Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #306 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Fabian Jahr, Anthony Towns, and Matt Corallo to discuss Newsletter #306.

News

• Upcoming disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting old versions of Bitcoin Core (1:02)


• BIP and experimental implementation of testnet4 (10:17)


• Functional encryption covenants (24:58)


• Updates to proposed soft fork for 64-bit arithmetic (31:27)


• `OP_CAT` script to validate proof of work (33:32)


• Proposed update to BIP21 (42:12)

Releases and release candidates

• Core Lightning 24.05rc2 (54:53)


• Bitcoin Core 27.1rc1 (55:51)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Core Lightning #7252 (56:50)


• LDK #2931 (1:02:19)


• Rust Bitcoin #2644 (1:04:11)


• BIPs #1541 (1:05:19)


• BIPs #1556 (1:07:34)


• BLIPs #32 (1:09:28)