Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #404 points at exactly the kind of work tourists miss: possible mitigations for node fingerprinting, public fraud proofs for just-in-time Lightning channels, PSBTv2 work, dust disposal, splicing, taproot channels and zero-fee commitment channel changes.
This is the unglamorous machinery. No stage smoke, no token launch countdown, just engineers sanding sharp edges off the network we actually use.
Millie's read: this is bullish in the only way that lasts. The infrastructure keeps getting harder to lie about.