Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #222 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by John Light and Gregory Sanders to discuss Newsletter #222 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/10/19/).

News

• Block parsing bug affecting BTCD and LND (0:10)

• Transaction replacement option (5:34)

• Validity rollups research (18:02)

• MuSig2 security vulnerability (52:00)

• Minimum relayable transaction size (55:55)

• BIP324 update (1:01:52)

Changes to services and client software

• btcd v0.23.2 released (1:05:30)

• ZEBEDEE announces hosted channel libraries (1:06:30)

• Cashu launches with Lightning support (1:08:47)

• Address explorer Spiral launches (1:13:10)

• BitGo announces Lightning support (1:16:15)

• ZeroSync project launches (1:17:42)

Releases and release candidates

• Bitcoin Core 24.0 RC2 (1:20:16)

• LND 0.15.3-beta (1:21:22)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #23549 (1:21:38)

• Bitcoin Core #25412 (1:23:29)

• LND #6956 (1:23:49)

• LND #7004 (1:25:31)

• LDK #1625 (1:25:54)