Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #384 Recap

In this episode of Optech Recap, Mike Schmidt, along with guests Matt Morehouse and Salvatore Ingala, delve into critical Bitcoin updates. Matt discusses vulnerabilities fixed in LND 0.19.0, including denial-of-service and theft-of-fund issues, emphasizing the need for increased security investment and collaboration among Lightning implementations. Salvatore introduces Vanadium, a virtualized secure enclave for hardware signing devices, aiming to democratize device programming and enhance flexibility. The podcast also covers changes to client and service software, such as RawBit's interactive transaction visualization, BlueWallet's Taproot support, Stratum v2 updates, LDK Node 0.7.0 release, BIP329 Python Library 1.0.0, and Bitcoin Safe 1.6.0. The episode concludes with a Q&A segment addressing Lightning node TLS requirements, DER signature variations, and Miniscript after-value limits, alongside notable code and documentation changes in Bitcoin Core, Eclair, LDK, LND, BTC Pay Server, Rust Bitcoin, and BIPS repositories.