Bitcoin Optech Podcast

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)