Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #234 Recap

19/01/2023 1h 11min

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Episode Synopsis

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by James O’Beirne to discuss Newsletter #234.

News

Proposal for new vault-specific opcodes (1:48)

Changes to services and client software

Kraken announces sending to taproot addresses (53:01)
Whirlpool coinjoin rust client library announced (53:45)
Ledger supports miniscript (54:25)
Liana wallet released (55:11)
Electrum 4.3.3 released (58:40)

Releases and release candidates

HWI 2.2.0 (1:00:04)

Notable code and documentation changes

Core Lightning #5751 (1:02:54)
BIPs #1378 (1:06:23)