Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, Niklas Gögge, Gloria Zhao, and Rearden to discuss Newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special.
January
- Fee-dependent timelocks (16:18)
- Optimized contract protocol exits (17:20)
- LN-Symmetry proof-of-concept implementation (18:22)
February
- Replace by feerate (22:32)
- Human-readable payment instructions (27:25)
- Improved ASMap generation (28:09)
- LN dual funding (32:33)
- Trustless betting on future feerates (32:56)
Summary 2024: Vulnerability disclosures (7:05)
March
- BINANAs and BIPs (33:33)
- Enhanced feerate estimation (34:41)
- More efficient transaction sponsorship (46:08)
April
- Consensus cleanup (50:06)
- Reforming the BIPs process (51:08)
- Inbound routing fees (53:10)
- Weak blocks (54:01)
- Restarting testnet (57:43)
- Developers arrested (1:00:06)
Summary 2024: Cluster mempool (1:01:10)
May
- Silent payments (1:06:51)
- BitVMX (1:07:37)
- Anonymous usage tokens (1:09:50)
- LN channel upgrades (1:12:00)
- Ecash for pool miners (1:13:33)
- Miniscript specification (1:14:54)
- Utreexo beta (1:16:16)
June
- LN payment feasibility and channel depletion (1:18:17)
- Quantum-resistant transaction signing (1:20:02)
Summary 2024: P2P transaction relay (1:20:39)
July
- Blinded paths for BOLT11 invoices (1:31:07)
- ChillDKG key generation for threshold signatures (1:31:47)
- BIPs for MuSig and threshold signatures (1:32:18)
August
- Hyperion network simulator (1:33:00)
- Full RBF (1:33:56)
Summary 2024: Covenants and script upgrades (2:08)
September
- Hybrid jamming mitigation tests and tweaks (1:35:10)
- Shielded CSV (1:38:40)
- LN offline payments (1:41:22)
October
- BOLT12 offers (1:42:34)
- Mining interfaces, block withholding, and share validation cost (1:43:13)
Summary 2024: Major releases of popular infrastructure projects (1:50:41)
November
- SuperScalar timeout tree channel factories (1:51:19)
- Fast and cheap low-value offchain payment resolution (1:53:29)
Summary 2024: Bitcoin Optech (1:55:17)
