Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, /dev/fd0, and Gloria Zhao to discuss Newsletter #333.
News
- Vulnerability allowing theft from LN channels with miner assistance (1:11)
- Deanonymization vulnerability affecting Wasabi and related software (12:00)
- Insights into channel depletion (18:12)
- Poll of opinions about covenant proposals (31:14)
- Incentive-based pseudo-covenants (41:49)
- Bitcoin Core developer meeting summaries (46:45)
Bitcoin Core PR Review Club
- Track and use all potential peers for orphan resolution (48:18)
Changes to services and client software
- Java-based HWI released (1:00:32)
- Saving Satoshi Bitcoin development education game announced (1:01:24)
- Neovim Bitcoin Script plugin (1:02:19)
- Proton Wallet adds RBF (1:03:36)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- How long does Bitcoin Core store forked chains? (1:03:51)
- What is the point of solo mining pools? (1:05:02)
- Is there a point to using P2TR over P2WSH if I only want to use the script path? (1:11:17)
Releases and release candidates
- Core Lightning 24.11 (1:13:23)
- BTCPay Server 2.0.4 (1:16:59)
- LND 0.18.4-beta.rc2 (1:17:23)
- Bitcoin Core 28.1RC1 (1:17:44)
- BDK 1.0.0-beta.6 (1:18:36)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #31096 (1:18:58)
- Bitcoin Core #31175 (1:19:51)
- Bitcoin Core #31112 (1:21:37)
- LDK #3446 (1:22:56)
- Rust Bitcoin #3682 (1:26:13)
- BTCPay Server #5743 (1:27:17)
- BDK #1756 (1:30:23)
- BIPs #1535 (1:31:12)
- BOLTs #1180 (1:32:33)
