Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #286 Recap

26/01/2024 1h 10min

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Episode Synopsis

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Niklas Gögge, Bastien Teinturier, Anthony Towns, Gloria Zhao, Nicholas Gregory, and Tom Trevethan to discuss ⁠Newsletter #286⁠.
News

Disclosure of fixed consensus failure in btcd (1:33)
Proposed changes to LN for v3 relay and ephemeral anchors (13:40)
New documentation repository (29:56)

Changes to services and client software

Envoy 1.5 released (45:41)
Liana v4.0 released (46:39)
Mercury Layer announced (47:46)
AQUA wallet announced (57:18)
Samourai Wallet announces atomic swap feature (57:49)

Releases and release candidates

LDK 0.0.120 (58:37)
HWI 2.4.0-rc1 (59:11)

Notable code and documentation changes

Bitcoin Core #29239 (59:37)
Eclair #2810 (1:02:16)
LDK #2791 (1:05:32)
Rust Bitcoin #2230 (1:07:43)