Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Carla Kirk-Cohen, Severin Bühler, and Dan Gould to discuss Newsletter #251.
News
- Testing HTLC endorsement (1:33)
- Request for feedback on proposed specifications for LSPs (14:52)
- Challenges with zero-conf channels when dual funding (20:59)
- Advanced payjoin applications (24:51)
- Summaries of Bitcoin Core developers in-person meeting (37:35)
Waiting for confirmation #1: why do we have a mempool? (51:07)
Releases and release candidates
- Libsecp256k1 0.3.2 (1:04:21)
- Core Lightning 23.05rc2 (1:05:07)
- Bitcoin Core 23.2rc1 (1:05:20)
- Bitcoin Core 24.1rc3 (1:05:20)
- Bitcoin Core 25.0rc2 (1:05:20)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #26076 (1:06:10)
- Bitcoin Core #27608 (1:07:20)
- LDK #2286 (1:08:27)
- LDK #1794 (1:08:47)
- Rust Bitcoin #1844 (1:09:08)
- Rust Bitcoin #1837 (1:11:33)
- BOLTs #1075 (1:12:04)
