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)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Corallo, Gregory Sanders, and Sebastian van Staa to discuss ⁠Newsletter #397⁠.

Changes to services and client software

● Cake Wallet adds Lightning support (1:06:09)

● Sparrow 2.4.0 and 2.4.2 released (1:13:15)

● Blockstream Jade adds Lightning via Liquid (1:15:33)

● Lightning Labs releases agent tools (14:49)

● Tether launches MiningOS (1:17:38)

● FIBRE network relaunched (1:35)

● TUI for Bitcoin Core released (1:19:34)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 31.0rc1 (28:24)

● BTCPay Server 2.3.6 (1:20:55)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #31560 (1:21:55)

● Bitcoin Core #31774 (1:23:35)

● Core Lightning #8817 (1:25:12)

● Eclair #3265 (1:27:41)

● LDK #4427 (22:36)

● LDK #4484 (23:45)

● BIPs #1974 (49:52)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonathan Harvey-Buschel to discuss ⁠Newsletter #396⁠.

News

● Collision-resistant hash function for Bitcoin Script (0:30)

● Continued discussion of Gossip Observer traffic analysis tool (8:58)

Releases and release candidates

● BDK wallet 3.0.0-rc.1 (28:04)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #26988 (30:39)

● Bitcoin Core #34692 (32:22)

● LDK #4304 (33:21)

● LDK #4416 (35:41)

● LND #10089 (38:01)

● Libsecp256k1 #1777 (39:46)

● BIPs #2047 (42:39)

● BOLTs #1316 (46:42)

● BOLTs #1312 (47:26)