Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #359 Recap
Description
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bryan Bishop, Robin Linus, and Rene Pickhardt to discuss Newsletter #359.
News
● Proposal to restrict access to Bitcoin Core Project discussion (1:11 )
● Improvements to BitVM-style contracts (21:17 )
● Channel rebalancing research (41:57 )
Changes to services and client software
● Cove v1.0.0 released (1:03:58 )
● Liana v11.0 released (1:04:59 )
● Stratum v2 STARK proof demo (1:06:48 )
● Breez SDK adds BOLT12 and BIP353 (1:08:41 )
Releases and release candidates
● Core Lightning 25.05 (1:09:51 )
Notable code and documentation changes
● Eclair #3110 (1:11:32 )
● Eclair #3101 (1:12:41 )
● LDK #3817 (1:13:35 )
● LDK #3623 (1:14:04 )
● BTCPay Server #6755 (1:15:11 )
● Rust libsecp256k1 #798 (1:15:54 )