Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #218 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jeremy Rubin and Paul Sztorc to discuss Newsletter #218.

News

• Creating drivechains with APO and a trusted setup (1:07)

Changes to services and client software

• Mempool Project launches Lightning Network explorer (51:19)
• Federation software Fedimint adds Lightning (45:23)
• Bitpay wallet improves RBF support (52:02)
• Mutiny Lightning wallet announced (53:03)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Core Lightning #5581 (56:41)
• Eclair #2418 (54:46)
• Eclair #2416 (56:59)
• LND #6335 (58:11)
• LDK #1706 (59:37)