Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #222 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by John Light and Gregory Sanders to discuss Newsletter #222.

News

• Block parsing bug affecting BTCD and LND (0:10)
• Transaction replacement option (5:34)
• Validity rollups research (18:02)
• MuSig2 security vulnerability (52:00)
• Minimum relayable transaction size (55:55)
• BIP324 update (1:01:52)

Changes to services and client software

• btcd v0.23.2 released (1:05:30)
• ZEBEDEE announces hosted channel libraries (1:06:30)
• Cashu launches with Lightning support (1:08:47)
• Address explorer Spiral launches (1:13:10)
• BitGo announces Lightning support (1:16:15)
• ZeroSync project launches (1:17:42)

Releases and release candidates

• Bitcoin Core 24.0 RC2 (1:20:16)
• LND 0.15.3-beta (1:21:22)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #23549 (1:21:38)
• Bitcoin Core #25412 (1:23:29)
• LND #6956 (1:23:49)
• LND #7004 (1:25:31)
• LDK #1625 (1:25:54)