Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #285 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Brandon Black, Chris Stewart, Gregory Sanders, and Oliver Gugger to discuss ⁠Newsletter #285⁠.

News

• Disclosure of past vulnerability in Core Lightning (2:15)


• New LNHANCE combination soft fork proposed (4:59)


• Proposal for 64-bit arithmetic soft fork (21:08)


• Overview of cluster mempool proposal (38:25)


• Updated specification and implementation of Bitcoin transaction compression (45:22)


• Discussion of Miner Extractable Value (MEV) in non-zero ephemeral anchors (46:51)

Releases and release candidates

• LDK 0.0.119 (56:24)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #29058 (57:17)


• Bitcoin Core #29200 (58:59)


• Bitcoin Core #28890 (1:00:08)


• Eclair #2808 (1:01:25)


• LND #8188 (1:02:09)


• LND #8096 (1:07:44)


• LND #8095 (1:09:08)