Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #231: 2022 Year-in-Review Special Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding to discuss ⁠Newsletter #231⁠.

January

• Stateless invoices (7:37)
• Legal defense fund (11:21)

February

• Fee sponsorship (12:45)
• Phantom node payments (15:14)

March

• LN pathfinding (17:37)
• Zero-conf channels (21:12)

Summary 2022: Replace-By-Fee (24:02)

April

• Silent payments (31:17)
• Taro (35:06)
• Quantum-safe key exchange (45:29)

May

• MuSig2 (48:51)
• Package relay (52:12)
• Bitcoin kernel library (54:49)

June

• LN protocol developers meeting (57:46)

July

• Onion message rate limiting (1:03:58)
• Miniscript descriptors (1:06:34)

August

• LN interactive and dual funding (1:12:59)
• Channel jamming attack mitigation (1:15:18)
• BLS signatures for DLCs (1:18:18)

Summary 2022: Bitcoin Optech (1:23:11)

September

• Fee ratecards (1:26:07)

October

• Version 3 transaction relay (1:29:09)
• Async payments (1:33:25)
• Block parsing bugs (1:36:41)
• ZK rollups (1:37:07)
• Encrypted version 2 transport protocol (1:39:41)
• Meeting of Bitcoin protocol developers (1:41:26)

Summary 2022: Soft fork proposals (1:43:40)

November

• Fat error messages (1:51:24)

December

• Modifying the LN protocol (1:55:57)