Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #298 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #298⁠.

News

• What would have happened if cluster mempool had been deployed a year ago? (0:42)

Changes to services and client software

• Phoenix for server announced (19:26)


• Mercury Layer adds Lightning swaps (21:32)


• Stratum V2 Reference Implementation v1.0.0 released (22:46)


• Teleport Transactions update (25:09)


• Bitcoin Keeper v1.2.1 released (28:10)


• BIP-329 label management software (29:02)


• Key agent Sigbash launches (31:37)

Releases and release candidates

• Bitcoin Core 27.0 (35:19)


• BTCPay Server 1.13.1 (41:50)


• LDK 0.0.122 (42:55)

Notable code and documentation changes

• LDK #2704 (44:40)