Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #424 Recap

Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ahmet Kurt and Jan B to discuss Newsletter #424.

News

● Proposal for a post-quantum Lightning Network (1:10)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

● What would be a drawback if sum instead of SHA256 of amounts was used in the taproot signature message? (36:18)

● Post-BIP110 fork is it necessary to resync from block 0? (39:32)

● Can a Bitcoin node build a partial UTXO set from only the most recent blocks and use it to validate new transactions? (42:16)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 32.0rc2 (21:13)

● Core Lightning 26.06.8 (45:36)

● LDK v0.3-rc2 (47:15)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #34566 (51:31)

● BIPs #1951 (54:14)

● BIPs #2224 (57:45)

● Core Lightning #9507 (1:02:00)

● Core Lightning #9508 (1:07:35)

● Core Lightning #9509 (1:12:02)

● Core Lightning #9510 (1:16:03)

● Core Lightning #9513 (1:20:01)

● LND #11198 (1:21:47)

● LND #11146 (1:24:15)

● LND #11132 (1:27:20)