Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #252 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Robin Linus, and Lukas George to discuss Newsletter #252.

News

• State compression with zero-knowledge validity proofs (1:05)

Waiting for confirmation #2: Incentives (19:00)

Changes to services and client software

• Passport firmware 2.1.1 released (37:19)
• MuSig wallet Munstr released (37:40)
• CLN plugin manager Coffee released (38:49)
• Electrum 4.4.3 released (40:01)
• Trezor Suite adds coinjoin support (40:32)
• Lightning Loop defaults to MuSig2 (41:18)
• Mutinynet announces new signet for testing (42:40)
• Nunchuk adds coin control, BIP329 support (44:55)
• MyCitadel Wallet adds enhanced miniscript support (45:22)
• Edge Firmware for Coldcard announced (47:08)

Releases and release candidates

• Core Lightning 23.05 (49:54)
• Bitcoin Core 23.2 (52:20)
• Bitcoin Core 24.1 (52:20)
• Bitcoin Core 25.0rc2 (54:06)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #27021 (56:48)
• LND #7668 (59:37)
• LDK #2204 (1:00:50)
• LDK #1841 (1:02:12)
• BIPs #1412 (1:03:35)