Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #410 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by rkrux, Roland Bewick, and Steven Roose to discuss ⁠Newsletter #410⁠.

News

● Discussion of removing RBF signaling from wallet transactions (0:57)

Changes to services and client software

● Sparrow Wallet 2.5.0 adds silent payments receiving (59:55)

● Bark live on Bitcoin mainnet (29:46)

● Arké Ark wallet announced (32:18)

● Noah Ark wallet announced (31:52)

● Alby Hub v1.23.0 released (15:00)

● JoinMarket NG 0.32.0 released (1:01:02)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #35221 (1:02:13)

● Bitcoin Core #35254 (1:06:59)

● Bitcoin Core #35498 (1:09:26)

● Eclair #3318 (1:11:06)

● LND #10789 (1:13:05)

● Rust Bitcoin #6321 (1:14:09)

● LDK #4685 (1:16:14)