Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #297 Recap Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Kulpreet Singh, Chris Stewart, Jameson Lopp, and Joost Jager to discuss ⁠Newsletter #297⁠.



News


DSL for experimenting with contracts (1:24)
Updating BIP2 (15:50)
Discussion about resetting and modifying testnet (21:00)

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club


Implement 64 bit arithmetic op codes in the Script interpreter (37:19)

Releases and release candidates


HWI 3.0.0 (46:17)
Core Lightning 24.02.2 (48:06)
Bitcoin Core 27.0rc1 (49:41)

Notable code and documentation changes


Bitcoin Core #29648 (50:25)
Bitcoin Core #29130 (21:00)