Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #342 Recap

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier and Joost Jager discuss ⁠Newsletter #342⁠.

News

● Allowing mobile wallets to settle channels without extra UTXOs (0:59)

● Continued discussion about an LN quality of service flag (13:14)

Changes to services and client software

● Ark Wallet SDK released (40:28)

● Zaprite adds BTCPay Server support (40:57)

● Iris Wallet desktop released (41:21)

● Sparrow 2.1.0 released (41:41)

● Scure-btc-signer 1.6.0 released (42:38)

● Py-bitcoinkernel alpha (43:48)

● Rust-bitcoinkernel library (44:30)

● BIP32 cbip32 library (45:56)

● Lightning Loop moves to MuSig2 (46:22)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #27432 (47:01)

● Bitcoin Core #30529 (48:29)

● Bitcoin Core #31384 (49:42)

● Core Lightning #8059 (50:52)

● Core Lightning #7985 (53:41)

● Core Lightning #7887 (54:32)

● Eclair #2967 (26:06)

● Eclair #2979 (32:24)

● Eclair #3002 (34:32)

● LDK #3575 (57:35)

● LDK #3562 (23:51)

● BOLTs #1205 (26:13)