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Bitcoin Optech Podcast
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Bitcoin Optech Podcast episodes:
September 10, 2024Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #319 Recap Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Filippo Merli, Lorenzo Bonazzi, Matt Corallo, Eric Voskuil, and rkrux to discuss Newsletter #319.
News
- Stratum v2 extension for fee revenue sharing (1:49)
- OP_CAT research fund (17:53)
- Mitigating merkle tree vulnerabilities (22:43)
Releases and release candidates
- Core Lightning 24.08 (55:21)
- LDK 0.0.124 (57:59)
- LND v0.18.3-beta.rc2 (1:06:19)
- BDK 1.0.0-beta.2 (1:06:43)
- Bitcoin Core 28.0rc1 (1:07:27)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #30454 (1:15:05)
- Bitcoin Core #22838 (1:17:41)
- Eclair #2865 (1:19:56)
- LND #9009 (1:21:49)
- LDK #3268 (1:23:33)
- BIPs #1657 (1:26:55)
...more September 03, 2024Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #318 Recap Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jay Beddict to discuss Newsletter #318.
News
- New Bitcoin Mining Development mailing list (0:48)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- Can a BIP152 compact block be sent before validation by a node that doesn't know all transactions? (15:03)
- Did Segwit (BIP141) eliminate all txid malleability issues listed in BIP62? (18:13)
- Why are the checkpoints still in the codebase in 2024? (22:35)
- Bulletproof++ as generic ZKP ala SNARKs? (26:28)
- How can OP_CAT be used to implement additional covenants? (28:13)
- Why do some bech32 bitcoin addresses contain a large number of 'q's? (32:25)
- How does a 0-conf signature bond work? (37:29)
Releases and release candidates
- Core Lightning 24.08rc2 (42:45)
- LND v0.18.3-beta.rc1 (43:13)
- BDK 1.0.0-beta.2 (43:43)
- Bitcoin Core 28.0rc1 (45:10)
Notable code and documentation changes
- LDK #3263 (48:15)
- LDK #3247 (49:10)
- BDK #1569 (50:13)
...more August 27, 2024Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #317 Recap Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bob McElrath and moonsettler to discuss Newsletter #317.
News
- Simple (but imperfect) anti-exfiltration protocol (0:53)
Changes to services and client software
- Proton Wallet announced (23:33)
- CPUNet testnet announced (25:38)
- Lightning.Pub launches (38:52)
- Taproot Assets v0.4.0-alpha released (39:45)
- Stratum v2 benchmarking tool released (41:31)
- STARK verification PoC on signet (42:52)
- SeedSigner 0.8.0 released (48:48)
- Floresta 0.6.0 released (50:25)
Releases and release candidates
- Core Lightning 24.08rc2 (51:52)
- LND v0.18.3-beta.rc1 (52:33)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #28553 (53:18)
- Bitcoin Core #30246 (56:39)
- Bitcoin Core GUI #824 (1:02:10)
- Core Lightning #7540 (1:04:20)
- Core Lightning #7403 (1:05:20)
- LND #8943 (1:06:13)
- BDK #1478 (1:07:26)
- BDK #1533 (1:08:12)
- BOLTs #1182 (1:11:49)
- BLIPs #39 (1:12:55)
...more August 20, 2024Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #316 Recap Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier and Hennadii Stepanov to discuss Newsletter #316.
News
- New time warp vulnerability in testnet4 (1:05)
- Onion message DoS risk discussion (14:20)
- Optional identification and authentication of LN payers (28:04)
- Bitcoin Core switch to CMake build system (36:15)
Releases and release candidates
- BDK 1.0.0-beta.1 (53:55)
- Core Lightning 24.08rc2 (54:10)
- LND v0.18.3-beta.rc1 (54:29)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #29519 (55:01)
- Bitcoin Core #30598 (59:29)
- Bitcoin Core #28280 (1:02:18)
- Bitcoin Core #28052 (1:04:47)
- Core Lightning #7528 (1:08:01)
- Core Lightning #7533 (1:10:11)
- Core Lightning #7517 (1:11:19)
- LND #8955 (1:13:08)
- LND #8886 (1:14:39)
- LND #8967 (1:19:45)
- LDK #3215 (1:22:13)
- BLIPs #27 (1:26:27)
...more August 13, 2024Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #315 Recap Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Corallo, Greg Sanders, Sivaram Dhakshinamoorthy to discuss Newsletter #315.
