Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #263 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, Clara Shikhelman, Peter Todd, Josie Baker, and Eduardo Quintana to discuss Newsletter #263.

Action items

• Severe Libbitcoin Bitcoin Explorer vulnerability (1:25)

News

• Denial-of-Service (DoS) protection design philosophy (12:00)
• HTLC endorsement testing and data collection (18:40)
• Proposed changes to Bitcoin Core default relay policy (28:04)
• Libbitcoin Bitcoin Explorer security disclosure (1:25)

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club

• Silent Payments: Implement BIP352 (53:57)

Releases and release candidates

• BDK 0.28.1 (1:12:41)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #27746 (1:13:06)
• Core Lightning #6376 (1:15:51)
• Core Lightning #6466 (1:27:13)
• Core Lightning #6253 (1:29:13)
• Rust Bitcoin #1945 (1:30:01)
• BOLTs #759 (1:32:21)