Bitcoin Optech Podcast

By Bitcoin Optech

Join Bitcoin Optech as we discuss Bitcoin and Lightning technology each week and review our newsletters.

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How many episodes does Bitcoin Optech Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 147 episodes available.

Bitcoin Optech Podcast episodes:

June 22, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #256 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Thomas Voegtlin to discuss Newsletter #256.

News
Proposal to extend BOLT11 invoices to request two payments (1:00)
Waiting for confirmation #6: Policy Consistency (19:25)
Changes to services and client software
Greenlight libraries open sourced (32:01)

Tapscript debugger Tapsim (33:25)

Bitcoin Keeper 1.0.4 announced (35:09)

Lightning wallet EttaWallet announced (35:47)

zkSNARK-based block header sync PoC announced (37:09)

lnprototest v0.0.4 released (39:45)
Releases and release candidates
Eclair v0.9.0 (41:24)
Notable code and documentation changes
LDK #2294 (44:33)

LDK #2156 (46:57)
...more
50min
June 15, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #255 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Ruben Somsen, Josie Baker, Matthew Zipkin, and Joost Jager to discuss Newsletter #255.

News
Discussion about the taproot annex (1:32)

Draft BIP for silent payments (22:17)
Waiting for confirmation #5: Policy for Protection of Node Resources (41:48)
Bitcoin Core PR Review Club
Allow inbound whitebind connections to more aggressively evict peers when slots are full (53:38)
Releases and release candidates
Core Lightning 23.05.1 (1:07:01)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #27501 (1:07:41)

Core Lightning #6243 (1:11:40)

Eclair #2677 (1:12:46)

Rust bitcoin #1890 (1:15:56)
...more
1h 19min
June 08, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #254 Recap
Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Johan Torås Halseth, and Salvatore Ingala to discuss Newsletter #254.

News
Using MATT to replicate CTV and manage joinpools (1:23)
Waiting for confirmation #4: Feerate estimation (24:23)
Releases and release candidates
LND 0.16.3-beta (40:37)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #26485 (42:34)

Eclair #2642 (44:40)

LND #7645 (46:11)

LND #7726 (48:25)

LDK #2293 (51:04)
...more
56min
June 01, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #253 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Burak Keceli, Dave Harding, and Joost Jager to discuss Newsletter #253.

News
Proposal for a managed joinpool protocol (1:46)

Transaction relay over Nostr (40:38)
Waiting for confirmation #3: Bidding for block space (1:00:02)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Testing pruning logic with bitcoind (1:12:38)

What's the governing motivation for the descendent size limit? (1:13:19)

How does it contribute to the Bitcoin network when I run a node with a bigger than default mempool? (1:16:48)

What is the maximum number of inputs/outputs a transaction can have? (1:21:18)

Can 2-of-3 multisig funds be recovered without one of the xpubs? (1:23:50)
Releases and release candidates
Bitcoin Core 25.0 (1:27:05)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #27469 (1:30:27)

Bitcoin Core #27626 (1:32:40)

Bitcoin Core #25796 (1:35:24)

Eclair #2668 (1:37:17)

Eclair #2666 (1:39:20)

BTCPay Server 97e7e (1:41:56)

BIPs #1446 (1:43:15)
...more
1h 47min
May 25, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #252 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Robin Linus, and Lukas George to discuss Newsletter #252.

News
State compression with zero-knowledge validity proofs (1:05)
Waiting for confirmation #2: Incentives (19:00)
Changes to services and client software
Passport firmware 2.1.1 released (37:19)

MuSig wallet Munstr released (37:40)

CLN plugin manager Coffee released (38:49)

Electrum 4.4.3 released (40:01)

Trezor Suite adds coinjoin support (40:32)

Lightning Loop defaults to MuSig2 (41:18)

Mutinynet announces new signet for testing (42:40)

Nunchuk adds coin control, BIP329 support (44:55)

MyCitadel Wallet adds enhanced miniscript support (45:22)

Edge Firmware for Coldcard announced (47:08)
Releases and release candidates
Core Lightning 23.05 (49:54)

Bitcoin Core 23.2 (52:20)

Bitcoin Core 24.1 (52:20)

Bitcoin Core 25.0rc2 (54:06)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #27021 (56:48)

LND #7668 (59:37)

LDK #2204 (1:00:50)

LDK #1841 (1:02:12)

BIPs #1412 (1:03:35)
...more
1h 6min
May 18, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #251 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Carla Kirk-Cohen, Severin Bühler, and Dan Gould to discuss Newsletter #251.

