Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #238 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by AJ Towns, Yuval Kogman, Alex Myers and Vivek Kasarabada to discuss Newsletter #238 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/02/15/).

News

• Continued discussion about block chain data storage (1:02)

• Fee dilution in multiparty protocols (27:29)

• Tapscript signature malleability (33:47)

Changes to services and client software

• Liana wallet adds multisig (37:35)

• Sparrow wallet 1.7.2 released (38:46)

• Bitcoinex library adds schnorr support (39:20)

• Libwally 0.8.8 released (39:59)

Optech Recommends

• BitcoinSearch.xyz (40:40)

Releases and release candidates

• Core Lightning 23.02rc2 (42:21)

• BTCPay Server 1.7.11 (47:49)

• BDK 0.27.0 (49:32)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Core Lightning #5361 (49:51)

• Core Lightning #5670 and #5956 (54:45)

• Core Lightning #5697 (56:23)

• Core Lightning #5960 (57:38)

• LND #7171 (58:54)

• LDK #2002 (1:00:01)

• BTCPay Server #4600 (1:00:59)