Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #382 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #382⁠.

News

● Stats on compact block reconstructions updates (0:34)

● Motion to activate BIP3 (7:26)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

● Do pruned nodes store witness inscriptions? (24:27)

● Increasing probability of block hash collisions when difficulty is too high (29:33)

● What is the purpose of the initial 0x04 byte in all extended public and private keys? (33:25)

Releases and release candidates

● LND v0.20.0-beta (34:57)

● Core Lightning v25.12rc1 (35:57)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33872 (37:55)

● Bitcoin Core #33629 (42:05)

● Core Lightning #8677 (49:49)

● Core Lightning #8546 (51:28)

● Core Lightning #8682 (53:19)

● LDK #4197 (55:39)

● LDK #4234 (1:00:56)

● LDK #4148 (1:02:17)

● BDK #2027 (1:03:04)