:53:56)

● BIPs #1699 (1:55:34)

● BIPs #2106 (1:57:30)

● BIPs #2068 (2:01:28)

● BOLTs #1301 (2:04:54)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Craig Raw and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #393.

News

● Draft BIP for output script descriptor annotations (1:25)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

● Is Bitcoin BIP324 v2 P2P transport distinguishable from random traffic? (35:16)

● What if a miner just broadcasts the header and never gives the block? (39:53)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 28.4rc1 (47:27)

● Rust Bitcoin 0.33.0-beta (47:46)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #34568 (48:48)

● Bitcoin Core #34184 (50:37)

● Bitcoin Core #24539 (51:57)

● Bitcoin Core #34329 (54:56)

● Bitcoin Core #28792 (15:35)

● Bitcoin Core #32138 (54:56)

● Bitcoin Core #34512 (56:44)

● Core Lightning #8490 (58:16)

● Eclair #3250 (59:07)

● LDK #4373 (59:55)

● BDK #2081 (1:02:13)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Misha Komarov, Erik De Smedt, and arbedout to discuss ⁠Newsletter #393⁠.

News

● Recent OP_RETURN output statistics (45:54)

● Bitcoin PIPEs v2 (1:33)

Changes to services and client software

● Second releases hArk-based Ark software (20:21)

● Amboss announces RailsX (55:35)

● Nunchuk adds silent payment support (56:11)

● Electrum adds submarine swap features (58:08)

● Sigbash v2 announced (33:56)

Releases and release candidates

● BTCPay Server 2.3.5 (1:00:11)

● LND 0.20.1-beta (1:01:43)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33965 (1:02:55)

● Eclair #3248 (1:05:55)

● Eclair #3246 (1:07:08)

● LDK #4335 (1:08:52)

● LDK #4318 (1:14:32)

● LND #10542 (1:15:55)

● BIPs #1670 (1:17:02)

● BOLTs #1236 (1:27:50)

● BOLTs #1289 (1:29:10)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner and Oleksandr Kurbatov to discuss ⁠Newsletter #392⁠.

News

● Proposal to limit the number of per-group silent payment recipients (1:13)

● BLISK, Boolean circuit Logic Integrated into the Single Key (26:43)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 29.3 (49:18)

● LDK 0.2.2 (51:16)

● HWI 3.2.0 (52:20)

● Bitcoin Inquisition 29.2 (53:54)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #32420 (56:05)

● Core Lightning #8772 (1:02:29)

● LND #10507 (1:03:56)

● LDK #4387 (1:05:48)

● LDK #4355 (1:08:14)

● LDK #4354 (1:09:21)

● LDK #4303 (1:10:52)

● HWI #784 (1:13:10)

● BIPs #2092 (1:15:02)

● BIPs #2004 (1:16:33)

● BIPs #2017 (1:19:44)

● Bitcoin Inquisition #99 (1:26:53)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Toby Sharp, Chris Hyunhum Cho, Jonas Nick, and Antoine Poinsot to discuss ⁠Newsletter #391⁠.

News

● A constant-time parallelized UTXO database (25:40)

● Bithoven: A formally verified, imperative language for Bitcoin Script (44:48)

● Discussion of dust attack mitigations (1:43:33)

Changing consensus

● SHRINCS: 324-byte stateful post-quantum signatures with static backups (1:30)

● Addressing remaining points on BIP54 (1:10:08)

● Falcon post-quantum signature scheme proposal (20:05)

● SLH-DSA verification can compete with ECC (23:28)

Releases and release candidates

● LDK 0.1.9 (1:50:27)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33604 (1:53:10)

● Bitcoin Core #34358 (1:54:58)

● Core Lightning #8824 (1:56:20)

● Eclair #3244 (1:58:17)

● LDK #4263 (2:00:07)

● LDK #4300 (2:01:54)

● LND #10473 (2:03:57)

● Rust Bitcoin #5493 (2:07:36)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Liam Eagen to discuss Newsletter #390.

News

● Argo: a garbled-circuits scheme with more efficient off-chain computation (0:48)

● LN-Symmetry update (26:05)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

● What is stored in dbcache and with what priority? (34:21)

● Can one do a coinjoin in Shielded CSV? (24:02)

● In Bitcoin Core, how to use Tor for broadcasting new transactions only? (36:47)

● Brassard-Høyer-Tapp (BHT) algorithm and Bitcoin (BIP360) (38:31)

● Why does BitHash alternate sha256 and ripmed160? (39:24)

Releases and release candidates

● Libsecp256k1 0.7.1 (41:09)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33822 (42:59)

● Bitcoin Core #34269 (44:50)

● Core Lightning #8850 (47:38)

● LDK #4349 (49:16)

● Rust Bitcoin #5470 (50:54)

● Rust Bitcoin #5443 (51:26)

● BDK #2037 (52:51)

● BIPs #2076 (55:49)

● BIPs #1500 (59:39)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt to discuss ⁠Newsletter #389⁠.

