Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #273 Recap

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #273 Recap

Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Robin Linus and Antoine Poinsot to discuss ⁠Newsletter #273⁠.

News

  • Security disclosure of issue affecting LN (1:09)
  • Payments contingent on arbitrary computation (8:15)
  • Proposed BIP for MuSig2 fields in PSBTs (26:44)

Changes to services and client software

  • BIP-329 Python library released (29:10)
  • LN testing tool Doppler announced (30:19)
  • Coldcard Mk4 v5.2.0 released (31:54)
  • Tapleaf circuits: a BitVM demo (32:27)
  • Samourai Wallet 0.99.98i released (34:24)
  • Krux: signing device firmware (35:12)

Releases and release candidates

  • Bitcoin Core 24.2rc2 (36:06)

Notable code and documentation changes

  • Bitcoin Core #27255 (38:07)
  • Eclair #2703 (45:54)
  • LND #7267 (47:06)
  • BDK #1041 (47:39)

Activity

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