Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Fabian Jahr, Anthony Towns, and Matt Corallo to discuss Newsletter #306.

News

• Upcoming disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting old versions of Bitcoin Core (1:02)
• BIP and experimental implementation of testnet4 (10:17)
• Functional encryption covenants (24:58)
• Updates to proposed soft fork for 64-bit arithmetic (31:27)
• `OP_CAT` script to validate proof of work (33:32)
• Proposed update to BIP21 (42:12)

Releases and release candidates

• Core Lightning 24.05rc2 (54:53)
• Bitcoin Core 27.1rc1 (55:51)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Core Lightning #7252 (56:50)
• LDK #2931 (1:02:19)
• Rust Bitcoin #2644 (1:04:11)
• BIPs #1541 (1:05:19)
• BIPs #1556 (1:07:34)
• BLIPs #32 (1:09:28)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Setor Blagogee, Oghenovo Usiwoma, Pierre Rochard, and Alex Bosworth to discuss Newsletter #305.

News

• Light client protocol for silent payments (1:52)
• Raw taproot descriptors (14:56)
• Should overlapping soft fork proposals be considered mutually exclusive? (28:02)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• What's the smallest possible coinbase transaction / block size? (1:13:32)
• Understanding Script's number encoding, CScriptNum (1:14:18)
• Is there a way to make a BTC wallet address public but hide how many BTC it contains? (1:16:04)
• Testing increased feerates in regtest (1:18:05)
• Why is my P2P_V2 peer connected over a v1 connection? (1:20:41)
• Does a P2PKH transaction send to the hash of the uncompressed key or the compressed key? (1:21:58)
• What are different ways to broadcast a block to the Bitcoin network? (1:23:20)

Releases and release candidates

• LND v0.18.0-beta (43:23)
• Core Lightning 24.05rc2 (1:12:21)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #29612 (1:27:11)
• Bitcoin Core #27064 (1:29:59)
• Bitcoin Core #29873 (1:30:55)
• Bitcoin Core #30062 (1:34:15)
• Bitcoin Core #26606 (1:38:17)
• BOLTs #1092 (1:41:41)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andrew Toth, Antoine Poinsot, and Tony Klausing to discuss ⁠Newsletter #304⁠.

News

• Upgrading existing LN channels (1:27)
• Challenges in rewarding pool miners (6:58)
• Spending previously received SP outputs (12:40)
• Proposed miniscript BIP (21:32)
• Channel value pegging (31:42)

Changes to services and client software

• Silent payment resources (43:50)
• Cake Wallet adds silent payments (46:14)
• Coordinator-less coinjoin PoC (46:26)
• OCEAN adds BOLT12 support (47:10)
• Coinbase adds Lightning support (48:57)
• Bitcoin escrow tooling announced (49:20)
• Block's call for mining community feedback (49:48)
• Sentrum wallet tracker released (50:34)
• Stack Wallet adds FROST support (51:19)
• Transaction broadcast tool announced (53:41)

Releases and release candidates

• Bitcoin Inquisition 27.0 (56:30)
• LND v0.18.0-beta.rc2 (1:00:10)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #27101 (1:00:30)
• Bitcoin Core #30000 (1:01:27)
• Bitcoin Core #28233 (1:02:42)
• Core Lightning #7304 (1:09:41)
• Core Lightning #7063 (1:10:18)
• Rust Bitcoin #2740 (1:17:54)