Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #370 Recap
September 10, 2025·1h 5m·w/ Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Mike Schmidt, Russell O’Connor, Olaoluwa Osuntokun, Jeremy Rubin
Show Notes
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Russell O’Connor, Olaoluwa Osuntokun, and Jeremy Rubin to discuss Newsletter #370.
Changing consensus
● Details about the design of Simplicity (37:56)
● Draft BIP for adding elliptic curve operations to tapscript (1:52)
● Draft BIP for OP_TWEAKADD (19:23)
Releases and release candidates
● Core Lightning v25.09 (59:40)
● Bitcoin Core 29.1rc2 (1:00:24)
Notable code and documentation changes
● LDK #3726 (1:00:55)
● LDK #4019 (1:02:24)
● LND #9455 (1:03:09)
● LND #10103 (1:04:00)
● HWI #795 (1:05:20)
