Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #306 Recap

Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Fabian Jahr, Anthony Towns, and Matt Corallo to discuss Newsletter #306.

News

• Upcoming disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting old versions of Bitcoin Core (1:02)
• BIP and experimental implementation of testnet4 (10:17)
• Functional encryption covenants (24:58)
• Updates to proposed soft fork for 64-bit arithmetic (31:27)
• `OP_CAT` script to validate proof of work (33:32)
• Proposed update to BIP21 (42:12)

Releases and release candidates

• Core Lightning 24.05rc2 (54:53)
• Bitcoin Core 27.1rc1 (55:51)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Core Lightning #7252 (56:50)
• LDK #2931 (1:02:19)
• Rust Bitcoin #2644 (1:04:11)
• BIPs #1541 (1:05:19)
• BIPs #1556 (1:07:34)
• BLIPs #32 (1:09:28)