Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #286 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Niklas Gögge, Bastien Teinturier, Anthony Towns, Gloria Zhao, Nicholas Gregory, and Tom Trevethan to discuss ⁠Newsletter #286⁠.

News

• Disclosure of fixed consensus failure in btcd (1:33)


• Proposed changes to LN for v3 relay and ephemeral anchors (13:40)


• New documentation repository (29:56)

Changes to services and client software

• Envoy 1.5 released (45:41)


• Liana v4.0 released (46:39)


• Mercury Layer announced (47:46)


• AQUA wallet announced (57:18)


• Samourai Wallet announces atomic swap feature (57:49)

Releases and release candidates

• LDK 0.0.120 (58:37)


• HWI 2.4.0-rc1 (59:11)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #29239 (59:37)


• Eclair #2810 (1:02:16)


• LDK #2791 (1:05:32)


• Rust Bitcoin #2230 (1:07:43)