Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #393 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Misha Komarov, Erik De Smedt, and arbedout to discuss ⁠Newsletter #393⁠.

News

● Recent OP_RETURN output statistics (45:54)

● Bitcoin PIPEs v2 (1:33)

Changes to services and client software

● Second releases hArk-based Ark software (20:21)

● Amboss announces RailsX (55:35)

● Nunchuk adds silent payment support (56:11)

● Electrum adds submarine swap features (58:08)

● Sigbash v2 announced (33:56)

Releases and release candidates

● BTCPay Server 2.3.5 (1:00:11)

● LND 0.20.1-beta (1:01:43)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33965 (1:02:55)

● Eclair #3248 (1:05:55)

● Eclair #3246 (1:07:08)

● LDK #4335 (1:08:52)

● LDK #4318 (1:14:32)

● LND #10542 (1:15:55)

● BIPs #1670 (1:17:02)

● BOLTs #1236 (1:27:50)

● BOLTs #1289 (1:29:10)