Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #370 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Russell O’Connor, Olaoluwa Osuntokun, and Jeremy Rubin to discuss Newsletter #370.

Changing consensus

● Details about the design of Simplicity (37:56)

● Draft BIP for adding elliptic curve operations to tapscript (1:52)

● Draft BIP for OP_TWEAKADD (19:23)

Releases and release candidates

● Core Lightning v25.09 (59:40)

● Bitcoin Core 29.1rc2 (1:00:24)

Notable code and documentation changes

● LDK #3726 (1:00:55)

● LDK #4019 (1:02:24)

● LND #9455 (1:03:09)

● LND #10103 (1:04:00)

● HWI #795 (1:05:20)