Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #421 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by average_gary, Erick Cestari, Conduition, and Greg Sanders to discuss Newsletter #421.

News

● Using silent payments for miner payouts in coinbase transaction (2:19)

● Responsible disclosure of a denial-of-service vulnerability in CLN (27:42)

Changing consensus

● Continued discussion of PQC output types (54:03)

● DropKick commit/reveal PQC rescue (1:14:08)

● SHRINCS draft BIP (1:35:48)

● BIP448 and CSFS/CTV demos and applications (37:55)

Releases and release candidates

● Core Lightning 26.06.7 (1:51:35)

● LND v0.21.3-beta (1:55:32)

● LND v0.20.4-beta (1:55:37)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #36111 (1:58:21)

● Bitcoin Core #36032 (2:01:17)

● Core Lightning #9435 (2:04:52)

● Eclair #3368 (2:08:10)

● Eclair #3366 (2:10:54)

● LND #11090 (2:14:55)

● LND #11140 (2:20:33)

● HWI #792 (2:23:55)

● BDK #2262 (2:25:48)