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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #391 Recap
Description
Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Toby Sharp, Chris Hyunhum Cho, Jonas Nick, and Antoine Poinsot to discuss Newsletter #391.
News
● A constant-time parallelized UTXO database (25:40)
● Bithoven: A formally verified, imperative language for Bitcoin Script (44:48)
● Discussion of dust attack mitigations (1:43:33)
Changing consensus
● SHRINCS: 324-byte stateful post-quantum signatures with static backups (1:30)
● Addressing remaining points on BIP54 (1:10:08)
● Falcon post-quantum signature scheme proposal (20:05)
● SLH-DSA verification can compete with ECC (23:28)
Releases and release candidates
● LDK 0.1.9 (1:50:27)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #33604 (1:53:10)
● Bitcoin Core #34358 (1:54:58)
● Core Lightning #8824 (1:56:20)
● Eclair #3244 (1:58:17)
● LDK #4263 (2:00:07)
● LDK #4300 (2:01:54)
● LND #10473 (2:03:57)
● Rust Bitcoin #5493 (2:07:36)