Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #270 Recap

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns to discuss Newsletter #270.


News

  • Using covenants to improve LN scalability (2:07)

    • Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

    • How did peer discovery work in Bitcoin v0.1? (20:42)
    • Would a series of reorgs cause Bitcoin to break because of the 2-hour block time difference restriction? (22:48)
    • Is there a way to download blocks from scratch without downloading block headers first? (26:56)
    • Where is the bitcoin source code is the 21 million hard cap stated? (28:56)
    • Are blocks containing non-standard transactions relayed through the network or not as in the case of non-standard transactions? (31:50)
    • When does Bitcoin Core allow you to Abandon transaction? (35:47)

      • Releases and release candidates

      • LND v0.17.0-beta.rc5 (39:07)

        • Notable code and documentation changes

        • Bitcoin Core #28492 (39:54)
        • Bitcoin Core GUI #119 (41:13)
        • Bitcoin Core GUI #738 (42:49)
        • Bitcoin Core #28246 (44:18)
        • Core Lightning #6311 (46:30)
        • Core Lightning #6617 (47:23)
        • Core Lightning #6686 (47:55)
        • Eclair #2613 (48:44)
        • LND #7994 (50:18)
        • LDK #2547 (51:10)
        • LDK #2534 (53:01)
          • ...more
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