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)