Bitcoin Optak Review

Software Releases and Project Updates

• 00:01:41 COLDCARD Mk4 5.0.7 - Sep 9, 2022 (bit.ly/3BClP0f)
  00:05:56 Core Lightning v0.12.0 - Aug 24, 2022 (bit.ly/3S5lr1m)
• 00:12:43 Blockclock 1.2.0 - Sep 15, 2022 (bit.ly/3BxSILG)
• 00:13:34 Spectre desktop v1.12.0 - Aug 26, 2022 (bit.ly/3qSWBWK)
• 00:16:28 Joinmarket v0.9.7 - Aug 28, 2022 (bit.ly/3qWoH3f)
• 00:17:50 NPM package for SeedXOR. (bit.ly/3C8BOFb)
• 00:25:56 RoboSats on Umbrel (bit.ly/3fcjDFa)
• 00:27:19 Ledger adding miniscript (bit.ly/3UmX4xX)
• 00:29:16 Trezor & Wasabi Join Forces To Make Bitcoin More Private (bit.ly/3BXXJOV)
• 00:30:03 Fulcrum added to bitcoinbinary (bit.ly/3DK4xBc)
• 00:37:51 btcd v0.23.1-beta, Aug 31 2022 (bit.ly/3Urjwpv)
• 00:38:04 Zeus v0.6.6, Aug 26 2022 (bit.ly/3f9vpjD)
• 00:39:24 Nunchuk implements bip21, Aug 31 2022 (bit.ly/3BZWG14)
• 00:39:57 BISQ v1.9.5, Aug 22 2022 (bit.ly/3LyPrR5)
• 00:41:01 Fountain Podcasts v0.4.8 (bit.ly/3f1ZTnH)
• 01:33:44 ATEC608A NRND (bit.ly/3xGWmBZ)
• 01:39:26 ETH merge (bit.ly/3SlgfWR)
• 01:51:21 Spiral - Private info retrieval block explorer (bit.ly/3BDto70)
• 01:56:03 US Treasury OFAC Releases Clarifications on Tornado Cash Sanctions (bit.ly/3S1PEyl)
• 01:57:05 BIP Proposal: Wallet Labels Export Format (bit.ly/3Sj5c17)
• 02:00:51 STARK - Zero knowledge bitcoin blockchain state prover (bit.ly/3C0oT8b)
• 02:03:09 Mullvad VPN hardware device (bit.ly/3f9LV3p)

Noteworthy

• 00:53:47 BIPBounty: Tax Deductible Bitcoin Bug Bounties  (bit.ly/3LMxP4l)
• 00:59:34 Fedimint grant season (bit.ly/3S32zjP)
• 01:00:00 Tether Holds Firm on Decision Not To Freeze Tornado Cash Addresses (bit.ly/3UwFgAg)
• 01:01:04 New York Digital Investment Group Announces Lightning Accelerator Project “in Wolf’s Clothing” (bit.ly/3xHo1Ti)
• 01:01:49 Tadge Dryja joins Lightspark (https://bit.ly/3SoAZNG)
• 01:11:26 Shoutout, no bullshit bitcoin - (bit.ly/3DEqB05)
• 01:12:22 LN Explorer (bit.ly/3xIYF7k)
• 01:16:34 Ledger wallets now available at Best Buy (bit.ly/3BA10mr)

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter:

• 01:24:13 Bitcoin Core #23202 extends the psbtbumpfee RPC
• 01:25:08 Eclair #2387 adds support for fee bumping and signet
• 01:25:27 LDK #1652 updates support for onion messages w/ ability to send reply paths and decode them when received
• 01:25:36 HWI #627 adds support for P2TR keypath spends using the BitBox02 hardware signing device
• 01:33:22 BDK begins verifying both ECDSA and schnorr signatures immediately after the wallet creates them

02:18:00 Events:

• OsloPlebs
• Austin Bitcoin Design Club
• BitBlockBoom
• Baltic Honeybadger
• BTCAzores
• Bitcoin Amsterdam
• The Bitcoin Collective
• Atlanta Bitcoin Conf
• Adopting Bitcoin
• Unconfiscatable
• Africa Bitcoin Conf