Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #336 Recap

14/01/2025 47 min

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Episode Synopsis

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Abubakar Sadiq Ismail, Gregory Sanders, and Daniel Roberts to discuss ⁠Newsletter #336⁠.
News

Investigating mining pool behavior before fixing a Bitcoin Core bug (1:07)
Contract-level relative timelocks (15:04)
Multiparty LN-Symmetry variant with penalties for limiting published updates (29:06)


Releases and release candidates

Bitcoin Core 28.1 (39:54)
BDK 0.30.1 (40:45)
LDK v0.1.0-beta1 (42:01)


Notable code and documentation changes

Bitcoin Core #28121 (42:22)
BDK #1592 (43:14)