Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #294 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner, Anthony Towns, and Russell O’Connor to discuss ⁠Newsletter #294⁠.

News

• BIP324 proxy for light clients (1:20)
• Overview of BTC Lisp (10:44)

Changes to services and client software

• BitGo adds RBF support (38:59)
• Phoenix Wallet v2.2.0 released (40:11)
• Bitkey hardware signing device released (44:19)
• Envoy v1.6.0 released (47:49)
• VLS v0.11.0 released (49:22)
• Portal hardware signing device announced (50:54)
• Braiins mining pool adds Lightning support (51:44)
• Ledger Bitcoin App 2.2.0 released (54:14)

Releases and release candidates

• Bitcoin Core 26.1rc2 (55:51)
• Bitcoin Core 27.0rc1 (56:48)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #27375 (57:43)
• Bitcoin Core #27114 (58:59)
• Bitcoin Core #29306 (1:02:19)
• LND #8310 (1:09:04)
• Rust Bitcoin #2458 (1:10:12)