Podcasts about optech

October 15, 2024 ~ Ronia Kruse, Co-Founder and CEO of Optech and Digital Lakes joins Paul W Smith live at the Detroit Economic Club.

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier to discuss ⁠Newsletter #323⁠. News Impending btcd security disclosure (0:54) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Core 28.0 (3:11) BDK 1.0.0-beta.5 (15:13) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #30043 (20:47) Bitcoin Core #30510 (22:15) Core Lightning #7644 (25:06) Eclair #2848 (26:28) Eclair #2860 (30:57) Eclair #2861 (29:17) Eclair #2875 (31:19) LDK #3303 (40:24) BDK #1616 (41:29) BIPs #1600 (46:02) BOLTs #798 (48:25)

Jon Atack and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao and Jonas Nick to discuss ⁠Newsletter #322⁠. News Disclosure of vulnerability affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 24.0.1 (2:01) Hybrid jamming mitigation testing and changes (17:51) Shielded client-side validation (CSV) (25:28) Draft of updated BIP process (48:47) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange What specific verifications are done on a fresh Bitcoin TX and in what order? (54:31) Why is my bitcoin directory larger than my pruning data limit setting? (55:42) What do I need to have set up to have `getblocktemplate` work? (58:19) Can a silent payment address body be brute forced? (1:00:02) Why does a tx fail `testmempoolaccept` BIP125 replacement but is accepted by `submitpackage`? (1:01:38) How does the ban score algorithm calculate a ban score for a peer? (1:03:53) Releases and release candidates BDK 1.0.0-beta.4 (1:06:41) Bitcoin Core 28.0rc2 (1:06:57) Notable code and documentation changes Eclair #2909 (1:10:15) LND #9095 (1:11:12) LND #8044 (1:11:55)

