Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #357 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jose SK, Clara Shikhelman, Vojtěch Strnad, Robin Linus, and Dan Gould to discuss ⁠Newsletter #357⁠.

News

● Syncing full nodes without witnesses (1:30)

Changing consensus

● Quantum computing report (17:38)

● Transaction weight limit with exception to prevent confiscation (41:49)

● Removing outputs from the UTXO set based on value and time (53:47)

Releases and release candidates

● Core Lightning 25.05rc1 (1:07:45)

● LND 0.19.1-beta.rc1 (1:08:02)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #32582 (1:09:08)

● Bitcoin Core #31375 (1:07:45)

● BIPs #1483 (1:14:16)