Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #278 Recap

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier and Robin Linus to discuss Newsletter #278.

News

• Offers-compatible LN addresses (1:20)

Changes to services and client software

• BitMask Wallet 0.6.3 released (17:42)


• Opcode documentation website announced (20:08)


• Athena Bitcoin adds Lightning support (21:42)


• Blixt v0.6.9 released (22:22)


• Durabit whitepaper announced (23:07)


• BitStream whitepaper announced (25:01)


• BitVM proof of concepts (42:33)


• Bitkit adds taproot send support (55:17)

Releases and release candidates

• LND v0.17.2-beta (55:53)


• Bitcoin Core 26.0rc2 (56:34)


• Core Lightning 23.11rc3 (57:37)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Core Lightning #6857 (58:45)


• Eclair #2752 (59:42)