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:

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
November 10, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #225 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #225.

News
Continued discussion about enabling full-RBF (0:54)

Block parsing bug affecting multiple software (14:36)
Bitcoin Core PR Review Club
Relax MIN_STANDARD_TX_NONWITNESS_SIZE to 65 non-witness bytes (19:32)
Releases and release candidates
Rust Bitcoin 0.28.2 (28:41)

Bitcoin Core 24.0 RC3 (29:40)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #26419 (30:22)

Eclair #2404 (31:21)

Eclair #2468 (32:11)

Eclair #2469 (34:31)

Eclair #2362 (35:18)

Eclair #2441 (36:40)

LND #7100 (38:29)

LDK #1761 (38:44)

LDK #1743 (40:57)

BTCPay Server #4157 (42:05)

BOLTs #1032 (42:45)
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44min
November 03, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #224 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier and Joost Jager to discuss Newsletter #224.

News
Mempool consistency (3:15)

BIP324 message identifiers (17:55)

LN routing failure attribution (21:24)

Anchor outputs workaround (33:08)
Releases and release candidates
LND 0.15.4-beta (42:27)

Bitcoin Core 24.0 RC2 (51:36)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #23927 (52:50)

Bitcoin Core #25957 (55:18)

Bitcoin Core #23578 (56:42)

Core Lightning #5646 (57:53)

LND #6517 (1:01:18)

LND #7001 (1:03:52)

LND #6831 (1:05:58)

LND 609cc8b (1:08:42)

Rust Bitcoin #957 (1:09:15)

BDK #779 (1:10:08)
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1h 14min
October 27, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #223 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Gregory Sanders, and Sergej Kotliar to discuss Newsletter #223.
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1h 35min
October 20, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #222 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by John Light and Gregory Sanders to discuss Newsletter #222.

News
Block parsing bug affecting BTCD and LND (0:10)

Transaction replacement option (5:34)

Validity rollups research (18:02)

MuSig2 security vulnerability (52:00)

Minimum relayable transaction size (55:55)

BIP324 update (1:01:52)
Changes to services and client software
btcd v0.23.2 released (1:05:30)

ZEBEDEE announces hosted channel libraries (1:06:30)

Cashu launches with Lightning support (1:08:47)

Address explorer Spiral launches (1:13:10)

BitGo announces Lightning support (1:16:15)

ZeroSync project launches (1:17:42)
Releases and release candidates
Bitcoin Core 24.0 RC2 (1:20:16)

LND 0.15.3-beta (1:21:22)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #23549 (1:21:38)

Bitcoin Core #25412 (1:23:29)

LND #6956 (1:23:49)

LND #7004 (1:25:31)

LDK #1625 (1:25:54)
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1h 28min
October 13, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #221 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ruben Somsen and Martin Zumsande to discuss Newsletter #221.

News
LN with long timeouts proposal (18:45)

Recommendations for unique address servers (1:32)
Bitcoin Core PR Review Club
Make AddrFetch connections to fixed seeds (23:32)
Releases and release candidates
LND v0.15.2-beta (35:04)

Bitcoin Core 24.0 RC1 (38:14)
Notable code and documentation changes
LND #6500 (39:18)
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41min
October 06, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #220 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao and Rene Pickhardt to discuss Newsletter #220.

News
Proposed new transaction relay policies designed for LN-penalty (1:30)

LN flow control (22:06)
Releases and release candidates
Bitcoin Core 24.0 RC1 (44:38)
Notable code and documentation changes
Eclair #2435 (51:28)

BOLTs #962 (54:38)

BIPs #1370 (55:29)

BIPs #1367 (1:03:04)

BIPs #1349 (1:08:54)

BIPs #1293 (1:12:26)

BIPs #1364 (1:14:47)
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1h 19min
September 29, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #219 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns and Andreas Kouloumos to discuss Newsletter #219.

News
LN fee ratecards (0:51)

Bitcoin implementation designed for testing soft forks on signet (11:35)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Is it possible to determine whether an HD wallet was used to create a given transaction? (34:10)

Why is there a 5-day gap between the genesis block and block 1? (38:08)

Is it possible to set RBF as always-on in bitcoind? (42:09)

Why would I need to ban peer nodes on the Bitcoin network? (45:53)
Releases and release candidates
Core Lightning 0.12.1 (49:06)

Bitcoin Core 24.0 RC1 (49:17)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #26116 (59:05)

Core Lightning #5594 (1:00:04)

Core Lightning #5315 (1:01:02)

Rust Bitcoin #1258 (1:04:09)
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1h 15min
September 22, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #218 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jeremy Rubin and Paul Sztorc to discuss Newsletter #218.

News
Creating drivechains with APO and a trusted setup (1:07)
Changes to services and client software
Mempool Project launches Lightning Network explorer (51:19)

Federation software Fedimint adds Lightning (45:23)

Bitpay wallet improves RBF support (52:02)

Mutiny Lightning wallet announced (53:03)
Notable code and documentation changes
Core Lightning #5581 (56:41)

Eclair #2418 (54:46)

Eclair #2416 (56:59)

LND #6335 (58:11)

LDK #1706 (59:37)
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1h 4min
September 15, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #217 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Larry Ruane to discuss Newsletter #217.

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club
Reduce bandwidth during initial headers sync when a block is found (4:58)
Releases and release candidates
LDK 0.0.111 (25:09)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #25614 (26:20)

Bitcoin Core #25768 (30:41)

Bitcoin Core #19602 (34:44)

Eclair #2406 (39:27)

Eclair #2190 (44:26)

Rust Bitcoin #1196 (46:51)
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51min

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