News

• Optech Year in Review
• OP_CTV/BIP-119 BTC Bounty
• HRF & Strike Bitcoin Bounties
• 2 solo bitcoin miners mine a block in the same week

Code Changes

• MuSig2 merged into secp256k1-zkp
• Taproot & Schnorr draft implementation in btcd
• Updates to PSBT merged into bitcoin core
• lnd - remote signer without chain backend

Bitcoin

• Taproot funds burned on the bitcoin blockchain
• Fee Accounts

Lightning

• Moxie Marlinspike on Web3 and Building with Lightning
• Split payments within one LN invoice
• Anchor outputs
• Lightning node operators guide
• Payment sender authentication

Covenants

• Covenant Upgrades Proposals
• ANYPREVOUT BIP
• CTV BIP
• Drivechains BIP
• TAPLEAF_UPDATE_VERIFY
• Covenants Research Paper
• Optech Covenant Topic