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 )