Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #333 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, /dev/fd0, and Gloria Zhao to discuss Newsletter #333. News Vulnerability allowing theft from LN channels with miner assistance (1:11) Deanonymization vulnerability affecting Wasabi and related software (12:00) Insights into channel depletion (18:12) Poll of opinions about covenant proposals (31:14) Incentive-based pseudo-covenants (41:49) Bitcoin Core developer meeting summaries (46:45) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Track and use all potential peers for orphan resolution (48:18) Changes to services and client software Java-based HWI released (1:00:32) Saving Satoshi Bitcoin development education game announced (1:01:24) Neovim Bitcoin Script plugin (1:02:19) Proton Wallet adds RBF (1:03:36) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange How long does Bitcoin Core store forked chains? (1:03:51) What is the point of solo mining pools? (1:05:02) Is there a point to using P2TR over P2WSH if I only want to use the script path? (1:11:17) Releases and release candidates Core Lightning 24.11 (1:13:23) BTCPay Server 2.0.4 (1:16:59) LND 0.18.4-beta.rc2 (1:17:23) Bitcoin Core 28.1RC1 (1:17:44) BDK 1.0.0-beta.6 (1:18:36) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #31096 (1:18:58) Bitcoin Core #31175 (1:19:51) Bitcoin Core #31112 (1:21:37) LDK #3446 (1:22:56) Rust Bitcoin #3682 (1:26:13) BTCPay Server #5743 (1:27:17) BDK #1756 (1:30:23) BIPs #1535 (1:31:12) BOLTs #1180 (1:32:33)