Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #412 Recap Podcast

Changing consensus

• ● Benchmarking SLH-DSA STARK aggregation (1:051:05)

• ● Bird of Prey 2 (BoP-2) non-malleable schnorr and PQ signatures (10:2110:21)

• ● Lattice-based signatures (19:4119:41)

• ● Public key recovery for P2MR EC leaves (25:5025:50)

• ● Aligning privacy incentives in P2MR (30:4830:48)

• ● Prohibit merkle internal node preimages that encode minimal 64-byte transactions (49:3849:38)

• ● Triggering EC disabling with a NUMS point spend or hashrate majority (37:3637:36)

Releases and release candidates

• ● Bitcoin Core 31.1rc1 (1:32:431:32:43)

• ● Bitcoin Core 30.3rc1 (1:32:481:32:48)

• ● Bitcoin Core 29.4rc1 (1:32:521:32:52)

• ● Core Lightning v26.06.2 (1:36:011:36:01)

• ● LND v0.20.2-beta.rc1 (1:36:391:36:39)

• ● LND v0.21.1-beta (1:38:101:38:10)

• ● LDK v0.2.4 (1:38:571:38:57)

Notable code and documentation changes

• ● Bitcoin Core #35266 (1:40:001:40:00)

• ● Bitcoin Core #35550 (1:41:101:41:10)

• ● Bitcoin Core #35610 (1:42:151:42:15)

• ● BIPs #2196 (1:43:521:43:52)

• ● BIPs #2165 (1:47:461:47:46)

• ● BIPs #2201 (1:50:131:50:13)

• ● LND #10900 (1:51:201:51:20)

• ● LND #10927 (1:52:371:52:37)

• ● LDK #4748 (1:54:131:54:13)