Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #372 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj and Constantine Doumanidis to discuss Newsletter #372.

News

● LSP-funded redundant overpayments (16:24)

● Partitioning and eclipse attacks using BGP interception (1:02)

Changes to services and client software

● Zero-knowledge proof of reserve tool (13:49)

● Alternative submarine swap protocol proof of concept (15:12)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 30.0rc1 (39:14)

● BDK Chain 0.23.2 (1:16:28)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33268 (1:17:19)

● Eclair #3157 (1:18:56)

● LND #9975 (1:19:52)

● LND #9677 (1:20:21)

● LDK #4045 (1:20:41)

● LDK #4049 (1:20:32)

● BDK #1582 (1:22:18)

● BDK #2000 (1:23:13)

● BDK #2028 (1:24:17)