Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #319 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Filippo Merli, Lorenzo Bonazzi, Matt Corallo, Eric Voskuil, and rkrux to discuss ⁠Newsletter #319⁠.

News

• Stratum v2 extension for fee revenue sharing (1:49)


• OP_CAT research fund (17:53)


• Mitigating merkle tree vulnerabilities (22:43)

Releases and release candidates

• Core Lightning 24.08 (55:21)


• LDK 0.0.124 (57:59)


• LND v0.18.3-beta.rc2 (1:06:19)


• BDK 1.0.0-beta.2 (1:06:43)


• Bitcoin Core 28.0rc1 (1:07:27)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #30454 (1:15:05)


• Bitcoin Core #22838 (1:17:41)


• Eclair #2865 (1:19:56)


• LND #9009 (1:21:49)


• LDK #3268 (1:23:33)


• BIPs #1657 (1:26:55)