Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #346 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse, Yong Yu, Alejandro De La Torre, Jan B, and Marco De Leon to discuss ⁠Newsletter #346⁠.

News

● Discussion of LND's dynamic feerate adjustment system (1:24)

Changes to services and client software

● Wally 1.4.0 released (17:17)

● Bitcoin Core Config Generator announced (18:05)

● A regtest development environment container (18:55)

● Explora transaction visualization tool (20:17)

● Hashpool v0.1 tagged (21:35)

● DMND launching pooled mining (24:36)

● Krux adds taproot and miniscript (22:21)

● Source-available secure element announced (23:01)

● Nunchuk launches Group Wallet (45:04)

● FROSTR protocol announced (46:03)

● Bark launches on signet (46:57)

● Cove Bitcoin wallet announced (48:43)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 29.0rc2 (50:38)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #31649 (1:03:19)

● Bitcoin Core #31283 (37:27)

● Eclair #3037 (1:15:29)

● LND #9546 (1:16:33)

● LND #9458 (1:17:17)

● BTCPay Server #6581 (1:18:10)

● BDK #1839 (1:20:59)

● BOLTs #1233 (15:39)