Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #359 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bryan Bishop, Robin Linus, and Rene Pickhardt to discuss ⁠Newsletter #359⁠.

News

● Proposal to restrict access to Bitcoin Core Project discussion (1:11)

● Improvements to BitVM-style contracts (21:17)

● Channel rebalancing research (41:57)

Changes to services and client software

● Cove v1.0.0 released (1:03:58)

● Liana v11.0 released (1:04:59)

● Stratum v2 STARK proof demo (1:06:48)

● Breez SDK adds BOLT12 and BIP353 (1:08:41)

Releases and release candidates

● Core Lightning 25.05 (1:09:51)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Eclair #3110 (1:11:32)

● Eclair #3101 (1:12:41)

● LDK #3817 (1:13:35)

● LDK #3623 (1:14:04)

● BTCPay Server #6755 (1:15:11)

● Rust libsecp256k1 #798 (1:15:54)