News

● A mathematical theory of payment channel networks (0:31)

Changes to services and client software

● Electrum server for testing silent payments (30:04)

● BDK WASM library (33:28)

Releases and release candidates

● Core Lightning 25.12.1 (35:14)

● LND 0.20.1-beta.rc1 (39:14)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #32471 (40:57)

● Bitcoin Core #34146 (42:02)

● Core Lightning #8831 (45:00)

● LDK #4261 (45:35)

● LDK #4152 (46:24)

● LND #10488 (47:42)

● LND #10331 (48:43)

● Rust Bitcoin #5402 (49:06)

● BIPs #1820 (50:39)

● BOLTs #1306 (51:41)

● BLIPs #59 (53:05)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bruno Garcia to discuss ⁠Newsletter #388⁠.

News

● An overview of incremental mutation testing in Bitcoin Core (0:43)

● BIP process updated (18:53)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 30.2 (26:31)

● BTCPay Server 2.3.3 (27:23)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33819 (28:42)

● Bitcoin Core #29415 (31:44)

● Core Lightning #8830 (42:16)

● Eclair #3233 (44:19)

● Eclair #3237 (47:59)

● LDK #4232 (50:00)

● LND #10296 (52:24)

● BTCPay Server #7068 (53:43)

● BIPs #1982 (55:37)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt and Craig Raw to discuss ⁠Newsletter #387⁠.

News

● Bitcoin Core wallet migration bug (0:55)

● Using Ark as a channel factory (7:47)

● Draft BIP for silent payment descriptors (29:02)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 30.2rc1 (58:34)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #34156 (59:32)

● Bitcoin Core #34085 (1:03:54)

● Bitcoin Core #34197 (1:07:43)

● Bitcoin Core #33135 (1:09:10)

● LDK #4213 (1:11:02)

● Eclair #3217 (1:15:39)

● LND #10367 (1:18:49)

● Rust Bitcoin #5450 (1:22:51)

● Rust Bitcoin #5434 (1:23:40)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns and Mikhail Kudinov to discuss ⁠Newsletter #386⁠.

News

● Building a vault using blinded co-signers (1:04:09)

● Peer feature negotiation (1:40)

Changing consensus

● Year 2106 timestamp overflow uint64 migration (1:07:47)

● Relax BIP54 timestamp restriction for 2106 soft fork (1:11:36)

● Understanding and mitigating a CTV footgun (1:16:30)

● CTV activation meeting (1:21:00)

● `OP_CHECKCONSOLIDATION` to enable cheaper consolidations (1:23:11)

● Hash-based signatures for Bitcoin's post-quantum future (20:47)

Releases and release candidates

● BTCPay Server 2.3.0 (1:28:29)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33657 (1:30:25)

● Bitcoin Core #32414 (1:33:23)

● Bitcoin Core #32545 (1:39:18)

● Bitcoin Core #33892 (1:42:13)

● Core Lightning #8784 (1:44:35)

● LND #9489 (1:45:54)

● BIPs #2051 (1:50:09)

● BOLTs #1299 (1:56:39)

● BOLTs #1305 (1:59:46)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier, Rearden Code, and Pieter Wuille to discuss Newsletter #385: 2025 Year-in-Review Special.

January

● Updated ChillDKG draft (43:08)

● Offchain DLCs (45:53)

● Compact block reconstructions (2:29:27)

February

● Erlay update (1:53:55)

● LN ephemeral anchor scripts (0:50)

● Probabilistic payments (54:45)

March

● Bitcoin Forking Guide (3:29:35)

● Private block template marketplace to prevent centralizing MEV (3:05:28)

● LN upfront and hold fees using burnable outputs (13:12)

April

● SwiftSync speedup for initial block download (2:09:35)

● DahLIAS interactive aggregate signatures (3:26:02)

Summary 2025: Quantum (58:07)

May

● Cluster mempool (1:22:11)

● Increasing or removing Bitcoin Core’s OP_RETURN policy limit (2:45:43)

June

● Calculating the selfish mining danger threshold (2:20:39)

● Fingerprinting nodes using addr messages (3:11:38)

