Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #308 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jameson Lopp and Valentine Wallace to discuss ⁠Newsletter #308⁠.

News

• Disclosure of vulnerability affecting old versions of LND (0:54)


• Continued discussion of PSBTs for silent payments (7:32)

Changes to services and client software

• Casa adds descriptor support (10:55)


• Specter-DIY v1.9.0 released (40:52)


• Constant-time analysis tool cargo-checkct announced (41:26)


• Jade adds miniscript support (43:15)


• Ark implementation announced (45:32)


• Volt Wallet beta announced (46:42)


• Joinstr adds electrum support (47:20)


• Bitkit v1.0.1 released (47:50)


• Civkit alpha announced (48:20)

Releases and release candidates

• Bitcoin Core 26.2rc1 (49:01)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #29325 (50:11)


• Eclair #2867 (52:04)


• LND #8730 (52:33)


• LDK #3098 (28:14)


• LDK #3078 (32:35)


• LDK #3082 (33:53)


• LDK #3103 (35:18)


• LDK #3037 (38:07)