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Bitcoin Optech
We provide weekly newsletters, workshops, case studies, and research for the #Bitcoin community.
Matt Morehouse and Salvatore Ingala (@salvatoshi) joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #384:
News
● Critical vulnerabilities fixed in LND 0.19.0 (0:59)
● A virtualized secure enclave for hardware signing devices (21:11)
Changes to services and client software
● Interactive transaction visualization tool (37:16)
● BlueWallet v7.2.2 released (38:20)
● Stratum v2 updates (38:42)
● Auradine announces Stratum v2 support (40:18)
● LDK Node 0.7.0 released (41:58)
● BIP-329 Python Library 1.0.0 release (43:30)
● Bitcoin Safe 1.6.0 released (44:34)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
● Does a clearnet connection to my Lightning node require a TLS certificate? (45:12)
● Why do different implementations produce different DER signatures for the same private key and hash? (45:58)
● Why is the miniscript `after` value limited at 0x80000000? (49:27)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #33528 (53:12)
● Bitcoin Core #33723 (54:17)
● Bitcoin Core #33993 (56:35)
● Bitcoin Core #33553 (59:54)
● Eclair #3220 (1:01:52)
● LDK #4231 (1:02:48)
● LND #10396 (1:05:40)
● BTCPay Server #7022 (1:08:26)
● Rust Bitcoin #5379 (1:09:32)
● BIPs #2050 (1:10:06)
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Moonsettler (@4moonsettler) and Julian (@_julian256_) joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #383:
News
● Consensus bug in NBitcoin library (1:04)
Changing consensus
● LNHANCE soft fork (24:00)
● Benchmarking the varops budget (5:09)
● SLH-DSA (SPHINCS) post-quantum signature optimizations (45:29)
Releases and release candidates
● Core Lightning v25.12 (1:02:24)
● LDK 0.2 (1:03:43)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Core Lightning #8728 (1:05:14)
● Core Lightning #8702 (1:06:55)
● Core Lightning #8735 (1:07:24)
● LDK #4226 (1:11:41)
● LND #10341 (1:12:49)
● BTCPay Server #6986 (1:14:00)
● BIPs #2015 (1:16:18)
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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #383 is here:
- describes a fixed vulnerability affecting the NBitcoin library
- summarizes the LNHANCE soft fork proposal
- relays a call to action to benchmark Bitcoin script execution under GSR's varops budget
- highlights discussion of optimizations to SLH-DSA (SPHINCS) post-quantum signatures
- Optech Newsletter #383 Podcast
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