Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #379 Recap

12/11/2025 2h 7min

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Episode Synopsis

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner, PortlandHODL, Tadge Dryja, and Antoine Poinsot to discuss Newsletter #379.News● Comparing performance of ECDSA signature validation in OpenSSL vs. libsecp256k1 (1:47) Changing consensus● Multiple discussions about restricting data (14:05) ● Post-quantum signature aggregation (1:00:05) ● Native STARK proof verification in Bitcoin Script (1:18:47) ● BIP54 implementation and test vectors (35:47) Releases and release candidates● Core Lightning 25.09.2 (1:30:54) ● LND 0.20.0-beta.rc3 (1:31:44) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitcoin Core #31645 (1:32:34) ● Core Lightning #8636 (1:40:08) ● Core Lightning #8639 (1:43:18) ● Core Lightning #8635 (1:44:31) ● Eclair #3209 (1:46:25) ● Eclair #3206 (1:46:59) ● Eclair #3210 (1:49:31) ● LDK #4140 (1:54:13) ● LDK #4168 (1:59:12) ● Rust Bitcoin #5116 (2:01:06) ● BTCPay Server #6922 (2:05:05)