Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bryan Bishop, Robin Linus, and Rene Pickhardt to discuss Newsletter #359.

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News

• ● Proposal to restrict access to Bitcoin Core Project discussion (1:11)

• ● Improvements to BitVM-style contracts (21:17)

• ● Channel rebalancing research (41:57)

Changes to services and client software

• ● Cove v1.0.0 released (1:03:58)

• ● Liana v11.0 released (1:04:59)

• ● Stratum v2 STARK proof demo (1:06:48)

• ● Breez SDK adds BOLT12 and BIP353 (1:08:41)

Releases and release candidates

• ● Core Lightning 25.05 (1:09:51)

Notable code and documentation changes

• ● Eclair #3110 (1:11:32)

• ● Eclair #3101 (1:12:41)

• ● LDK #3817 (1:13:35)

• ● LDK #3623 (1:14:04)

• ● BTCPay Server #6755 (1:15:11)

• ● Rust libsecp256k1 #798 (1:15:54)

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