Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #285 Recap

18/01/2024 1h 15min

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Episode Synopsis

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Brandon Black, Chris Stewart, Gregory Sanders, and Oliver Gugger to discuss ⁠Newsletter #285⁠.
News

Disclosure of past vulnerability in Core Lightning (2:15)
New LNHANCE combination soft fork proposed (4:59)
Proposal for 64-bit arithmetic soft fork (21:08)
Overview of cluster mempool proposal (38:25)
Updated specification and implementation of Bitcoin transaction compression (45:22)
Discussion of Miner Extractable Value (MEV) in non-zero ephemeral anchors (46:51)

Releases and release candidates

LDK 0.0.119 (56:24)

Notable code and documentation changes

Bitcoin Core #29058 (57:17)
Bitcoin Core #29200 (58:59)
Bitcoin Core #28890 (1:00:08)
Eclair #2808 (1:01:25)
LND #8188 (1:02:09)
LND #8096 (1:07:44)
LND #8095 (1:09:08)