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:

April 13, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #246 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Lisa Neigut and Niklas Gögge to discuss Newsletter #246.

News
Splicing specification discussions (1:24)

Proposed BIP for transaction terminology (40:49)
Bitcoin Core PR Review Club
Don’t download witnesses for assumed-valid blocks when running in prune mode (43:42)
Releases and release candidates
Libsecp256k1 0.3.1 (53:10)

BDK 1.0.0-alpha.0 (58:08)
Notable code and documentation changes
Core Lightning #6012 (58:33)

Core Lightning #6124 (1:02:01)

Eclair #2607 (1:03:06)

LND #7437 (1:04:05)

LND #7069 (1:04:43)

BIPs #1372 (1:06:18)
...more
1h 17min
April 06, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #245 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sergi Delgado Segura to discuss Newsletter #245.

News
Watchtower accountability proofs (0:36)
Releases and release candidates
LND v0.16.0-beta (21:37)

BDK 1.0.0-alpha.0 (22:06)
Notable code and documentation changes
Core Lightning #5967 (22:59)

Eclair #2566 (23:43)

LDK #2062 (24:57)

LDK #2125 (27:18)

BTCPay Server #4826 (27:56)

BTCPay Server #4782 (29:51)

BTCPay Server #4799 (30:15)

BOLTs #765 (31:37)
...more
35min
March 30, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #244 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding to discuss Newsletter #244.

News
Preventing stranded capital with multiparty channels and channel factories (1:00)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Why isn’t the taproot deployment buried in Bitcoin Core? (28:06)

What restrictions does the version field in the block header have? (32:23)

What is the relation between transaction data and ids? (39:04)

Can I request tx messages from other peers? (43:33)

Eltoo: Does the relative locktime on the first UTXO set the lifetime of the channel? (47:34)

Releases and release candidates
Rust Bitcoin 0.30.0 (52:23)

LND v0.16.0-beta.rc5 (53:43)

BDK 1.0.0-alpha.0 (54:16)

Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #27278 (54:45)

Bitcoin Core #26531 (1:00:26)

Core Lightning #5898 (1:03:23)

Core Lightning #5986 (1:05:21)

Eclair #2616 (1:07:43)

LDK #2024 (1:10:34)

Rust Bitcoin #1737 (1:12:43)

BTCPay Server #4608 (1:13:03)

BIPs #1425 (1:15:43)

Bitcoin Inquisition #22 (1:16:51)
...more
1h 22min
March 29, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #243 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Alekos Filini to discuss Newsletter #243.

News
No significant news this week was found on the Bitcoin-Dev or Lightning-Dev mailing lists.
Changes to services and client software
Xapo Bank supports Lightning (1:41)

TypeScript library for miniscript descriptors released (3:02)

Breez Lightning SDK announced (6:48)

PSBT-based exchange OpenOrdex launches (10:48)

BTCPay Server coinjoin plugin released (14:01)

mempool.space explorer enhances CPFP support (18:46)

Sparrow v1.7.3 released (21:38)

Stack Wallet adds coin control, BIP47 (24:22)

Wasabi Wallet v2.0.3 released (26:26)
Releases and release candidates
LND v0.16.0-beta.rc3 (28:32)
Notable code and documentation changes
LND #7448 (29:16)

BDK #793 (36:03)
...more
49min
March 22, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #242 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Calvin Kim, James O’Beirne, and Greg Sanders to discuss Newsletter #242.

News
Service bit for Utreexo (1:28)
Releases and release candidates
Core Lightning v23.02.2 (22:04)

Libsecp256k1 0.3.0 (25:47)

LND v0.16.0-beta.rc3 (29:01)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #25740 (30:01)
...more
46min
March 13, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #241 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by James O’Beirne and Greg Sanders to discuss Newsletter #241.
News
Alternative design for OP_VAULT (0:41)

New Optech Podcast (23:29)
Bitcoin Core PR Review Club
Bitcoin-inquisition: Activation logic for testing consensus changes (24:33)
Releases and release candidates
Core Lightning 23.02 (38:01)

LDK v0.0.114 (40:00)

BTCPay 1.8.2 (40:52)

LND v0.16.0-beta.rc2 (41:40)
Notable code and documentation changes
LND #7462 (42:48)
...more
44min
March 06, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #240 Recap
Mark "Murch" Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #240.
News
Faster seed backup checksums (2:31)
Releases and release candidates
HWI 2.2.1 (10:17)

Core Lightning 23.02rc3 (11:38)

lnd v0.16.0-beta.rc1 (12:03)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #25943 (12:59)

Bitcoin Core #26595 (15:11)

Bitcoin Core #27068 (16:51)

LDK #1988 (18:37)

LDK #1977 (20:15)
...more
22min
February 27, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #239 Recap
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
1h 2min
February 16, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #238 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by AJ Towns, Yuval Kogman, Alex Myers and Vivek Kasarabada to discuss Newsletter #238.

News
Continued discussion about block chain data storage (1:02)

Fee dilution in multiparty protocols (27:29)

Tapscript signature malleability (33:47)
Changes to services and client software
Liana wallet adds multisig (37:35)

Sparrow wallet 1.7.2 released (38:46)

Bitcoinex library adds schnorr support (39:20)

Libwally 0.8.8 released (39:59)
Optech Recommends
BitcoinSearch.xyz (40:40)
Releases and release candidates
Core Lightning 23.02rc2 (42:21)

BTCPay Server 1.7.11 (47:49)

BDK 0.27.0 (49:32)
Notable code and documentation changes
Core Lightning #5361 (49:51)

Core Lightning #5670 and #5956 (54:45)

Core Lightning #5697 (56:23)

Core Lightning #5960 (57:38)

LND #7171 (58:54)

LDK #2002 (1:00:01)

BTCPay Server #4600 (1:00:59)
...more
1h 4min
February 09, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #237 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Martin Zumsande and Carla Kirk-Cohen to discuss Newsletter #237.

News
Discussion about storing data in the block chain (1:19)

Summary of call about mitigating LN jamming (11:05)
Bitcoin Core PR Review Club
Track AddrMan totals by network and table, improve precision of adding fixed seeds (27:50)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #25880 (39:45)

Core Lightning #5679 (45:34)

Core Lightning #5821 (46:25)

Core Lightning #5849 (47:20)

Core Lightning #5892 (47:51)

Eclair #2565 (48:59)

LND #7252 (51:03)

LND #6527 (51:53)
...more
53min

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How many episodes does Bitcoin Optech Podcast have?

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