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 156 episodes available.

Bitcoin Optech Podcast episodes:

January 26, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #235 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Valentine Wallace to discuss Newsletter #235.

News
Ephemeral anchors compared to `SIGHASH_GROUP` (0:58)

Request for proof that an async payment was accepted (12:04)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Bitcoin Core signing keys were removed from repo. What is the new process? (27:53)

Why doesn't signet use a unique bech32 prefix? (31:36)

Arbitrary data storage in witness? (34:07)

Why is the locktime set at transaction level while the sequence is set at input level? (38:35)

BLS signatures vs Schnorr (42:30)

Why exactly would adding further divisibility to bitcoin require a hard fork? (46:56)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #26325 (55:20)

Libsecp256k1 #1192 (57:37)

BIPs #1383 (1:00:22)
...more
1h 3min
January 19, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #234 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by James O’Beirne to discuss Newsletter #234.

News
Proposal for new vault-specific opcodes (1:48)
Changes to services and client software
Kraken announces sending to taproot addresses (53:01)

Whirlpool coinjoin rust client library announced (53:45)

Ledger supports miniscript (54:25)

Liana wallet released (55:11)

Electrum 4.3.3 released (58:40)
Releases and release candidates
HWI 2.2.0 (1:00:04)
Notable code and documentation changes
Core Lightning #5751 (1:02:54)

BIPs #1378 (1:06:23)
...more
1h 12min
January 12, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #233 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jesse Posner and ZmnSCPxj to discuss Newsletter #233.

News
Non-interactive LN channel open commitments (3:20)
Releases and release candidates
BDK 0.26.0 (54:27)

HWI 2.2.0-rc1 (55:55)
Notable code and documentation changes
Eclair #2455 (56:56)
...more
1h 3min
January 05, 2023Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #232 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Peter Todd to discuss Newsletter #232.
...more
1h 9min
December 22, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #231: 2022 Year-in-Review Special Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding to discuss ⁠Newsletter #231⁠.

January
Stateless invoices (7:37)

Legal defense fund (11:21)

February
Fee sponsorship (12:45)

Phantom node payments (15:14)

March
LN pathfinding (17:37)

Zero-conf channels (21:12)

Summary 2022: Replace-By-Fee (24:02)

April
Silent payments (31:17)

Taro (35:06)

Quantum-safe key exchange (45:29)

May
MuSig2 (48:51)

Package relay (52:12)

Bitcoin kernel library (54:49)

June
LN protocol developers meeting (57:46)

July
Onion message rate limiting (1:03:58)

Miniscript descriptors (1:06:34)

August
LN interactive and dual funding (1:12:59)

Channel jamming attack mitigation (1:15:18)

BLS signatures for DLCs (1:18:18)

Summary 2022: Bitcoin Optech (1:23:11)

September
Fee ratecards (1:26:07)

October
Version 3 transaction relay (1:29:09)

Async payments (1:33:25)

Block parsing bugs (1:36:41)

ZK rollups (1:37:07)

Encrypted version 2 transport protocol (1:39:41)

Meeting of Bitcoin protocol developers (1:41:26)

Summary 2022: Soft fork proposals (1:43:40)

November
Fat error messages (1:51:24)

December
Modifying the LN protocol (1:55:57)
...more
2h 7min
December 15, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #230 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ben Carman and Joost Jager to discuss Newsletter #230.

News
Factory-optimized LN protocol proposal (2:34)

Local jamming to prevent remote jamming (9:28)

Monitoring of full-RBF replacements (29:17)
Changes to services and client software
Lily Wallet adds coin selection (38:57)

Vortex software creates LN channels from a coinjoin (41:42)

Mutiny demonstrates LN node in a browser PoC (49:31)

Coinkite launches BinaryWatch.org (55:02)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Why is connecting to the Bitcoin network exclusively over Tor considered a bad practice? (57:46)

Why aren't 3 party (or more) channels realistically possible in Lightning today? (1:01:38)

With legacy wallets deprecated, will Bitcoin Core be able to sign messages for an address? (1:06:14)

How do I set up a time-decay multisig? (1:09:07)

When is a miniscript solution malleable? (1:11:01)
Releases and release candidates
Bitcoin Core 24.0.1 (1:14:02)

libsecp256k1 0.2.0 (1:14:30)

Core Lightning 22.11.1 (1:15:26)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #25934 (1:16:24)

LND #7159 (1:17:10)

LDK #1835 (1:17:38)

BOLTs #1021 (1:21:28)
...more
1h 29min
December 08, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #229 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Greg Sanders and Larry Ruane to discuss Newsletter #229.
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1h 12min
December 01, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #228 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #228.

News
Reputation credentials proposal to mitigate LN jamming attacks (00:33)
Releases and release candidates
LND 0.15.5-beta.rc2 (20:33)

Core Lightning 22.11rc3 (21:29)
Notable code and documentation changes
Core Lightning #5727 (26:41)

Eclair #2499 (28:32)

LND #7122 (36:09)

LDK #1852 (41:51)

Libsecp256k1 #993 (55:02)
...more
58min
November 23, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #227 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #227.
...more
37min
November 17, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #226 Recap
Mike Schmidt is joined by Salvatore Ingala and Clara Shikhelman to discuss Newsletter #226.
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1h 9min

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How many episodes does Bitcoin Optech Podcast have?

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