Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #256 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Thomas Voegtlin to discuss Newsletter #256.

News

• Proposal to extend BOLT11 invoices to request two payments (1:00)

Waiting for confirmation #6: Policy Consistency (19:25)

Changes to services and client software

• Greenlight libraries open sourced (32:01)


• Tapscript debugger Tapsim (33:25)


• Bitcoin Keeper 1.0.4 announced (35:09)


• Lightning wallet EttaWallet announced (35:47)


• zkSNARK-based block header sync PoC announced (37:09)


• lnprototest v0.0.4 released (39:45)

Releases and release candidates

• Eclair v0.9.0 (41:24)

Notable code and documentation changes

• LDK #2294 (44:33)


• LDK #2156 (46:57)