Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #335 Recap

07/01/2025 1h 37min

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Episode Synopsis

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Yuval Kogman, Jeremy Rubin, and Steve Myers to discuss ⁠Newsletter #335⁠.
News

Deanonymization attacks against centralized coinjoin (1:39)
Updated ChillDKG draft (14:09)


Changing consensus

CTV enhancement opcodes (18:41)
Adjusting difficulty beyond 256 bits (31:52)
Transitory soft forks for cleanup soft forks (33:44)
Quantum computer upgrade path (48:09)
Consensus cleanup timewarp grace period (56:10)


Releases and release candidates

BDK wallet-1.0.0 (1:06:44)
LND 0.18.4-beta (1:17:28)
Core Lightning v24.11.1 (1:18:13)
Bitcoin Core 28.1rc2 (1:18:47)
LDK v0.1.0-beta1 (1:19:37)


Notable code and documentation changes

Bitcoin Core #31223 (1:20:19)
Eclair #2888 (1:21:09)
LDK #3495 (1:22:35)
LDK #3436 (1:24:31)
LDK #3435 (1:25:02)
LDK #3365 (1:26:04)
LDK #3340 (1:26:41)
BDK #1670 (1:28:47)
BIPs #1689 (1:31:45)
BIPs #1697 (1:33:49)
BLIPs #52 (1:34:21)
BLIPs #54 (1:35:40)