Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Toby Sharp, Chris Hyunhum Cho, Jonas Nick, and Antoine Poinsot to discuss Newsletter #391.

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News

• ● A constant-time parallelized UTXO database (25:40)

• ● Bithoven: A formally verified, imperative language for Bitcoin Script (44:48)

• ● Discussion of dust attack mitigations (1:43:33)

Changing consensus

• ● SHRINCS: 324-byte stateful post-quantum signatures with static backups (1:30)

• ● Addressing remaining points on BIP54 (1:10:08)

• ● Falcon post-quantum signature scheme proposal (20:05)

• ● SLH-DSA verification can compete with ECC (23:28)

Releases and release candidates

• ● LDK 0.1.9 (1:50:27)

Notable code and documentation changes

• ● Bitcoin Core #33604 (1:53:10)

• ● Bitcoin Core #34358 (1:54:58)

• ● Core Lightning #8824 (1:56:20)

• ● Eclair #3244 (1:58:17)

• ● LDK #4263 (2:00:07)

• ● LDK #4300 (2:01:54)

• ● LND #10473 (2:03:57)

• ● Rust Bitcoin #5493 (2:07:36)

Transcription

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