Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #319 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Filippo Merli, Lorenzo Bonazzi, Matt Corallo, Eric Voskuil, and rkrux to discuss ⁠Newsletter #319⁠.

News

• Stratum v2 extension for fee revenue sharing (1:49)
• OP_CAT research fund (17:53)
• Mitigating merkle tree vulnerabilities (22:43)

Releases and release candidates

• Core Lightning 24.08 (55:21)
• LDK 0.0.124 (57:59)
• LND v0.18.3-beta.rc2 (1:06:19)
• BDK 1.0.0-beta.2 (1:06:43)
• Bitcoin Core 28.0rc1 (1:07:27)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #30454 (1:15:05)
• Bitcoin Core #22838 (1:17:41)
• Eclair #2865 (1:19:56)
• LND #9009 (1:21:49)
• LDK #3268 (1:23:33)
• BIPs #1657 (1:26:55)