Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #321 Recap

Rijndael and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andy Schroder and Virtu to discuss ⁠Newsletter #321⁠.

News

• Proving UTXO set inclusion in zero knowledge (1:47)
• LN offline payments (11:32)
• DNS seeding for non-IP addresses (30:00)

Changes to services and client software

• Strike adds BOLT12 support (42:15)
• BitBox02 adds silent payment support (43:29)
• The Mempool Open Source Project v3.0.0 released (45:22)
• ZEUS v0.9.0 released (46:39)
• Live Wallet adds consolidation support (47:04)
• Bisq adds Lightning support (48:30)

Releases and release candidates

• HWI 3.1.0 (49:32)
• Core Lightning 24.08.1 (49:56)
• BDK 1.0.0-beta.4 (50:27)
• Bitcoin Core 28.0rc2 (51:04)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #28358 (52:23)
• Bitcoin Core #30286 (53:53)
• Bitcoin Core #30807 (55:24)
• LND #8981 (56:36)
• LDK #3140 (57:34)
• LDK #3163 (58:50)
• LDK #3010 (59:40)
• BDK #1581 (1:00:18)
• BDK #1561 (1:01:21)