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Bitcoin Optech PodcastBitcoin Optech: Newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special RecapMark “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...2024-12-231h 59
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Waiting for confirmation #10: Get Involved (2:01)
Changes to services and client software
Wallet 10101 beta testing pooling funds between LN and DLCs (14:56)
LDK Node announced (17:14)
Payjoin SDK announced (20:09)
Validating Lightning Signer (VLS) beta announced (25:27)
BitGo adds MuSig2 support (37:42)
Peach adds RBF support (44:34)
Phoenix wallet adds splicing support (46:34)
Mining Development Kit call for feedback (49:27)
Binance adds Lightning support (51:33)
Nunchuk adds CPFP support (53:35)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #27411 (54:57)
Core Lightning #6347 (58:07)
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