Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andrew Toth, Antoine Poinsot, and Tony Klausing to discuss ⁠Newsletter #304⁠.

News

• Upgrading existing LN channels (1:27 )


• Challenges in rewarding pool miners (6:58 )


• Spending previously received SP outputs (12:40 )


• Proposed miniscript BIP (21:32 )


• Channel value pegging (31:42 )

Changes to services and client software

• Silent payment resources (43:50 )


• Cake Wallet adds silent payments (46:14 )


• Coordinator-less coinjoin PoC (46:26 )


• OCEAN adds BOLT12 support (47:10 )


• Coinbase adds Lightning support (48:57 )


• Bitcoin escrow tooling announced (49:20 )


• Block's call for mining community feedback (49:48 )


• Sentrum wallet tracker released (50:34 )


• Stack Wallet adds FROST support (51:19 )


• Transaction broadcast tool announced (53:41 )

Releases and release candidates

• Bitcoin Inquisition 27.0 (56:30 )


• LND v0.18.0-beta.rc2 (1:00:10 )

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #27101 (1:00:30 )


• Bitcoin Core #30000 (1:01:27 )


• Bitcoin Core #28233 (1:02:42 )


• Core Lightning #7304 (1:09:41 )


• Core Lightning #7063 (1:10:18 )


• Rust Bitcoin #2740 (1:17:54 )