Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Liam Eagen to discuss Newsletter #390.

News

● Argo: a garbled-circuits scheme with more efficient off-chain computation (0:48)

● LN-Symmetry update (26:05)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

● What is stored in dbcache and with what priority? (34:21)

● Can one do a coinjoin in Shielded CSV? (24:02)

● In Bitcoin Core, how to use Tor for broadcasting new transactions only? (36:47)

● Brassard-Høyer-Tapp (BHT) algorithm and Bitcoin (BIP360) (38:31)

● Why does BitHash alternate sha256 and ripmed160? (39:24)

Releases and release candidates

● Libsecp256k1 0.7.1 (41:09)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #33822 (42:59)

● Bitcoin Core #34269 (44:50)

● Core Lightning #8850 (47:38)

● LDK #4349 (49:16)

● Rust Bitcoin #5470 (50:54)

● Rust Bitcoin #5443 (51:26)

● BDK #2037 (52:51)

● BIPs #2076 (55:49)

● BIPs #1500 (59:39)