Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #288 Recap

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier and Eugene Siegel to discuss Newsletter #288.

News

• Public disclosure of a block stalling bug in Bitcoin Core affecting LN (1:26)
• Securely opening zero-conf channels with v3 transactions (17:08)
• Requirement to verify inputs use segwit in protocols vulnerable to txid malleability (27:00)
• Proposal for replace by feerate to escape pinning (35:21)
• Bitcoin-Dev mailing list migration update (51:15)

Releases and release candidates

• LND v0.17.4-beta (1:00:02)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #29189 (1:01:13)
• Bitcoin Core #28956 (1:07:23)
• Bitcoin Core #29347 (1:10:03)
• Core Lightning #6985 (1:10:45)
• Core Lightning #6904 (1:12:54)
• Core Lightning #7022 (1:14:53)
• Core Lightning #6936 (1:16:16)
• LND #8345 (1:18:02)