Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #265 Recap

24/08/2023 58 min

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Episode Synopsis

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Peter Todd and Henrik Skogstrøm to discuss Newsletter #265.

News

Fraud proofs for outdated backup state (1:20)

Changes to services and client software

Scaling Lightning call for feedback (18:07)
Torq v1.0 released (30:31)
Blixt Wallet v0.6.8 released (36:03)
Sparrow 1.7.8 released (37:19)
Open source ASIC miner bitaxeUltra prototype (38:21)
FROST software Frostsnap announced (39:10)
Libfloresta library announced (42:25)
Wasabi Wallet 2.0.4 released (51:32)

Releases and release candidates

Core Lightning 23.08rc3 (43:57)
HWI 2.3.1 (44:35)

Notable code and documentation changes

Bitcoin Core #27981 (45:03)
BOLTs #919 (46:55)
Rust Bitcoin #1990 (49:21)
Rust Bitcoin #1962 (50:09)
BIPs #1485 (50:39)