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)