Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #222 Recap

20/10/2022 1h 27min

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Episode Synopsis

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by John Light and Gregory Sanders to discuss Newsletter #222.

News

Block parsing bug affecting BTCD and LND (0:10)
Transaction replacement option (5:34)
Validity rollups research (18:02)
MuSig2 security vulnerability (52:00)
Minimum relayable transaction size (55:55)
BIP324 update (1:01:52)

Changes to services and client software

btcd v0.23.2 released (1:05:30)
ZEBEDEE announces hosted channel libraries (1:06:30)
Cashu launches with Lightning support (1:08:47)
Address explorer Spiral launches (1:13:10)
BitGo announces Lightning support (1:16:15)
ZeroSync project launches (1:17:42)

Releases and release candidates

Bitcoin Core 24.0 RC2 (1:20:16)
LND 0.15.3-beta (1:21:22)

Notable code and documentation changes

Bitcoin Core #23549 (1:21:38)
Bitcoin Core #25412 (1:23:29)
LND #6956 (1:23:49)
LND #7004 (1:25:31)
LDK #1625 (1:25:54)