Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Dave Harding, and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #282: 2023 Year-in-Review Special⁠.

January

Bitcoin Inquisition (10:59)
Swap-in-potentiam (14:03)
BIP329 wallet label export format (19:32)

February

Ordinals and inscriptions (20:22)
Bitcoin Search, ChatBTC, and TL;DR (41:50)
Peer storage backups (43:40)
LN quality of service (44:10)
HTLC endorsement (47:31)
Codex32 (48:33)

March

Hierarchical channels (50:57)

Summary 2023: Soft fork proposals (54:22)
April

Watchtower accountability proofs (1:04:24)
Route blinding (1:05:58)
MuSig2 (1:08:36)
RGB and Taproot Assets (1:12:47)
Channel splicing (1:16:06)

May

LSP specifications (1:21:10)
Payjoin (1:23:07)
Ark (1:27:40)

June

Silent payments (1:30:33)

Summary 2023: Security disclosures (1:32:34)
July

Validating Lightning Signer (1:36:10)
LN developer meeting (1:38:00)

August

Onion messages (1:38:28)
Outdated backup proofs (1:41:52)
Simple taproot channels (1:44:39)

September

Compressed Bitcoin transactions (1:46:40)

Summary 2023: Major releases of popular infrastructure projects (1:48:19)
October

Payment switching and splitting (1:49:46)
Sidepools (1:51:30)
AssumeUTXO (1:55:28)
Version 2 P2P transport (1:55:51)
Miniscript (1:57:18)
State compression and BitVM (2:00:07)

November

Offers (2:05:53)
Liquidity advertisements (2:08:26)

Summary 2023: Bitcoin Optech (1:11)
December

Cluster mempool (2:11:10)
Warnet (2:13:12)