Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #298⁠.

News

• What would have happened if cluster mempool had been deployed a year ago? (0:42)

Changes to services and client software

• Phoenix for server announced (19:26)
• Mercury Layer adds Lightning swaps (21:32)
• Stratum V2 Reference Implementation v1.0.0 released (22:46)
• Teleport Transactions update (25:09)
• Bitcoin Keeper v1.2.1 released (28:10)
• BIP-329 label management software (29:02)
• Key agent Sigbash launches (31:37)

Releases and release candidates

• Bitcoin Core 27.0 (35:19)
• BTCPay Server 1.13.1 (41:50)
• LDK 0.0.122 (42:55)

Notable code and documentation changes

• LDK #2704 (44:40)