Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #396 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonathan Harvey-Buschel to discuss ⁠Newsletter #396⁠.

News

● Collision-resistant hash function for Bitcoin Script (0:30)

● Continued discussion of Gossip Observer traffic analysis tool (8:58)

Releases and release candidates

● BDK wallet 3.0.0-rc.1 (28:04)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #26988 (30:39)

● Bitcoin Core #34692 (32:22)

● LDK #4304 (33:21)

● LDK #4416 (35:41)

● LND #10089 (38:01)

● Libsecp256k1 #1777 (39:46)

● BIPs #2047 (42:39)

● BOLTs #1316 (46:42)

● BOLTs #1312 (47:26)