Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #384 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse and Salvatore Ingala 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)