This week’s newsletter summarizes an analysis of several proposals for upgrading LN channels without closing and reopening them, discusses challenges in ensuring pool miners are paid appropriately, links to a discussion about safely using PSBTs for communicating information related to silent payments, announces a proposed BIP for miniscript, and summarizes a proposal for using frequent rebalancing of an LN channel to simulate a price futures contract. Also included are our regular sections summarizing changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and summarizing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.