Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #379 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner, PortlandHODL, Tadge Dryja, and Antoine Poinsot to discuss Newsletter #379.

News

● Comparing performance of ECDSA signature validation in OpenSSL vs. libsecp256k1 (1:47)

Changing consensus

● Multiple discussions about restricting data (14:05)

● Post-quantum signature aggregation (1:00:05)

● Native STARK proof verification in Bitcoin Script (1:18:47)

● BIP54 implementation and test vectors (35:47)

Releases and release candidates

● Core Lightning 25.09.2 (1:30:54)

● LND 0.20.0-beta.rc3 (1:31:44)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #31645 (1:32:34)

● Core Lightning #8636 (1:40:08)

● Core Lightning #8639 (1:43:18)

● Core Lightning #8635 (1:44:31)

● Eclair #3209 (1:46:25)

● Eclair #3206 (1:46:59)

● Eclair #3210 (1:49:31)

● LDK #4140 (1:54:13)

● LDK #4168 (1:59:12)

● Rust Bitcoin #5116 (2:01:06)

● BTCPay Server #6922 (2:05:05)