Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #241 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by James O’Beirne and Greg Sanders to discuss Newsletter #241 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/03/08/).

News

• Alternative design for OP_VAULT (0:41)

• New Optech Podcast (23:29)

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club

• Bitcoin-inquisition: Activation logic for testing consensus changes (24:33)

Releases and release candidates

• Core Lightning 23.02 (38:01)

• LDK v0.0.114 (40:00)

• BTCPay 1.8.2 (40:52)

• LND v0.16.0-beta.rc2 (41:40)

Notable code and documentation changes

• LND #7462 (42:48)