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Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #285 Recap

January 18, 2024·1h 15m

Show Notes

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Brandon Black, Chris Stewart, Gregory Sanders, and Oliver Gugger to discuss ⁠Newsletter #285⁠.

News

  • Disclosure of past vulnerability in Core Lightning (2:15)
  • New LNHANCE combination soft fork proposed (4:59)
  • Proposal for 64-bit arithmetic soft fork (21:08)
  • Overview of cluster mempool proposal (38:25)
  • Updated specification and implementation of Bitcoin transaction compression (45:22)
  • Discussion of Miner Extractable Value (MEV) in non-zero ephemeral anchors (46:51)

Releases and release candidates

  • LDK 0.0.119 (56:24)

Notable code and documentation changes

  • Bitcoin Core #29058 (57:17)
  • Bitcoin Core #29200 (58:59)
  • Bitcoin Core #28890 (1:00:08)
  • Eclair #2808 (1:01:25)
  • LND #8188 (1:02:09)
  • LND #8096 (1:07:44)
  • LND #8095 (1:09:08)