Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #348 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick, Jameson Lopp, Steven Roose, Gregory Sanders, and Salvatore Ingala to discuss ⁠Newsletter #348⁠.

News

● Educational and experimental-based secp256k1 implementation (1:09)

Changing consensus

● Should vulnerable bitcoins be destroyed? (9:17)

● Securely proving UTXO ownership by revealing a SHA256 preimage (34:52)

● Draft BIP for destroying quantum-insecure bitcoins (44:01)

● Criticism of CTV motivation (51:16)

● CTV+CSFS benefits (1:06:02)

● Benefit of CTV to Ark users (1:24:37)

● OP_CHECKCONTRACTVERIFY semantics (1:31:49)

● Draft BIP published for consensus cleanup (1:58:29)

Releases and release candidates

● BDK wallet 1.2.0 (2:06:03)

● LDK v0.1.2 (2:06:48)

● Bitcoin Core 29.0rc3 (2:07:13)

● LND 0.19.0-beta.rc1 (2:08:36)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #31363 (2:09:03)

● Bitcoin Core #31278 (2:09:44)

● Eclair #3050 (2:12:41)

● Eclair #2963 (2:13:54)

● Eclair #3045 (2:14:44)

● LDK #3670 (2:15:47)

● LND #9620 (2:16:24)