Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #308 Recap

25/06/2024 54 min

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Episode Synopsis

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jameson Lopp and Valentine Wallace to discuss ⁠Newsletter #308⁠.
News

Disclosure of vulnerability affecting old versions of LND (0:54)
Continued discussion of PSBTs for silent payments (7:32)

Changes to services and client software

Casa adds descriptor support (10:55)
Specter-DIY v1.9.0 released (40:52)
Constant-time analysis tool cargo-checkct announced (41:26)
Jade adds miniscript support (43:15)
Ark implementation announced (45:32)
Volt Wallet beta announced (46:42)
Joinstr adds electrum support (47:20)
Bitkit v1.0.1 released (47:50)
Civkit alpha announced (48:20)

Releases and release candidates

Bitcoin Core 26.2rc1 (49:01)

Notable code and documentation changes

Bitcoin Core #29325 (50:11)
Eclair #2867 (52:04)
LND #8730 (52:33)
LDK #3098 (28:14)
LDK #3078 (32:35)
LDK #3082 (33:53)
LDK #3103 (35:18)
LDK #3037 (38:07)