● Garbled locks (3:19:01)

Summary 2025: Soft fork proposals (26:57)

July

● Chain code delegation (49:07)

August

● Utreexo draft BIPs (2:15:57)

● Lowering the minimum relay feerate (2:39:52)

● Peer block template sharing (2:56:01)

● Differential fuzzing of Bitcoin and LN implementations (3:16:08)

Summary 2025: Stratum v2 (2:04:49)

September

● Details about the design of Simplicity (3:23:01)

● Partitioning and eclipse attacks using BGP interception (3:13:47)

October

● Discussions about arbitrary data (3:01:15)

● Channel jamming mitigation simulation results and updates (11:05)

November

● Comparing performance of ECDSA signature validation in OpenSSL vs. libsecp256k1 (2:01:47)

● Modeling stale rates by propagation delay and mining centralization (2:22:32)

● BIP3 and the BIP process (3:31:37)

● Bitcoin Kernel C API introduced (3:35:35)

December

● Splicing (7:33)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse and Salvatore Ingala to discuss ⁠Newsletter #384⁠.

News

● Critical vulnerabilities fixed in LND 0.19.0 (0:59)

● A virtualized secure enclave for hardware signing devices (21:11)

Changes to services and client software

● Interactive transaction visualization tool (37:16)

● BlueWallet v7.2.2 released (38:20)

● Stratum v2 updates (38:42)

● Auradine announces Stratum v2 support (40:18)

● LDK Node 0.7.0 released (41:58)

● BIP-329 Python Library 1.0.0 release (43:30)

● Bitcoin Safe 1.6.0 released (44:34)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

● Does a clearnet connection to my Lightning node require a TLS certificate? (45:12)

● Why do different implementations produce different DER signatures for the same private key and hash? (45:58)

● Why is the miniscript `after` value limited at 0x80000000? (49:27)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33528 (53:12)

● Bitcoin Core #33723 (54:17)

● Bitcoin Core #33993 (56:35)

● Bitcoin Core #33553 (59:54)

● Eclair #3220 (1:01:52)

● LDK #4231 (1:02:48)

● LND #10396 (1:05:40)

● BTCPay Server #7022 (1:08:26)

● Rust Bitcoin #5379 (1:09:32)

● BIPs #2050 (1:10:06)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Moonsettler and Julian to discuss Newsletter #383.

News

● Consensus bug in NBitcoin library (1:04)

Changing consensus

● LNHANCE soft fork (24:00)

● Benchmarking the varops budget (5:09)

● SLH-DSA (SPHINCS) post-quantum signature optimizations (45:29)

Releases and release candidates

● Core Lightning v25.12 (1:02:24)

● LDK 0.2 (1:03:43)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Core Lightning #8728 (1:05:14)

● Core Lightning #8702 (1:06:55)

● Core Lightning #8735 (1:07:24)

● LDK #4226 (1:11:41)

● LND #10341 (1:12:49)

● BTCPay Server #6986 (1:14:00)

● BIPs #2015 (1:16:18)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #382⁠.

News

● Stats on compact block reconstructions updates (0:34)

● Motion to activate BIP3 (7:26)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

● Do pruned nodes store witness inscriptions? (24:27)

● Increasing probability of block hash collisions when difficulty is too high (29:33)

● What is the purpose of the initial 0x04 byte in all extended public and private keys? (33:25)

Releases and release candidates

● LND v0.20.0-beta (34:57)

● Core Lightning v25.12rc1 (35:57)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33872 (37:55)

● Bitcoin Core #33629 (42:05)

● Core Lightning #8677 (49:49)

● Core Lightning #8546 (51:28)

● Core Lightning #8682 (53:19)

● LDK #4197 (55:39)

● LDK #4234 (1:00:56)

● LDK #4148 (1:02:17)

● BDK #2027 (1:03:04)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot and ZmnSCPxj to discuss Newsletter #381.

News

● Modeling stale rates by propagation delay and mining centralization (1:03)

● Private key handover for collaborative closure (30:55)

Changes to services and client software

● Arkade launches (52:32)

● Mempool monitoring mobile application (55:25)

● Web-based policy and miniscript IDE (56:25)

● Phoenix Wallet adds taproot channels (57:45)

● Nunchuk 2.0 launches (59:19)

● LN gossip traffic analysis tool announced (1:01:49)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33745 (1:04:23)

● Core Lightning #8537 (1:09:28)

● Core Lightning #8608 (1:11:26)

● Core Lightning #8646 (1:13:34)

● Core Lightning #8569 (1:17:44)

● Core Lightning #8558 (1:22:46)

● LDK #4126 (1:24:11)

● LDK #4208 (1:26:37)

● LND #9432 (1:27:58)

● BOLTs #1284 (1:31:38)

● BOLTs #1044 (1:33:33)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by TheCharlatan to discuss Newsletter #380.

