Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #357 Recap

12/06/2025 1h 36min

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jose SK, Clara Shikhelman, Vojtěch Strnad, Robin Linus, and Dan Gould to discuss ⁠Newsletter #357⁠.News● Syncing full nodes without witnesses (1:30) Changing consensus● Quantum computing report (17:38) ● Transaction weight limit with exception to prevent confiscation (41:49) ● Removing outputs from the UTXO set based on value and time (53:47) Releases and release candidates● Core Lightning 25.05rc1 (1:07:45) ● LND 0.19.1-beta.rc1 (1:08:02) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitcoin Core #32582 (1:09:08) ● Bitcoin Core #31375 (1:07:45) ● BIPs #1483 (1:14:16)