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Bitcoin Optech Podcast episodes

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)
41 min
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.

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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)
1 hr 19 min
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.

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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)
1 hr 15 min
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.

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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)
1 hr 4 min
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)
51 min
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)
45 min
September 01, 2022Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #215 Recap
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Craig Raw to discuss Newsletter #215.

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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)
1 hr 5 min
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.

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

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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)
56 min
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)
1 hr 1 min