Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #285 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Brandon Black, Chris Stewart, Gregory Sanders, and Oliver Gugger to discuss ⁠Newsletter #285⁠.

News

• Disclosure of past vulnerability in Core Lightning (2:15)
• New LNHANCE combination soft fork proposed (4:59)
• Proposal for 64-bit arithmetic soft fork (21:08)
• Overview of cluster mempool proposal (38:25)
• Updated specification and implementation of Bitcoin transaction compression (45:22)
• Discussion of Miner Extractable Value (MEV) in non-zero ephemeral anchors (46:51)

Releases and release candidates

• LDK 0.0.119 (56:24)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #29058 (57:17)
• Bitcoin Core #29200 (58:59)
• Bitcoin Core #28890 (1:00:08)
• Eclair #2808 (1:01:25)
• LND #8188 (1:02:09)
• LND #8096 (1:07:44)
• LND #8095 (1:09:08)