Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #302 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Calvin Kim to discuss ⁠Newsletter #302⁠.

News

• Release of utreexod beta (0:56)


• BIP119 extensions for smaller hashes and arbitrary data commitments (20:15)

Releases and release candidates

• LDK v0.0.123 (25:16)


• LND v0.18.0-beta.rc2 (26:08)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #29845 (28:16)


• Core Lightning #7111 (29:34)


• Libsecp256k1 #1518 (32:04)


• Rust Bitcoin #2707 (34:30)


• BIPs #1389 (37:29)


• BIPs #1567 (42:21)


• BIPs #1525 (44:08)