Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #398 Recap

Mike Schmidt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Dusty Daemon to discuss ⁠Newsletter #398⁠.

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

● What is meant by Bitcoin doesn't use encryption? (28:32)

● When and why did Bitcoin Script shift to a commit–reveal structure? (30:23)

● Does P2TR-MS (Taproot M-of-N multisig) leak public keys? (32:30)

● Does OP_CHECKSIGFROMSTACK intentionally allow cross-UTXO signature reuse? (33:20)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 28.4 (34:58)

● Core Lightning 26.04rc1 (36:30)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33259 (38:40)

● Bitcoin Core #33414 (39:47)

● Bitcoin Core #34846 (41:00)

● Core Lightning #8450 (13:39)

● Core Lightning #8856 (22:08)

● Eclair #3247 (47:00)

● LDK #4472 (24:46)

● LND #10602 (50:00)

● LND #10481 (50:30)

● BOLTs #1160 (0:35)