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:

September 08, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #216 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Daniela Brozzoni to discuss Newsletter #216.

Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #25717 (2:34)

Bitcoin Core #25355 (22:41)

BDK #689 (31:45)

BDK #682 (39:07)
...more
45min
September 01, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #215 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Craig Raw to discuss Newsletter #215.

News
Wallet label export format (1:00)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Why isn't it possible to add an OP_RETURN commitment (or some arbitrary script) inside a taproot script path with a descriptor? (23:12)

Why does Bitcoin Core rebroadcast transactions? (24:56)

When did Bitcoin Core deprecate the mining function? (33:27)

UTXO spendable by me or deposit to exchange after 5 years? (35:50)

What was the bug for the Bitcoin value overflow in 2010? (41:03)
Releases and release candidates
LND 0.15.1-beta (45:13)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #23202 (45:38)

Eclair #2275 (49:36)

Eclair #2387 (52:01)

LDK #1652 (56:21)

HWI #627 (58:00)

BDK #718 (1:00:47)

BDK #705 (1:02:19)
...more
1h 5min
August 25, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #214 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Riard and Rodolfo Novak to discuss Newsletter #214.

News
Overview of channel jamming attacks and mitigations (28:08)

Updated silent payments PR (2:00)
Changes to services and client software
Purse.io adds Lightning support (10:05)

Proof of concept coinjoin implementation joinstr (12:14)

Coldcard firmware 5.0.6 released (14:48)

Nunchuk adds taproot support (20:26)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #25504 (47:46)

Eclair #2234 (49:10)

LDK #1503 (50:03)

LND #6596 (53:30)

BOLTs #1004 (54:05)
...more
59min
August 18, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #213 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Lloyd Fournier to discuss Newsletter #213.

News
Using Bitcoin-compatible BLS signatures for DLCs (1:59)
Releases and release candidates
Rust Bitcoin 0.29 (40:47)

Core Lightning 0.12.0rc2 (43:02)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #23480 (43:19)

Bitcoin Core #22751 (44:50)

Eclair #2273 (47:34)

Eclair #2361 (50:27)

LND #6810 (52:03)

LND #6816 (53:10)

BDK #640 (53:58)
...more
56min
August 11, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #212 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Peter Todd, Larry Ruane, and Gloria Zhao to discuss Newsletter #212.

News
Lowering the default minimum transaction relay feerate (2:30)
Bitcoin Core PR Review Club
Decouple validation cache initialization from ArgsManager (31:25)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #25610 (45:50)

Bitcoin Core #24584 (49:27)

Core Lightning #5071 (53:55)

BDK #645 (55:05)

BOLTs #911 (56:02)
...more
1h 1min
August 03, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #211 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andrew Chow and Rodolfo Novak to discuss Newsletter #211.

News
Multiple derivation path descriptors (0:52)
Notable code and documentation changes
Core Lightning #5441 (23:26)

Eclair #2253 (24:33)

LDK #1519 (26:40)

Rust Bitcoin #994 (29:37)

Rust Bitcoin #1088 (32:50)
...more
37min
July 27, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #210 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ruben Somsen to discuss Newsletter #210.

News
Multiformat single-sig message signing (2:05)

Proof of micro-burn (9:43)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Why do invalid signatures in `OP_CHECKSIGADD` not push to the stack? (30:41)

What are packages in Bitcoin Core and what is their use case? (34:17)

How much blockspace would it take to spend the complete UTXO set? (37:43)

Does an uneconomical output need to be kept in the UTXO set? (39:37)

Is there code in libsecp256k1 that should be moved to the Bitcoin Core codebase? (47:07)

Mining stale low-difficulty blocks as a DoS attack (48:32)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #25351 (51:42)

Core Lightning #5370 (53:51)

BOLTs #1001 (56:25)
...more
59min

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How many episodes does Bitcoin Optech Podcast have?

The podcast currently has 147 episodes available.

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