Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special Recap

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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

  • Fee-dependent timelocks (16:18)
  • Optimized contract protocol exits (17:20)
  • LN-Symmetry proof-of-concept implementation (18:22)


    • 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

      • BINANAs and BIPs (33:33)
      • Enhanced feerate estimation (34:41)
      • More efficient transaction sponsorship (46:08)


        • 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

            • LN payment feasibility and channel depletion (1:18:17)
            • Quantum-resistant transaction signing (1:20:02)


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


              July

              • Blinded paths for BOLT11 invoices (1:31:07)
              • ChillDKG key generation for threshold signatures (1:31:47)
              • BIPs for MuSig and threshold signatures (1:32:18)


                • August

                • Hyperion network simulator (1:33:00)
                • Full RBF (1:33:56)


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


                  September

                  • Hybrid jamming mitigation tests and tweaks (1:35:10)
                  • Shielded CSV (1:38:40)
                  • LN offline payments (1:41:22)


                    • October

                    • BOLT12 offers (1:42:34)
                    • Mining interfaces, block withholding, and share validation cost (1:43:13)


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


                      November

                      • SuperScalar timeout tree channel factories (1:51:19)
                      • Fast and cheap low-value offchain payment resolution (1:53:29)


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



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