Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Calvin Kim to discuss ⁠Newsletter #302⁠.

News

• Release of utreexod beta (0:56)
• BIP119 extensions for smaller hashes and arbitrary data commitments (20:15)

Releases and release candidates

• LDK v0.0.123 (25:16)
• LND v0.18.0-beta.rc2 (26:08)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #29845 (28:16)
• Core Lightning #7111 (29:34)
• Libsecp256k1 #1518 (32:04)
• Rust Bitcoin #2707 (34:30)
• BIPs #1389 (37:29)
• BIPs #1567 (42:21)
• BIPs #1525 (44:08)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ethan Heilman and Gloria Zhao to discuss ⁠Newsletter #301⁠.

News

• Consensus-enforced lamport signatures on top of ECDSA signatures (1:00)

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club

• Index TxOrphanage by wtxid, allow entries with same txid (31:04)

Releases and release candidates

• Libsecp256k1 v0.5.0 (51:15)
• LND v0.18.0-beta.rc1 (52:12)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #28970 (26:33)
• Bitcoin Core #28016 (53:05)
• Bitcoin Core #29623 (57:00)

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)