Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #418 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Michael Ford (fanquake) and Martin Zumsande to discuss ⁠Newsletter #418⁠.

News

● Message transfer failure (33:07)

● Static Bitcoin Core binaries available for testing (1:19)

● Replacing per-peer transaction rate-limiting with global rate limits (18:44)

Releases and release candidates

● BTCPay Server 2.4.2 (43:16)

● LND v0.21.2-beta (45:45)

● LND v0.20.3-beta (45:45)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #35493 (48:10)

● Core Lightning #9150 (50:57)

● BIPs #2248 (54:13)

● BIPs #2225 (56:07)

● Eclair #3346 (58:50)

● Eclair #3341 (1:02:22)

● LND #11019 (1:05:18)

● LND #11023 (1:09:03)

● Libsecp256k1 #1904 (1:11:49)

● HWI #839 (1:13:58)