Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #273 Recap

19/10/2023 50 min

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Episode Synopsis

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Robin Linus and Antoine Poinsot to discuss ⁠Newsletter #273⁠.
News

Security disclosure of issue affecting LN (1:09)
Payments contingent on arbitrary computation (8:15)
Proposed BIP for MuSig2 fields in PSBTs (26:44)

Changes to services and client software

BIP-329 Python library released (29:10)
LN testing tool Doppler announced (30:19)
Coldcard Mk4 v5.2.0 released (31:54)
Tapleaf circuits: a BitVM demo (32:27)
Samourai Wallet 0.99.98i released (34:24)
Krux: signing device firmware (35:12)

Releases and release candidates

Bitcoin Core 24.2rc2 (36:06)

Notable code and documentation changes

Bitcoin Core #27255 (38:07)
Eclair #2703 (45:54)
LND #7267 (47:06)
BDK #1041 (47:39)