Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #234 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by James O’Beirne to discuss Newsletter #234 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/01/18/).

News

• Proposal for new vault-specific opcodes (1:48)

Changes to services and client software

• Kraken announces sending to taproot addresses (53:01)

• Whirlpool coinjoin rust client library announced (53:45)

• Ledger supports miniscript (54:25)

• Liana wallet released (55:11)

• Electrum 4.3.3 released (58:40)

Releases and release candidates

• HWI 2.2.0 (1:00:04)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Core Lightning #5751 (1:02:54)

• BIPs #1378 (1:06:23)