Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #349 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner, Ruben Somsen, and Abubakar Sadiq Ismail to discuss ⁠Newsletter #349⁠.

News

● SwiftSync speedup for initial block download (0:34)

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club

● Add Fee rate Forecaster Manager (29:33)

Releases and release candidates

● Core Lightning 25.02.1 (46:54)

● Core Lightning 24.11.2 (47:03)

● BTCPay Server 2.1.0 (48:14)

● Bitcoin Core 29.0rc3 (49:25)

● LND 0.19.0-beta.rc2 (51:21)

Notable code and documentation changes

● LDK #2256 (53:52)

● LND #9669 (56:16)

● Rust Bitcoin #4302 (57:24)