Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #359 Recap

24/06/2025 1h 18min

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Episode Synopsis

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bryan Bishop, Robin Linus, and Rene Pickhardt to discuss ⁠Newsletter #359⁠.News● Proposal to restrict access to Bitcoin Core Project discussion (1:11) ● Improvements to BitVM-style contracts (21:17) ● Channel rebalancing research (41:57) Changes to services and client software● Cove v1.0.0 released (1:03:58) ● Liana v11.0 released (1:04:59) ● Stratum v2 STARK proof demo (1:06:48) ● Breez SDK adds BOLT12 and BIP353 (1:08:41) Releases and release candidates● Core Lightning 25.05 (1:09:51) Notable code and documentation changes● Eclair #3110 (1:11:32) ● Eclair #3101 (1:12:41) ● LDK #3817 (1:13:35) ● LDK #3623 (1:14:04) ● BTCPay Server #6755 (1:15:11) ● Rust libsecp256k1 #798 (1:15:54)