Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse, Johan Halseth, Pieter Wuille, Sergi Delgado, Bastien Teinturier, Oleksandr Kurbatov, Antoine Poinsot and Bob McElrath to discuss Newsletter #340.
News
● Channel force closure vulnerability in LDK (2:14)
● Zero-knowledge gossip for LN channel announcements (16:01)
● Discovery of previous research for finding optimal cluster linearization (26:29)
● Erlay update (46:38)
● Tradeoffs in LN ephemeral anchor scripts (1:09:50)
● Emulating OP_RAND (1:30:30)
● Discussion about lowering the minimum transaction relay feerate (1:36:33)
Changing consensus
● Updates to cleanup soft fork proposal (1:43:46)
● Request for a covenant design supporting Braidpool (2:28:59)
● Deterministic transaction selection from a committed mempool (2:04:52)
● Fast difficulty adjustment algorithm for a DAG blockchain (2:19:24)
Releases and release candidates
● BDK Wallet 1.1.0 (2:39:15)
● LND v0.18.5-beta.rc1 (2:39:43)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #21590 (38:58)
● Eclair #2983 (1:23:30)
● Eclair #2968 (1:27:53)
● LDK #3556 (2:40:31)
● LND #9456 (2:41:10)