Bitcoin Optech newsletter #338 is here:
- announces a draft BIP for referencing unspendable keys in descriptors
- examines how implementations are using PSBTv2
- corrects in depth our description last week of a new offchain DLC protocol
- summarizes changes to services/client software
- Optech Newsletter #338 Recap on Riverside
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/01/24/
Andrew Toth posted to Delving Bitcoin and the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a draft BIP for referencing provably unspendable keys in descriptors...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/01/24/#draft-bip-for-unspendable-keys-in-descriptors
Sjors Provoost posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list to ask about software that had implemented support for version 2 PSBTs in order to help test a PR adding support for it to Bitcoin Core...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/01/24/#psbtv2-integration-testing
In our description of offchain DLCs in last week’s newsletter, we confused the new scheme proposed by developer conduition with previously published and implemented offchain DLC schemes. There’s a significant and interesting difference...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/01/24/#correction-about-offchain-dlcs
Changes to services and client software:
- Bull Bitcoin Mobile Wallet adds payjoin
- Bitcoin Keeper adds miniscript support
- Nunchuk adds taproot MuSig2 features
- Jade Plus signing device announced
- Coinswap v0.1.0 released
- Bitcoin Safe 1.0.0 released
- Bitcoin Core 28.0 policy demonstration
- Rust-payjoin 0.21.0 released
- PeerSwap v4.0rc1
- Joinpool prototype using CTV
- Rust joinstr library announced
- Strata bridge announced
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/01/24/#changes-to-services-and-client-software
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on Riverside.fm Tuesday at 15:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!