Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Armin Sabouri, Pyth, Conduition, and Jonas Nick to discuss Newsletter #399.

The Bitcoin Optech Podcast and transcription content is licensed Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0

News

• ● Wallet fingerprinting risks for payjoin privacy (44:15)

• ● Draft BIP for a wallet backup metadata format (1:04:26)

Changing consensus

• ● Compact Isogeny PQC can replace HD wallets, key-tweaking, silent payments (24:23)

• ● Varops budget and tapscript leaf 0xc2 (aka Script Restoration) are BIPs 440 and 441 (1:13:24)

• ● SHRIMPS: 2.5 KB post-quantum signatures across multiple stateful devices (02:02)

Releases and release candidates

• ● Bitcoin Core 31.0rc2 (1:22:07)

• ● Core Lightning 26.04rc2 (1:23:32)

• ● BTCPay Server 2.3.7 (1:24:04)

Notable code and documentation changes

• ● Bitcoin Core #32297 (1:26:29)

• ● Bitcoin Core #34379 (1:28:54)

• ● Eclair #3269 (1:30:37)

• ● LDK #4486 (1:32:59)

• ● LDK #4428 (1:35:00)

• ● LND #9982 (1:37:13)

• ● LND #10063 (1:39:00)

Transcription

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