Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #402 Recap
Show Notes
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Toby Sharp to discuss Newsletter #402.
News
● Hornet Node's declarative executable specification of Bitcoin consensus rules (1:02)
● Onion message jamming in the Lightning Network (23:22)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
● Why did BIP342 replace CHECKMULTISIG with a new opcode, instead of just removing FindAndDelete from it? (40:58)
● Does SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT commit to the tapleaf hash or the full taproot merkle path? (43:28)
● What does the BIP86 tweak guarantee in a MuSig2 Lightning channel, beyond address format? (45:23)
Releases and release candidates
● Bitcoin Core 31.0 (47:10)
● Core Lightning 26.04 (54:26)
● LND 0.21.0-beta.rc1 (56:35)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #33477 (57:55)
● Bitcoin Core #35006 (1:02:21)
● BIPs #1895 (1:04:31)
● BIPs #2142 (1:12:47)
● LDK #4555 (1:14:28)
● LND #10713 (1:16:23)
● LND #10754 (1:18:14)
