Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #423 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Davidson Souza, Eric Price, and PortlandHODL to discuss ⁠Newsletter #423⁠.

News

● Vardiff controllers that strand slowing miners (23:06)

● Improvements in Utreexo initial block download (1:18)

● New BIP draft for unspendable internal keys (1:17:51)

Changes to services and client software

● BitBoxApp adds Spark-based Lightning payments (1:24:09)

● Covenants.diy script editor (1:28:40)

● EntropyLab offline key calculator (59:46)

Releases and release candidates

● Eclair 0.14.3 (1:31:10)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #35445 (1:33:34)

● Bitcoin Core #36076 (1:38:51)

● Bitcoin Core #36150 (1:42:18)

● Bitcoin Core #36174 (1:44:37)

● Bitcoin Core #34743 (1:46:13)

● Bitcoin Core #36081 (1:48:07)

● Bitcoin Core #35975 (1:48:59)

● BIPs #2241 (1:50:04)

● BIPs #2258 (1:53:09)

● Eclair #3380 (1:56:33)

● Eclair #3376 (1:57:37)

● Eclair #3372 (2:04:34)

● LND #11163 (2:05:57)

● BDK #2246 (2:07:44)