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Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #346 Recap

March 26, 2025·1h 21m

Show Notes

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse, Yong Yu, Alejandro De La Torre, Jan B, and Marco De Leon to discuss ⁠Newsletter #346⁠.


News

● Discussion of LND's dynamic feerate adjustment system (1:24)


Changes to services and client software

● Wally 1.4.0 released (17:17)

● Bitcoin Core Config Generator announced (18:05)

● A regtest development environment container (18:55)

● Explora transaction visualization tool (20:17)

● Hashpool v0.1 tagged (21:35)

● DMND launching pooled mining (24:36)

● Krux adds taproot and miniscript (22:21)

● Source-available secure element announced (23:01)

● Nunchuk launches Group Wallet (45:04)

● FROSTR protocol announced (46:03)

● Bark launches on signet (46:57)

● Cove Bitcoin wallet announced (48:43)


Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 29.0rc2 (50:38)


Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #31649 (1:03:19)

● Bitcoin Core #31283 (37:27)

● Eclair #3037 (1:15:29)

● LND #9546 (1:16:33)

● LND #9458 (1:17:17)

● BTCPay Server #6581 (1:18:10)

● BDK #1839 (1:20:59)

● BOLTs #1233 (15:39)