Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #300 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Tadge Dryja to discuss ⁠Newsletter #300⁠.

News

• CTV-like exploding keys proposal (0:59)
• Analyzing a contract protocol with Alloy (13:07)
• Arrests of Bitcoin developers (22:37)
• CoreDev.tech Berlin event (28:53)

Releases and release candidates

• Bitcoin Inquisition 25.2 (31:35)
• LND v0.18.0-beta.rc1 (35:59)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #27679 (36:48)
• Core Lightning #7240 (39:39)
• Eclair #2851 (44:02)
• LND #8147 (45:49)
• LND #8627 (47:37)
• Libsecp256k1 #1058 (1:00:01)
• BIPs #1382 (1:02:01)
• BIPs #1068 (1:03:35)