Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #230 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ben Carman and Joost Jager to discuss Newsletter #230. News Factory-optimized LN protocol proposal (2:34) Local jamming to prevent remote jamming (9:28) Monitoring of full-RBF replacements (29:17) Changes to services and client software Lily Wallet adds coin selection (38:57) Vortex software creates LN channels from a coinjoin (41:42) Mutiny demonstrates LN node in a browser PoC (49:31) Coinkite launches BinaryWatch.org (55:02) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange Why is connecting to the Bitcoin network exclusively over Tor considered a bad practice? (57:46) Why aren't 3 party (or more) channels realistically possible in Lightning today? (1:01:38) With legacy wallets deprecated, will Bitcoin Core be able to sign messages for an address? (1:06:14) How do I set up a time-decay multisig? (1:09:07) When is a miniscript solution malleable? (1:11:01) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Core 24.0.1 (1:14:02) libsecp256k1 0.2.0 (1:14:30) Core Lightning 22.11.1 (1:15:26) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #25934 (1:16:24) LND #7159 (1:17:10) LDK #1835 (1:17:38) BOLTs #1021 (1:21:28)