Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #350 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Niklas Gögge to discuss ⁠Newsletter #350⁠.

Changes to services and client software

● Bitcoin Knots version 28.1.knots20250305 released (11:26)

● PSBTv2 explorer announced (13:51)

● LNbits v1.0.0 released (14:38)

● The Mempool Open Source Project® v3.2.0 released (15:22)

● Coinbase MPC library released (17:25)

● Lightning Network liquidity tool released (21:20)

● Versioned Storage Service announced (22:25)

● Fuzz testing tool for Bitcoin nodes (1:17)

● Bitcoin Control Board components open-sourced (23:50)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 29.0 (25:13)

● LND 0.19.0-beta.rc2 (34:41)

Notable code and documentation changes

● LDK #3593 (35:04)

● BOLTs #1242 (35:57)

Correction (37:38)