Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #306 Recap

11/06/2024 1h 17min

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Episode Synopsis

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Fabian Jahr, Anthony Towns, and Matt Corallo to discuss Newsletter #306.

News

Upcoming disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting old versions of Bitcoin Core (1:02)
BIP and experimental implementation of testnet4 (10:17)
Functional encryption covenants (24:58)
Updates to proposed soft fork for 64-bit arithmetic (31:27)
`OP_CAT` script to validate proof of work (33:32)
Proposed update to BIP21 (42:12)

Releases and release candidates

Core Lightning 24.05rc2 (54:53)
Bitcoin Core 27.1rc1 (55:51)

Notable code and documentation changes

Core Lightning #7252 (56:50)
LDK #2931 (1:02:19)
Rust Bitcoin #2644 (1:04:11)
BIPs #1541 (1:05:19)
BIPs #1556 (1:07:34)
BLIPs #32 (1:09:28)