Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, Niklas Gögge, Gloria Zhao, and Rearden to discuss ⁠Newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special⁠.

January

• Fee-dependent timelocks (16:18 )


• Optimized contract protocol exits (17:20 )


• LN-Symmetry proof-of-concept implementation (18:22 )

February

• Replace by feerate (22:32 )


• Human-readable payment instructions (27:25 )


• Improved ASMap generation (28:09 )


• LN dual funding (32:33 )


• Trustless betting on future feerates (32:56 )

Summary 2024: Vulnerability disclosures (7:05 )

March

• BINANAs and BIPs (33:33 )


• Enhanced feerate estimation (34:41 )


• More efficient transaction sponsorship (46:08 )

April

• Consensus cleanup (50:06 )


• Reforming the BIPs process (51:08 )


• Inbound routing fees (53:10 )


• Weak blocks (54:01 )


• Restarting testnet (57:43 )


• Developers arrested (1:00:06 )

Summary 2024: Cluster mempool (1:01:10 )

May

• Silent payments (1:06:51 )


• BitVMX (1:07:37 )


• Anonymous usage tokens (1:09:50 )


• LN channel upgrades (1:12:00 )


• Ecash for pool miners (1:13:33 )


• Miniscript specification (1:14:54 )


• Utreexo beta (1:16:16 )

June

• LN payment feasibility and channel depletion (1:18:17 )


• Quantum-resistant transaction signing (1:20:02 )

Summary 2024: P2P transaction relay (1:20:39 )

July

• Blinded paths for BOLT11 invoices (1:31:07 )


• ChillDKG key generation for threshold signatures (1:31:47 )


• BIPs for MuSig and threshold signatures (1:32:18 )

August

• Hyperion network simulator (1:33:00 )


• Full RBF (1:33:56 )

Summary 2024: Covenants and script upgrades (2:08 )

September

• Hybrid jamming mitigation tests and tweaks (1:35:10 )


• Shielded CSV (1:38:40 )


• LN offline payments (1:41:22 )

October

• BOLT12 offers (1:42:34 )


• Mining interfaces, block withholding, and share validation cost (1:43:13 )

Summary 2024: Major releases of popular infrastructure projects (1:50:41 )

November

• SuperScalar timeout tree channel factories (1:51:19 )


• Fast and cheap low-value offchain payment resolution (1:53:29 )

Summary 2024: Bitcoin Optech (1:55:17 )