Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Niklas Gögge, Antoine Riard, Abubakar Sadiq Ismail, Gloria Zhao, Salvatore Ingala, Johan Torås Halseth and SeedHammer Team to discuss Newsletter #283.

News

• Disclosure of past LND vulnerabilities (2:07)
• Fee-dependent timelocks (25:09)
• Cluster fee estimation (8:32)
• How to specify unspendable keys in descriptors (17:48)
• V3 transaction pinning costs (34:14)
• Descriptors in PSBT draft BIP (48:19)
• Verification of arbitrary programs using proposed opcode from MATT (57:52)
• Pool exit payment batching with delegation using fraud proofs (1:04:59)
• New coin selection strategies (1:14:36)

Releases and release candidates

• Core Lightning 23.11.2 (1:17:57)
• Libsecp256k1 0.4.1 (1:18:14)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #28349 (1:19:06)
• Core Lightning #6957 (1:20:21)
• Core Lightning #6869 (1:21:15)
• Eclair #2796 (1:21:47)
• Eclair #2787 (1:22:23)
• LDK #2781 (1:23:14)
• LDK #2723 (1:24:16)
• BIPs #1504 (1:25:00)