Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #293 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj, Anthony Towns, and Armin Sabouri to discuss Newsletter #293.

News

• Trustless onchain betting on potential soft forks (1:11)
• Overview of Chia Lisp for Bitcoiners (14:06)

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club

• Re enable `OP_CAT` (35:48)

Releases and release candidates

• Core Lightning v24.02.1 (50:33)
• Bitcoin Core 26.1rc1 (51:03)
• Bitcoin Core 27.0rc1 (52:11)

Notable code and documentation changes

• LND #8136 (54:58)
• LND #8499 (57:26)
• LDK #2916 (58:31)