Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #214 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Riard and Rodolfo Novak to discuss Newsletter #214 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/08/24/).

News

• Overview of channel jamming attacks and mitigations (28:08)

• Updated silent payments PR (2:00)

Changes to services and client software

• Purse.io adds Lightning support (10:05)

• Proof of concept coinjoin implementation joinstr (12:14)

• Coldcard firmware 5.0.6 released (14:48)

• Nunchuk adds taproot support (20:26)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #25504 (47:46)

• Eclair #2234 (49:10)

• LDK #1503 (50:03)

• LND #6596 (53:30)

• BOLTs #1004 (54:05)