Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #423 Recap Podcast

News

• ● Vardiff controllers that strand slowing miners (23:0623:06)

• ● Improvements in Utreexo initial block download (1:181:18)

• ● New BIP draft for unspendable internal keys (1:17:511:17:51)

Changes to services and client software

• ● BitBoxApp adds Spark-based Lightning payments (1:24:091:24:09)

• ● Covenants.diy script editor (1:28:401:28:40)

• ● EntropyLab offline key calculator (59:4659:46)

Releases and release candidates

• ● Eclair 0.14.3 (1:31:101:31:10)

Notable code and documentation changes

• ● Bitcoin Core #35445 (1:33:341:33:34)

• ● Bitcoin Core #36076 (1:38:511:38:51)

• ● Bitcoin Core #36150 (1:42:181:42:18)

• ● Bitcoin Core #36174 (1:44:371:44:37)

• ● Bitcoin Core #34743 (1:46:131:46:13)

• ● Bitcoin Core #36081 (1:48:071:48:07)

• ● Bitcoin Core #35975 (1:48:591:48:59)

• ● BIPs #2241 (1:50:041:50:04)

• ● BIPs #2258 (1:53:091:53:09)

• ● Eclair #3380 (1:56:331:56:33)

• ● Eclair #3376 (1:57:371:57:37)

• ● Eclair #3372 (2:04:342:04:34)

• ● LND #11163 (2:05:572:05:57)

• ● BDK #2246 (2:07:442:07:44)