Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #317 Recap

27/08/2024 1h 14min

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Episode Synopsis

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bob McElrath and moonsettler to discuss ⁠Newsletter #317⁠.
News

Simple (but imperfect) anti-exfiltration protocol (0:53)

Changes to services and client software

Proton Wallet announced (23:33)
CPUNet testnet announced (25:38)
Lightning.Pub launches (38:52)
Taproot Assets v0.4.0-alpha released (39:45)
Stratum v2 benchmarking tool released (41:31)
STARK verification PoC on signet (42:52)
SeedSigner 0.8.0 released (48:48)
Floresta 0.6.0 released (50:25)

Releases and release candidates

Core Lightning 24.08rc2 (51:52)
LND v0.18.3-beta.rc1 (52:33)

Notable code and documentation changes

Bitcoin Core #28553 (53:18)
Bitcoin Core #30246 (56:39)
Bitcoin Core GUI #824 (1:02:10)
Core Lightning #7540 (1:04:20)
Core Lightning #7403 (1:05:20)
LND #8943 (1:06:13)
BDK #1478 (1:07:26)
BDK #1533 (1:08:12)
BOLTs #1182 (1:11:49)
BLIPs #39 (1:12:55)