Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #364 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse and Jesse Posner to discuss ⁠Newsletter #364⁠.

News

● LND gossip filter DoS vulnerability (0:53)

● Chain code withholding for multisig scripts (15:16)

● Research indicates common Bitcoin primitives are compatible with quantum-resistant signature algorithms (38:46)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

● How does Bitcoin Core handle reorgs larger than 10 blocks? (57:36)

● Advantages of a signing device over an encrypted drive? (1:01:29)

● Spending a taproot output through the keypath and scriptpath? (1:03:21)

Releases and release candidates

● Libsecp256k1 v0.7.0 (1:04:26)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #32521 (1:05:16)

● Bitcoin Core #31829 (1:15:00)

● LDK #3801 (1:19:51)

● LDK #3842 (1:21:11)

● BIPs #1890 (1:21:57)

● BOLTs #1232 (1:23:53)