Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #389 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt to discuss ⁠Newsletter #389⁠.

News

● A mathematical theory of payment channel networks (0:31)

Changes to services and client software

● Electrum server for testing silent payments (30:04)

● BDK WASM library (33:28)

Releases and release candidates

● Core Lightning 25.12.1 (35:14)

● LND 0.20.1-beta.rc1 (39:14)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #32471 (40:57)

● Bitcoin Core #34146 (42:02)

● Core Lightning #8831 (45:00)

● LDK #4261 (45:35)

● LDK #4152 (46:24)

● LND #10488 (47:42)

● LND #10331 (48:43)

● Rust Bitcoin #5402 (49:06)

● BIPs #1820 (50:39)

● BOLTs #1306 (51:41)

● BLIPs #59 (53:05)