LND vulnerabilities, Vanadium - Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #384

Bitcoin Optech newsletter #384 is here:

- discloses vulnerabilities in LND
- describes a project for running a virtual machine in an embedded secure element
- summarizes changes to services/client software
- summarizes popular Q&A from Stack Exchange
- Optech Newsletter #384 Podcast
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/12/

Matt Morehouse posted to Delving Bitcoin about critical vulnerabilities fixed in LND 0.19.0...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/12/#critical-vulnerabilities-fixed-in-lnd-0-19-0

Salvatoshi posted to Delving Bitcoin about Vanadium, a virtualized secure enclave for hardware signing devices...
https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/12/#a-virtualized-secure-enclave-for-hardware-signing-devices

Changes to services and client software:

- Interactive transaction visualization tool

- BlueWallet v7.2.2 released

- Stratum v2 updates

- Auradine announces Stratum v2 support

- LDK Node 0.7.0 released

- BIP-329 Python Library 1.0.0 release

- Bitcoin Safe 1.6.0 released

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/12/#changes-to-services-and-client-software

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange:

- Does a clearnet connection to my Lightning node require a TLS certificate?

- Why do different implementations produce different DER signatures for the same private key and hash?

- Why is the miniscript after value limited at 0x80000000?

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2025/12/12/#selected-qa-from-bitcoin-stack-exchange

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!

https://riverside.fm/studio/bitcoin-optech