Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #331 Recap

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns to discuss ⁠Newsletter #331⁠.

News

  • Lisp dialect for Bitcoin scripting (0:48)


    • Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

    • How does ColliderScript improve Bitcoin and what features does it enable? (43:24)
    • Why do standardness rules limit transaction weight? (48:10)
    • Is the scriptSig spending an PayToAnchor output expected to always be empty? (56:16)
    • What happens to the unused P2A outputs? (57:13)
    • Why doesn't Bitcoin's PoW algorithm use a chain of lower-difficulty hashes? (1:01:47)
    • Clarification on false value in Script (1:04:38)
    • What is this strange microtransaction in my wallet? (1:06:02)
    • Are there any UTXOs that can not be spent? (1:09:04)
    • Why was BIP34 not implemented via the coinbase tx's locktime or nSequence? (1:13:15)


      • Releases and release candidates

      • Core Lightning 24.11rc2 (1:15:19)
      • BDK 0.30.0 (1:15:49)
      • LND 0.18.4-beta.rc1 (1:16:16)


        • Notable code and documentation changes

        • Bitcoin Core #31122 (1:17:17)
        • Core Lightning #7852 (1:20:25)
        • Core Lightning #7740 (1:21:27)
        • Core Lightning #7719 (1:22:48)
        • Eclair #2935 (1:23:47)
        • LDK #3137 (1:24:34)
        • LND #8337 (1:26:22)
          • ...more
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