Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier, Rearden Code, and Pieter Wuille to discuss Newsletter #385: 2025 Year-in-Review Special.
January
● Updated ChillDKG draft (43:08)
● Offchain DLCs (45:53)
● Compact block reconstructions (2:29:27)
February
● Erlay update (1:53:55)
● LN ephemeral anchor scripts (0:50)
● Probabilistic payments (54:45)
March
● Bitcoin Forking Guide (3:29:35)
● Private block template marketplace to prevent centralizing MEV (3:05:28)
● LN upfront and hold fees using burnable outputs (13:12)
April
● SwiftSync speedup for initial block download (2:09:35)
● DahLIAS interactive aggregate signatures (3:26:02)
Summary 2025: Quantum (58:07)
May
● Cluster mempool (1:22:11)
● Increasing or removing Bitcoin Core’s OP_RETURN policy limit (2:45:43)
June
● Calculating the selfish mining danger threshold (2:20:39)
● Fingerprinting nodes using addr messages (3:11:38)
● Garbled locks (3:19:01)
Summary 2025: Soft fork proposals (26:57)
July
● Chain code delegation (49:07)
August
● Utreexo draft BIPs (2:15:57)
● Lowering the minimum relay feerate (2:39:52)
● Peer block template sharing (2:56:01)
● Differential fuzzing of Bitcoin and LN implementations (3:16:08)
Summary 2025: Stratum v2 (2:04:49)
September
● Details about the design of Simplicity (3:23:01)
● Partitioning and eclipse attacks using BGP interception (3:13:47)
October
● Discussions about arbitrary data (3:01:15)
● Channel jamming mitigation simulation results and updates (11:05)
November
● Comparing performance of ECDSA signature validation in OpenSSL vs. libsecp256k1 (2:01:47)
● Modeling stale rates by propagation delay and mining centralization (2:22:32)
● BIP3 and the BIP process (3:31:37)
● Bitcoin Kernel C API introduced (3:35:35)
December
● Splicing (7:33)