Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #238 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by AJ Towns, Yuval Kogman, Alex Myers and Vivek Kasarabada to discuss Newsletter #238.

News

• Continued discussion about block chain data storage (1:02)
• Fee dilution in multiparty protocols (27:29)
• Tapscript signature malleability (33:47)

Changes to services and client software

• Liana wallet adds multisig (37:35)
• Sparrow wallet 1.7.2 released (38:46)
• Bitcoinex library adds schnorr support (39:20)
• Libwally 0.8.8 released (39:59)

Optech Recommends

• BitcoinSearch.xyz (40:40)

Releases and release candidates

• Core Lightning 23.02rc2 (42:21)
• BTCPay Server 1.7.11 (47:49)
• BDK 0.27.0 (49:32)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Core Lightning #5361 (49:51)
• Core Lightning #5670 and #5956 (54:45)
• Core Lightning #5697 (56:23)
• Core Lightning #5960 (57:38)
• LND #7171 (58:54)
• LDK #2002 (1:00:01)
• BTCPay Server #4600 (1:00:59)