News
- Faster seed exfiltration attack (1:24)
- Block withholding attacks and potential solutions (17:21)
- Statistics on compact block reconstruction (21:47)
- Replacement cycle attack against pay-to-anchor (36:23)
- Proposed BIP for scriptless threshold signatures (42:24)
- Optimistic verification of zero-knowledge proofs using CAT, MATT, and Elftrace (50:40)
Bitcoin Core PR Review Club (33:15)
Releases and release candidates
- Libsecp256k1 0.5.1 (53:11)
- BDK 1.0.0-beta.1 (53:43)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #30493 (54:38)
- Bitcoin Core #30285 (57:33)
- Bitcoin Core #30352 (1:02:26)
- Bitcoin Core #29775 (1:02:39)
- Core Lightning #7476 (1:08:21)
- Eclair #2884 (1:08:55)
- LND #8952 (1:12:10)
- LND #8735 (1:13:40)
- BIPs #1601 (1:14:44)
...more August 06, 2024Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #314 Recap Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sergi Delgado to discuss Newsletter #314.
News
- Disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 22.0 (0:56)
- Optimizing block building with cluster mempool (11:23)
- Hyperion network event simulator for the Bitcoin P2P network (14:30)
Releases and release candidates
- BDK 1.0.0-beta.1 (41:01)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #30515 (41:36)
- Bitcoin Core #30126 (43:00)
- Bitcoin Core #30482 (44:18)
- Bitcoin Core #30275 (45:18)
- Bitcoin Core #30408 (47:29)
- Core Lightning #7474 (49:27)
- LND #8891 (51:21)
- LDK #3139 (51:57)
- Rust Bitcoin #3010 (52:48)
...more July 30, 2024Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #313 Recap Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #313.
News
- Varied discussion of free relay and fee bumping upgrades (0:31)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- Why is restructure of mempool required with cluster mempool? (29:54)
- DEFAULT_MAX_PEER_CONNECTIONS for Bitcoin Core is 125 or 130? (36:32)
- Why do protocol developers work on maximizing miner revenue? (38:34)
- Is there an economic incentive to use P2WSH over P2TR? (42:26)
- How many blocks per second can sustainably be created using a time warp attack? (45:30)
- pkh() nested in tr() is allowed? (49:01)
- Can a block more than a week old be considered a valid chain tip? (51:25)
- SIGHASH_ANYONECANPAY mediated tx modification (57:35)
- Why does RBF rule #3 exist? (1:00:35)
Releases and release candidates
- BDK 1.0.0-beta.1 (1:02:05)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #30320 (1:02:58)
- Bitcoin Core #29523 (1:07:42)
- Core Lightning #7461 (1:10:03)
- Eclair #2881 (1:11:06)
...more July 23, 2024Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #312 Recap Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick and Pieter Wuille to discuss Newsletter #312.
News
- Distributed key generation protocol for FROST (1:37)
- Introduction to cluster linearization (28:45)
Changes to services and client software
- ZEUS adds BOLT12 offers and BIP353 support (56:15)
- Phoenix adds BOLT12 offers and BIP353 support (57:02)
- Stack Wallet adds RBF and CPFP support (57:42)
- BlueWallet adds silent payment send support (57:59)
- BOLT12 Playground announced (59:10)
- Moosig testing repository announced (59:56)
- Real-time Stratum visualization tool released (1:01:01)
- BMM 100 Mini Miner announced (1:01:57)
- Coldcard publishes URL-based transaction broadcast specification (1:02:32)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #26596 (1:09:38)
- Core Lightning #7455 (1:11:27)
- Eclair #2878 (1:11:58)
- Rust Bitcoin #2646 (1:13:03)
- BDK #1489 (1:13:55)
- BIPs #1599 (1:15:22)
- BOLTs #1173 (1:17:50)
- BLIPs #25 (1:18:50)
...more July 16, 2024Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #311 Recap Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Vojtěch Strnad and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #311.
News (1:00)
Bitcoin Core PR Review Club
- Testnet4 including PoW difficulty adjustment fix (15:14)
Releases and release candidates
- Bitcoin Core 26.2 (37:23)
- LND v0.18.2-beta (37:42)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Rust Bitcoin #2949 (40:04)
- BDK #1487 (41:20)
...more July 09, 2024Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #310 Recap Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot and Elle Mouton to discuss Newsletter #310.
News
- Disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 0.21.0 (0:59)
- Adding a BOLT11 invoice field for blinded paths (22:17)
Releases and release candidates
- Bitcoin Core 26.2rc1 (36:43)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #28167 (37:48)
- Bitcoin Core #30007 (39:07)
- Bitcoin Core #30200 (40:37)
- Core Lightning #7342 (41:33)
- LND #8796 (42:55)
- LDK #3125 (45:26)
- BIPs #1610 (46:21)
- BIPs #1540 (49:07)
...more
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How many episodes does Bitcoin Optech Podcast have?
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