News
Testing HTLC endorsement (1:33)

Request for feedback on proposed specifications for LSPs (14:52)

Challenges with zero-conf channels when dual funding (20:59)

Advanced payjoin applications (24:51)

Summaries of Bitcoin Core developers in-person meeting (37:35)
Waiting for confirmation #1: why do we have a mempool? (51:07)
Releases and release candidates
Libsecp256k1 0.3.2 (1:04:21)

Core Lightning 23.05rc2 (1:05:07)

Bitcoin Core 23.2rc1 (1:05:20)

Bitcoin Core 24.1rc3 (1:05:20)

Bitcoin Core 25.0rc2 (1:05:20)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #26076 (1:06:10)

Bitcoin Core #27608 (1:07:20)

LDK #2286 (1:08:27)

LDK #1794 (1:08:47)

Rust Bitcoin #1844 (1:09:08)

Rust Bitcoin #1837 (1:11:33)

BOLTs #1075 (1:12:04)
...more
1h 14min
May 11, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #250 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Larry Ruane and Thomas Hartman to discuss Newsletter #250.

News
Paper about PoWswap protocol (1:36)
Releases and release candidates
Core Lightning 23.05rc2 (19:17)

Bitcoin Core 24.1rc2 (23:05)

Bitcoin Core 25.0rc1 (25:35)
Bitcoin Core PR Review Club
Add getprioritisationmap, delete a mapDeltas entry when delta==0 (26:26)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #26094 (45:42)

Bitcoin Core #27195 (46:42)

Eclair #1783 (48:34)

LND #7568 (50:11)

LDK #2044 (52:45)
Celebrating Optech Newsletter #250 (54:17)
...more
56min
May 04, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #249 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Salvatore Ingala, James O’Beirne, Adam Gibson, and Steve Lee to discuss Newsletter #249.

News
Job opportunity for project champions (1:17)

MATT-based vaults (12:29)

Analysis of signature adaptor security (33:40)
Releases and release candidates
LND v0.16.2-beta (56:25)

Core Lightning 23.05rc2 (57:20)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #25158 (58:17)

Bitcoin Core #26933 (1:00:23)

Bitcoin Core #25325 (1:04:24)

Bitcoin Core #25939 (1:07:18)

LDK #2222 (1:12:31)

LDK #2208 (1:15:39)
...more
1h 18min
April 27, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #248 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Will Clark to discuss Newsletter #248.

News
Proposed removal of BIP35 `mempool` P2P message (0:41)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
How many sigops are in the invalid block 783426? (15:27)

How would an adversary increase the required fee to replace a transaction by up to 500 times? (19:10)

Best Practices with Multiple CPFPs & CPFP + RBF? (22:51)
Releases and release candidates
LDK 0.0.115 (25:01)

LND v0.16.1-beta (25:48)

Core Lightning 23.05rc1 (27:01)
Notable code and documentation changes
LND #7564 (27:35)

LND #6903 (28:10)

LDK #2198 (29:40)

Bitcoin Inquisition #23 (32:37)
...more
35min
April 20, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #247 Recap
Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Maxim Orlovsky to discuss Newsletter #247.

News
RGB update (1:12)
Changes to services and client software
Descriptor wallet library adds block explorer (36:02)

Stratum v2 reference implementation update announced (38:02)

Liana 0.4 released (42:35)

Coldcard firmware supports additional sighash flags (46:12)

Zeus adds fee bumping features (45:12)

Utreexo-based Electrum Server announced (48:12)
Releases and release candidates
BDK 0.28.0 (53:08)

Core Lightning 23.02.2 (55:01)

Core Lightning 23.05rc1 (55:40)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #27358 (56:57)

Core Lightning #6120 (1:01:14)

Eclair #2584 (1:04:54)
...more
1h 10min

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