Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, Niklas Gögge, Gloria Zhao, and Rearden to discuss ⁠Newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special⁠.

January

• Fee-dependent timelocks (16:18)
• Optimized contract protocol exits (17:20)
• LN-Symmetry proof-of-concept implementation (18:22)

February

• Replace by feerate (22:32)
• Human-readable payment instructions (27:25)
• Improved ASMap generation (28:09)
• LN dual funding (32:33)
• Trustless betting on future feerates (32:56)

Summary 2024: Vulnerability disclosures (7:05)

March

• BINANAs and BIPs (33:33)
• Enhanced feerate estimation (34:41)
• More efficient transaction sponsorship (46:08)

April

• Consensus cleanup (50:06)
• Reforming the BIPs process (51:08)
• Inbound routing fees (53:10)
• Weak blocks (54:01)
• Restarting testnet (57:43)
• Developers arrested (1:00:06)

Summary 2024: Cluster mempool (1:01:10)

May

• Silent payments (1:06:51)
• BitVMX (1:07:37)
• Anonymous usage tokens (1:09:50)
• LN channel upgrades (1:12:00)
• Ecash for pool miners (1:13:33)
• Miniscript specification (1:14:54)
• Utreexo beta (1:16:16)

June

• LN payment feasibility and channel depletion (1:18:17)
• Quantum-resistant transaction signing (1:20:02)

Summary 2024: P2P transaction relay (1:20:39)

July

• Blinded paths for BOLT11 invoices (1:31:07)
• ChillDKG key generation for threshold signatures (1:31:47)
• BIPs for MuSig and threshold signatures (1:32:18)

August

• Hyperion network simulator (1:33:00)
• Full RBF (1:33:56)

Summary 2024: Covenants and script upgrades (2:08)

September

• Hybrid jamming mitigation tests and tweaks (1:35:10)
• Shielded CSV (1:38:40)
• LN offline payments (1:41:22)

October

• BOLT12 offers (1:42:34)
• Mining interfaces, block withholding, and share validation cost (1:43:13)

Summary 2024: Major releases of popular infrastructure projects (1:50:41)

November

• SuperScalar timeout tree channel factories (1:51:19)
• Fast and cheap low-value offchain payment resolution (1:53:29)

Summary 2024: Bitcoin Optech (1:55:17)