Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Robin Linus, and Lukas George to discuss Newsletter #252.

News

State compression with zero-knowledge validity proofs (1:05)

Waiting for confirmation #2: Incentives (19:00)
Changes to services and client software

Passport firmware 2.1.1 released (37:19)
MuSig wallet Munstr released (37:40)
CLN plugin manager Coffee released (38:49)
Electrum 4.4.3 released (40:01)
Trezor Suite adds coinjoin support (40:32)
Lightning Loop defaults to MuSig2 (41:18)
Mutinynet announces new signet for testing (42:40)
Nunchuk adds coin control, BIP329 support (44:55)
MyCitadel Wallet adds enhanced miniscript support (45:22)
Edge Firmware for Coldcard announced (47:08)

Releases and release candidates

Core Lightning 23.05 (49:54)
Bitcoin Core 23.2 (52:20)
Bitcoin Core 24.1 (52:20)
Bitcoin Core 25.0rc2 (54:06)

Notable code and documentation changes

Bitcoin Core #27021 (56:48)
LND #7668 (59:37)
LDK #2204 (1:00:50)
LDK #1841 (1:02:12)
BIPs #1412 (1:03:35)