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Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #286 Recap

January 26, 2024·1h 10m

Show Notes

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Niklas Gögge, Bastien Teinturier, Anthony Towns, Gloria Zhao, Nicholas Gregory, and Tom Trevethan to discuss ⁠Newsletter #286⁠.

News

  • Disclosure of fixed consensus failure in btcd (1:33)
  • Proposed changes to LN for v3 relay and ephemeral anchors (13:40)
  • New documentation repository (29:56)

Changes to services and client software

  • Envoy 1.5 released (45:41)
  • Liana v4.0 released (46:39)
  • Mercury Layer announced (47:46)
  • AQUA wallet announced (57:18)
  • Samourai Wallet announces atomic swap feature (57:49)

Releases and release candidates

  • LDK 0.0.120 (58:37)
  • HWI 2.4.0-rc1 (59:11)

Notable code and documentation changes

  • Bitcoin Core #29239 (59:37)
  • Eclair #2810 (1:02:16)
  • LDK #2791 (1:05:32)
  • Rust Bitcoin #2230 (1:07:43)