Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #394 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Craig Raw and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #393.

News

● Draft BIP for output script descriptor annotations (1:25)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

● Is Bitcoin BIP324 v2 P2P transport distinguishable from random traffic? (35:16)

● What if a miner just broadcasts the header and never gives the block? (39:53)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 28.4rc1 (47:27)

● Rust Bitcoin 0.33.0-beta (47:46)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #34568 (48:48)

● Bitcoin Core #34184 (50:37)

● Bitcoin Core #24539 (51:57)

● Bitcoin Core #34329 (54:56)

● Bitcoin Core #28792 (15:35)

● Bitcoin Core #32138 (54:56)

● Bitcoin Core #34512 (56:44)

● Core Lightning #8490 (58:16)

● Eclair #3250 (59:07)

● LDK #4373 (59:55)

● BDK #2081 (1:02:13)