Craig Raw (@craigraw) on silent payments. From Optech Recap #387
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René Pickhardt and Craig Raw joined Optech to discuss Newsletter #387:
- Bitcoin Core wallet migration bug
- Using Ark as a channel factory
- Draft BIP for silent payment descriptors
- And more
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https://bitcoinops.org/en/podcast/2026/01/13/
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Bitcoin Optech newsletter #387 is here:
- warns of a wallet migration bug in Bitcoin Core
- summarizes a post about using the Ark protocol as an LN channel factory
- links to a draft BIP for silent payment descriptors
- Optech Newsletter #387 Podcast https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/01/09/
Bitcoin Core posted a notice of a bug in the legacy wallet migration feature in versions 30.0 and 30.1...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/01/09/#bitcoin-core-wallet-migration-bug
René Pickhardt wrote on Delving Bitcoin about his discussions and ideas around whether Ark’s best use case might be as a flexible channel factory rather than as an end-user payment solution...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/01/09/#using-ark-as-a-channel-factory
Craig Raw posted to the Bitcoin-Dev mailing list a proposal for a draft BIP, which defines a new top-level descriptor script expression sp() for silent payments...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2026/01/09/#draft-bip-for-silent-payment-descriptors
Bitcoin Optech will host an audio recap discussion of this newsletter on http://Riverside.fm Tuesday at 17:30 UTC. Join us to discuss or ask questions!