Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bob McElrath and moonsettler to discuss ⁠Newsletter #317⁠.

News

• Simple (but imperfect) anti-exfiltration protocol (0:53)

Changes to services and client software

• Proton Wallet announced (23:33)
• CPUNet testnet announced (25:38)
• Lightning.Pub launches (38:52)
• Taproot Assets v0.4.0-alpha released (39:45)
• Stratum v2 benchmarking tool released (41:31)
• STARK verification PoC on signet (42:52)
• SeedSigner 0.8.0 released (48:48)
• Floresta 0.6.0 released (50:25)

Releases and release candidates

• Core Lightning 24.08rc2 (51:52)
• LND v0.18.3-beta.rc1 (52:33)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #28553 (53:18)
• Bitcoin Core #30246 (56:39)
• Bitcoin Core GUI #824 (1:02:10)
• Core Lightning #7540 (1:04:20)
• Core Lightning #7403 (1:05:20)
• LND #8943 (1:06:13)
• BDK #1478 (1:07:26)
• BDK #1533 (1:08:12)
• BOLTs #1182 (1:11:49)
• BLIPs #39 (1:12:55)