Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, Niklas Gögge, Gloria Zhao, and Rearden to discuss ⁠Newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special⁠.

January

February

Replace by feerate (22:32)
Human-readable payment instructions (27:25)
Improved ASMap generation (28:09)
LN dual funding (32:33)
Trustless betting on future feerates (32:56)

Summary 2024: Vulnerability disclosures (7:05)

March

April

Consensus cleanup (50:06)
Reforming the BIPs process (51:08)
Inbound routing fees (53:10)
Weak blocks (54:01)
Restarting testnet (57:43)
Developers arrested (1:00:06)

Summary 2024: Cluster mempool (1:01:10)

May

Silent payments (1:06:51)
BitVMX (1:07:37)
Anonymous usage tokens (1:09:50)
LN channel upgrades (1:12:00)
Ecash for pool miners (1:13:33)
Miniscript specification (1:14:54)
Utreexo beta (1:16:16)

June

Summary 2024: P2P transaction relay (1:20:39)

July

August

Summary 2024: Covenants and script upgrades (2:08)

September

October

Summary 2024: Major releases of popular infrastructure projects (1:50:41)

November

Summary 2024: Bitcoin Optech (1:55:17)

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