Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #401 Recap

April 22
1h 12m

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Episode Description

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Remix7531 and Luis Schwab to discuss Newsletter #401.


News

● Discussion of using nested MuSig2 in the Lightning Network (34:05)

● Formal verification of secp256k1 modular scalar multiplication (01:10)


Changes to services and client software

● Coldcard 6.5.0 adds MuSig2 and miniscript (40:56)

● Frigate 1.4.0 released (41:46)

● Bitcoin Backbone updates (47:10)

● Utreexod 0.5 released (16:18)

● Floresta 0.9.0 released (19:41)


Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 31.0rc4 (48:01)

● Core Lightning 26.04rc3 (49:00)


Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #34401 (50:01)

● Bitcoin Core #35032 (51:51)

● Core Lightning #9021 (55:33)

● Core Lightning #9046 (56:53)

● LDK #4515 (58:25)

● LDK #4558 (59:51)

● LND #9985 (1:01:53)

● BTCPay Server #7250 (1:04:07)

● BIPs #2089 (1:07:28)


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