Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #316 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier and Hennadii Stepanov to discuss Newsletter #316.

News

• New time warp vulnerability in testnet4 (1:05)
• Onion message DoS risk discussion (14:20)
• Optional identification and authentication of LN payers (28:04)
• Bitcoin Core switch to CMake build system (36:15)

Releases and release candidates

• BDK 1.0.0-beta.1 (53:55)
• Core Lightning 24.08rc2 (54:10)
• LND v0.18.3-beta.rc1 (54:29)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #29519 (55:01)
• Bitcoin Core #30598 (59:29)
• Bitcoin Core #28280 (1:02:18)
• Bitcoin Core #28052 (1:04:47)
• Core Lightning #7528 (1:08:01)
• Core Lightning #7533 (1:10:11)
• Core Lightning #7517 (1:11:19)
• LND #8955 (1:13:08)
• LND #8886 (1:14:39)
• LND #8967 (1:19:45)
• LDK #3215 (1:22:13)
• BLIPs #27 (1:26:27)