Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #282: 2023 Year-in-Review Special Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Dave Harding, and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #282: 2023 Year-in-Review Special⁠.

January

• Bitcoin Inquisition (10:59)


• Swap-in-potentiam (14:03)


• BIP329 wallet label export format (19:32)

February

• Ordinals and inscriptions (20:22)


• Bitcoin Search, ChatBTC, and TL;DR (41:50)


• Peer storage backups (43:40)


• LN quality of service (44:10)


• HTLC endorsement (47:31)


• Codex32 (48:33)

March

• Hierarchical channels (50:57)

Summary 2023: Soft fork proposals (54:22)

April

• Watchtower accountability proofs (1:04:24)


• Route blinding (1:05:58)


• MuSig2 (1:08:36)


• RGB and Taproot Assets (1:12:47)


• Channel splicing (1:16:06)

May

• LSP specifications (1:21:10)


• Payjoin (1:23:07)


• Ark (1:27:40)

June

• Silent payments (1:30:33)

Summary 2023: Security disclosures (1:32:34)

July

• Validating Lightning Signer (1:36:10)


• LN developer meeting (1:38:00)

August

• Onion messages (1:38:28)


• Outdated backup proofs (1:41:52)


• Simple taproot channels (1:44:39)

September

• Compressed Bitcoin transactions (1:46:40)

Summary 2023: Major releases of popular infrastructure projects (1:48:19)

October

• Payment switching and splitting (1:49:46)


• Sidepools (1:51:30)


• AssumeUTXO (1:55:28)


• Version 2 P2P transport (1:55:51)


• Miniscript (1:57:18)


• State compression and BitVM (2:00:07)

November

• Offers (2:05:53)


• Liquidity advertisements (2:08:26)

Summary 2023: Bitcoin Optech (1:11)

December

• Cluster mempool (2:11:10)


• Warnet (2:13:12)