Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #386 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns and Mikhail Kudinov to discuss ⁠Newsletter #386⁠.

News

● Building a vault using blinded co-signers (1:04:09)

● Peer feature negotiation (1:40)

Changing consensus

● Year 2106 timestamp overflow uint64 migration (1:07:47)

● Relax BIP54 timestamp restriction for 2106 soft fork (1:11:36)

● Understanding and mitigating a CTV footgun (1:16:30)

● CTV activation meeting (1:21:00)

● `OP_CHECKCONSOLIDATION` to enable cheaper consolidations (1:23:11)

● Hash-based signatures for Bitcoin's post-quantum future (20:47)

Releases and release candidates

● BTCPay Server 2.3.0 (1:28:29)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33657 (1:30:25)

● Bitcoin Core #32414 (1:33:23)

● Bitcoin Core #32545 (1:39:18)

● Bitcoin Core #33892 (1:42:13)

● Core Lightning #8784 (1:44:35)

● LND #9489 (1:45:54)

● BIPs #2051 (1:50:09)

● BOLTs #1299 (1:56:39)

● BOLTs #1305 (1:59:46)