Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #358 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot, Peter Todd, Josh Doman, and TheCharlatan to discuss ⁠Newsletter #358⁠.

News

● Calculating the selfish mining danger threshold (0:52)

● Relay censorship resistance through top mempool set reconciliation (59:26)

● Updating BIP390 to allow duplicate participant keys in `musig()` expressions (55:50)

● Descriptor encryption library (31:35)

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club

● Separate UTXO set access from validation functions (43:05)

Releases and release candidates

● Core Lightning 25.05rc1 (58:25)

● LND 0.19.1-beta (58:38)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #32406 (19:54)

● LDK #3793 (1:14:21)

● LDK #3792 (1:14:59)

● LND #9127 (1:18:38)

● LND #9858 (1:20:04)

● BOLTs #1243 (1:21:49)