Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #239 Recap

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Join Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt as they are joined by James O’Beirne, Christian Decker, and Russell O’Connor to discuss Newsletter #239.

A full transcript of the discussion is available here.

News
  • Draft BIP for OP_VAULT (1:18)
  • LN quality of service flag (4:15)
  • Feedback requested on LN good neighbor scoring (13:58)
  • Proposed BIP for Codex32 seed encoding scheme (20:27)
    • Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
    • Why is witness data downloaded during IBD in prune mode? (36:40)
    • Can Bitcoin’s P2P network relay compressed data? (40:39)
    • How does one become a DNS seed for Bitcoin Core? (41:18)
    • Where can I learn about open research topics in Bitcoin? (44:00)
    • What is the maximum size transaction that will be relayed by bitcoin nodes using the default configuration? (47:55)
    • Understanding how ordinals work with in Bitcoin. What is exactly stored on the blockchain? (50:07)
    • Why doesn’t the protocol allow unconfirmed transactions to expire at a given height? (51:00)
      • Releases and release candidates
      • BDK 0.27.1 (52:44)
      • Core Lightning 23.02rc3 (53:16)
        • Notable code and documentation changes
        • Bitcoin Core #24149 (53:57)
        • Bitcoin Core #25344 (56:10)
        • Eclair #2596 (58:09)
        • Eclair #2595 (59:31)
        • Eclair #2479 (59:45)
        • LND #5988 (1:00:09)
        • Rust Bitcoin #1636 (1:00:42)
          • ...more
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