Releases and release candidates

● LND 0.20.0-beta.rc4 (1:30)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #30595 (2:56)

● Bitcoin Core #33443 (28:03)

● Core Lightning #8656 (29:42)

● Core Lightning #8671 (30:22)

● LDK #4204 (33:09)

● BIPs #2022 (34:45)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner, PortlandHODL, Tadge Dryja, and Antoine Poinsot to discuss Newsletter #379.

News

● Comparing performance of ECDSA signature validation in OpenSSL vs. libsecp256k1 (1:47)

Changing consensus

● Multiple discussions about restricting data (14:05)

● Post-quantum signature aggregation (1:00:05)

● Native STARK proof verification in Bitcoin Script (1:18:47)

● BIP54 implementation and test vectors (35:47)

Releases and release candidates

● Core Lightning 25.09.2 (1:30:54)

● LND 0.20.0-beta.rc3 (1:31:44)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #31645 (1:32:34)

● Core Lightning #8636 (1:40:08)

● Core Lightning #8639 (1:43:18)

● Core Lightning #8635 (1:44:31)

● Eclair #3209 (1:46:25)

● Eclair #3206 (1:46:59)

● Eclair #3210 (1:49:31)

● LDK #4140 (1:54:13)

● LDK #4168 (1:59:12)

● Rust Bitcoin #5116 (2:01:06)

● BTCPay Server #6922 (2:05:05)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #378.

News

● CPU DoS from unconfirmed transaction processing (1:00)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

● Why was -datacarriersize redefined in 2022, and why was the 2023 proposal to expand it not merged? (17:53)

● What is the smallest valid transaction that can be included in a block? (22:59)

● Why does Bitcoin Core continue to give witness data a discount even when it is used for inscriptions? (25:38)

● The ever-growing Bitcoin blockchain size? (39:17)

● I read that OP_TEMPLATEHASH is a variant of OP_CTV. How do they differ? (44:59)

Releases and release candidates

● LND 0.20.0-beta.rc1 (49:59)

● Eclair 0.13.1 (50:43)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #29640 (51:21)

● Core Lightning #8400 (54:15)

● Eclair #3173 (54:53)

● LND #10280 (56:56)

● BIPs #2006 (57:27)

● BIPs #1975 (1:00:58)

Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Mike Schmidt are joined by Abubakar Sadiq Ismail and Carla Kirk-Cohen to discuss ⁠Newsletter #377⁠.

News

● Detecting block template feerate increases using cluster mempool (1:06)

● Channel jamming mitigation simulation results and updates (9:28)

Changes to services and client software

● BULL wallet launches (37:22)

● Sparrow 2.3.0 released (39:40)

Releases and release candidates

● Core Lightning 25.09.1 (40:47)

● Bitcoin Core 28.3 (41:18)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33157 (43:00)

● Bitcoin Core #29675 (45:56)

● Bitcoin Core #33517 (46:59)

● Eclair #2792 (49:01)

● LDK #4122 (51:01)

● LND #9868 (52:37)

● LND #10273 (53:48)

Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Mike Schmidt are joined by Francesco Madonna and supertestnet to discuss Newsletter #376.

News

● Continued discussion of block template sharing (17:30)

● B-SSL a Secure Bitcoin Signing Layer (2:54)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 30.0 (22:32)

● Bitcoin Core 29.2 (28:44)

● LDK 0.1.6 (29:37)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Eclair #3184 (30:59)

● Core Lightning #8597 (32:25)

● LDK #4117 (34:05)

● LDK #4077 (35:03)

● LDK #4154 (36:47)

Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sindura Saraswathi, ZmnSCPxj, and Eugene Siegel to discuss ⁠Newsletter #375⁠.

News

● Optimal Threshold Signatures (1:56)

● Flattening certain nested threshold signatures (14:33)

● Theoretical limitations on embedding data in the UTXO set (38:14)

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club

● Compact block harness (27:12)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Inquisition 29.1 (45:01)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33453 (47:16)

● Bitcoin Core #33504 (51:52)

● Core Lightning #8563 (53:55)

● Core Lightning #8523 (56:55)

● Core Lightning #8398 (58:22)

● LDK #4120 (59:47)

● LND #10254 (1:01:35)