Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, Niklas Gögge, Gloria Zhao, and Rearden to discuss ⁠Newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special⁠.
January

Fee-dependent timelocks (16:18)
Optimized contract protocol exits (17:20)
LN-Symmetry proof-of-concept implementation (18:22)


February

Replace by feerate (22:32)
Human-readable payment instructions (27:25)
Improved ASMap generation (28:09)
LN dual funding (32:33)
Trustless betting on future feerates (32:56)


Summary 2024: Vulnerability disclosures (7:05)

March

BINANAs and BIPs (33:33)
Enhanced feerate estimation (34:41)
More efficient transaction sponsorship (46:08)


April

Consensus cleanup (50:06)
Reforming the BIPs process (51:08)
Inbound routing fees (53:10)
Weak blocks (54:01)
Restarting testnet (57:43)
Developers arrested (1:00:06)


Summary 2024: Cluster mempool (1:01:10)

May

Silent payments (1:06:51)
BitVMX (1:07:37)
Anonymous usage tokens (1:09:50)
LN channel upgrades (1:12:00)
Ecash for pool miners (1:13:33)
Miniscript specification (1:14:54)
Utreexo beta (1:16:16)


June

LN payment feasibility and channel depletion (1:18:17)
Quantum-resistant transaction signing (1:20:02)


Summary 2024: P2P transaction relay (1:20:39)

July

Blinded paths for BOLT11 invoices (1:31:07)
ChillDKG key generation for threshold signatures (1:31:47)
BIPs for MuSig and threshold signatures (1:32:18)


August

Hyperion network simulator (1:33:00)
Full RBF (1:33:56)


Summary 2024: Covenants and script upgrades (2:08)

September

Hybrid jamming mitigation tests and tweaks (1:35:10)
Shielded CSV (1:38:40)
LN offline payments (1:41:22)


October

BOLT12 offers (1:42:34)
Mining interfaces, block withholding, and share validation cost (1:43:13)


Summary 2024: Major releases of popular infrastructure projects (1:50:41)

November

SuperScalar timeout tree channel factories (1:51:19)
Fast and cheap low-value offchain payment resolution (1:53:29)


Summary 2024: Bitcoin Optech (1:55:17)

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