Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #335 Recap

Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Yuval Kogman, Jeremy Rubin, and Steve Myers to discuss ⁠Newsletter #335⁠.

News

• Deanonymization attacks against centralized coinjoin (1:39)
• Updated ChillDKG draft (14:09)

Changing consensus

• CTV enhancement opcodes (18:41)
• Adjusting difficulty beyond 256 bits (31:52)
• Transitory soft forks for cleanup soft forks (33:44)
• Quantum computer upgrade path (48:09)
• Consensus cleanup timewarp grace period (56:10)

Releases and release candidates

• BDK wallet-1.0.0 (1:06:44)
• LND 0.18.4-beta (1:17:28)
• Core Lightning v24.11.1 (1:18:13)
• Bitcoin Core 28.1rc2 (1:18:47)
• LDK v0.1.0-beta1 (1:19:37)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #31223 (1:20:19)
• Eclair #2888 (1:21:09)
• LDK #3495 (1:22:35)
• LDK #3436 (1:24:31)
• LDK #3435 (1:25:02)
• LDK #3365 (1:26:04)
• LDK #3340 (1:26:41)
• BDK #1670 (1:28:47)
• BIPs #1689 (1:31:45)
• BIPs #1697 (1:33:49)
• BLIPs #52 (1:34:21)
• BLIPs #54 (1:35:40)