Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #246 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Lisa Neigut and Niklas Gögge to discuss Newsletter #246.

News

• Splicing specification discussions (1:24)


• Proposed BIP for transaction terminology (40:49)

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club

• Don’t download witnesses for assumed-valid blocks when running in prune mode (43:42)

Releases and release candidates

• Libsecp256k1 0.3.1 (53:10)


• BDK 1.0.0-alpha.0 (58:08)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Core Lightning #6012 (58:33)


• Core Lightning #6124 (1:02:01)


• Eclair #2607 (1:03:06)


• LND #7437 (1:04:05)


• LND #7069 (1:04:43)


• BIPs #1372 (1:06:18)