Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #294 Recap


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Mar 21 2024 71 mins   10

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner, Anthony Towns, and Russell O’Connor to discuss ⁠Newsletter #294⁠.


News

  • BIP324 proxy for light clients (1:20)
  • Overview of BTC Lisp (10:44)

Changes to services and client software

  • BitGo adds RBF support (38:59)
  • Phoenix Wallet v2.2.0 released (40:11)
  • Bitkey hardware signing device released (44:19)
  • Envoy v1.6.0 released (47:49)
  • VLS v0.11.0 released (49:22)
  • Portal hardware signing device announced (50:54)
  • Braiins mining pool adds Lightning support (51:44)
  • Ledger Bitcoin App 2.2.0 released (54:14)

Releases and release candidates

  • Bitcoin Core 26.1rc2 (55:51)
  • Bitcoin Core 27.0rc1 (56:48)

Notable code and documentation changes

  • Bitcoin Core #27375 (57:43)
  • Bitcoin Core #27114 (58:59)
  • Bitcoin Core #29306 (1:02:19)
  • LND #8310 (1:09:04)
  • Rust Bitcoin #2458 (1:10:12)