Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #256 Recap

22/06/2023 49 min

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Episode Synopsis

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Thomas Voegtlin to discuss Newsletter #256.

News

Proposal to extend BOLT11 invoices to request two payments (1:00)

Waiting for confirmation #6: Policy Consistency (19:25)
Changes to services and client software

Greenlight libraries open sourced (32:01)
Tapscript debugger Tapsim (33:25)
Bitcoin Keeper 1.0.4 announced (35:09)
Lightning wallet EttaWallet announced (35:47)
zkSNARK-based block header sync PoC announced (37:09)
lnprototest v0.0.4 released (39:45)

Releases and release candidates

Eclair v0.9.0 (41:24)

Notable code and documentation changes

LDK #2294 (44:33)
LDK #2156 (46:57)