Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Ruben Somsen, Josie Baker, Matthew Zipkin, and Joost Jager to discuss Newsletter #255.

News

• Discussion about the taproot annex (1:32)
• Draft BIP for silent payments (22:17)

Waiting for confirmation #5: Policy for Protection of Node Resources (41:48)

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club

• Allow inbound whitebind connections to more aggressively evict peers when slots are full (53:38)

Releases and release candidates

• Core Lightning 23.05.1 (1:07:01)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #27501 (1:07:41)
• Core Lightning #6243 (1:11:40)
• Eclair #2677 (1:12:46)
• Rust bitcoin #1890 (1:15:56)