Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #381 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot and ZmnSCPxj to discuss Newsletter #381.

News

● Modeling stale rates by propagation delay and mining centralization (1:03)

● Private key handover for collaborative closure (30:55)

Changes to services and client software

● Arkade launches (52:32)

● Mempool monitoring mobile application (55:25)

● Web-based policy and miniscript IDE (56:25)

● Phoenix Wallet adds taproot channels (57:45)

● Nunchuk 2.0 launches (59:19)

● LN gossip traffic analysis tool announced (1:01:49)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33745 (1:04:23)

● Core Lightning #8537 (1:09:28)

● Core Lightning #8608 (1:11:26)

● Core Lightning #8646 (1:13:34)

● Core Lightning #8569 (1:17:44)

● Core Lightning #8558 (1:22:46)

● LDK #4126 (1:24:11)

● LDK #4208 (1:26:37)

● LND #9432 (1:27:58)

● BOLTs #1284 (1:31:38)

● BOLTs #1044 (1:33:33)