Rijndael and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andy Schroder and Virtu to discuss ⁠Newsletter #321⁠. News Proving UTXO set inclusion in zero knowledge (1:47) LN offline payments (11:32) DNS seeding for non-IP addresses (30:00) Changes to services and client software Strike adds BOLT12 support (42:15) BitBox02 adds silent payment support (43:29) The Mempool Open Source Project v3.0.0 released (45:22) ZEUS v0.9.0 released (46:39) Live Wallet adds consolidation support (47:04) Bisq adds Lightning support (48:30) Releases and release candidates HWI 3.1.0 (49:32) Core Lightning 24.08.1 (49:56) BDK 1.0.0-beta.4 (50:27) Bitcoin Core 28.0rc2 (51:04) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #28358 (52:23) Bitcoin Core #30286 (53:53) Bitcoin Core #30807 (55:24) LND #8981 (56:36) LDK #3140 (57:34) LDK #3163 (58:50) LDK #3010 (59:40) BDK #1581 (1:00:18) BDK #1561 (1:01:21)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bruno Garcia, Shehzan Maredia, Gloria Zhao, Fabian Jahr, and Gregory Sanders to discuss ⁠Newsletter #320⁠. News Mutation testing for Bitcoin Core (1:39) DLC-based loan contract execution (9:15) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Testing Bitcoin Core 28.0 Release Candidates (21:08) Releases and release candidates LND v0.18.3-beta (51:33) BDK 1.0.0-beta.2 (53:05) Bitcoin Core 28.0rc1 (53:14) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #30509 (53:38) Bitcoin Core #29605 (1:00:52)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Filippo Merli, Lorenzo Bonazzi, Matt Corallo, Eric Voskuil, and rkrux to discuss ⁠Newsletter #319⁠. News Stratum v2 extension for fee revenue sharing (1:49) OP_CAT research fund (17:53) Mitigating merkle tree vulnerabilities (22:43) Releases and release candidates Core Lightning 24.08 (55:21) LDK 0.0.124 (57:59) LND v0.18.3-beta.rc2 (1:06:19) BDK 1.0.0-beta.2 (1:06:43) Bitcoin Core 28.0rc1 (1:07:27) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #30454 (1:15:05) Bitcoin Core #22838 (1:17:41) Eclair #2865 (1:19:56) LND #9009 (1:21:49) LDK #3268 (1:23:33) BIPs #1657 (1:26:55)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jay Beddict to discuss ⁠Newsletter #318⁠. News New Bitcoin Mining Development mailing list (0:48) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange Can a BIP152 compact block be sent before validation by a node that doesn't know all transactions? (15:03) Did Segwit (BIP141) eliminate all txid malleability issues listed in BIP62? (18:13) Why are the checkpoints still in the codebase in 2024? (22:35) Bulletproof++ as generic ZKP ala SNARKs? (26:28) How can OP_CAT be used to implement additional covenants? (28:13) Why do some bech32 bitcoin addresses contain a large number of 'q's? (32:25) How does a 0-conf signature bond work? (37:29) Releases and release candidates Core Lightning 24.08rc2 (42:45) LND v0.18.3-beta.rc1 (43:13) BDK 1.0.0-beta.2 (43:43) Bitcoin Core 28.0rc1 (45:10) Notable code and documentation changes LDK #3263 (48:15) LDK #3247 (49:10) BDK #1569 (50:13)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bob McElrath and moonsettler to discuss ⁠Newsletter #317⁠. News Simple (but imperfect) anti-exfiltration protocol (0:53) Changes to services and client software Proton Wallet announced (23:33) CPUNet testnet announced (25:38) Lightning.Pub launches (38:52) Taproot Assets v0.4.0-alpha released (39:45) Stratum v2 benchmarking tool released (41:31) STARK verification PoC on signet (42:52) SeedSigner 0.8.0 released (48:48) Floresta 0.6.0 released (50:25) Releases and release candidates Core Lightning 24.08rc2 (51:52) LND v0.18.3-beta.rc1 (52:33) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #28553 (53:18) Bitcoin Core #30246 (56:39) Bitcoin Core GUI #824 (1:02:10) Core Lightning #7540 (1:04:20) Core Lightning #7403 (1:05:20) LND #8943 (1:06:13) BDK #1478 (1:07:26) BDK #1533 (1:08:12) BOLTs #1182 (1:11:49) BLIPs #39 (1:12:55)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier and Hennadii Stepanov to discuss Newsletter #316. News New time warp vulnerability in testnet4 (1:05) Onion message DoS risk discussion (14:20) Optional identification and authentication of LN payers (28:04) Bitcoin Core switch to CMake build system (36:15) Releases and release candidates BDK 1.0.0-beta.1 (53:55) Core Lightning 24.08rc2 (54:10) LND v0.18.3-beta.rc1 (54:29) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #29519 (55:01) Bitcoin Core #30598 (59:29) Bitcoin Core #28280 (1:02:18) Bitcoin Core #28052 (1:04:47) Core Lightning #7528 (1:08:01) Core Lightning #7533 (1:10:11) Core Lightning #7517 (1:11:19) LND #8955 (1:13:08) LND #8886 (1:14:39) LND #8967 (1:19:45) LDK #3215 (1:22:13) BLIPs #27 (1:26:27)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Corallo, Greg Sanders, Sivaram Dhakshinamoorthy to discuss ⁠Newsletter #315⁠. News Faster seed exfiltration attack (1:24) Block withholding attacks and potential solutions (17:21) Statistics on compact block reconstruction (21:47) Replacement cycle attack against pay-to-anchor (36:23) Proposed BIP for scriptless threshold signatures (42:24) Optimistic verification of zero-knowledge proofs using CAT, MATT, and Elftrace (50:40) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club (33:15) Releases and release candidates Libsecp256k1 0.5.1 (53:11) BDK 1.0.0-beta.1 (53:43) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #30493 (54:38) Bitcoin Core #30285 (57:33) Bitcoin Core #30352 (1:02:26) Bitcoin Core #29775 (1:02:39) Core Lightning #7476 (1:08:21) Eclair #2884 (1:08:55) LND #8952 (1:12:10) LND #8735 (1:13:40) BIPs #1601 (1:14:44)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sergi Delgado to discuss ⁠Newsletter #314⁠. News Disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 22.0 (0:56) Optimizing block building with cluster mempool (11:23) Hyperion network event simulator for the Bitcoin P2P network (14:30) Releases and release candidates BDK 1.0.0-beta.1 (41:01) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #30515 (41:36) Bitcoin Core #30126 (43:00) Bitcoin Core #30482 (44:18) Bitcoin Core #30275 (45:18) Bitcoin Core #30408 (47:29) Core Lightning #7474 (49:27) LND #8891 (51:21) LDK #3139 (51:57) Rust Bitcoin #3010 (52:48)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #313⁠. News Varied discussion of free relay and fee bumping upgrades (0:31) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange Why is restructure of mempool required with cluster mempool? (29:54) DEFAULT_MAX_PEER_CONNECTIONS for Bitcoin Core is 125 or 130? (36:32) Why do protocol developers work on maximizing miner revenue? (38:34) Is there an economic incentive to use P2WSH over P2TR? (42:26) How many blocks per second can sustainably be created using a time warp attack? (45:30) pkh() nested in tr() is allowed? (49:01) Can a block more than a week old be considered a valid chain tip? (51:25) SIGHASH_ANYONECANPAY mediated tx modification (57:35) Why does RBF rule #3 exist? (1:00:35) Releases and release candidates BDK 1.0.0-beta.1 (1:02:05) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #30320 (1:02:58) Bitcoin Core #29523 (1:07:42) Core Lightning #7461 (1:10:03) Eclair #2881 (1:11:06)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick and Pieter Wuille to discuss ⁠Newsletter #312⁠. News Distributed key generation protocol for FROST (1:37) Introduction to cluster linearization (28:45) Changes to services and client software ZEUS adds BOLT12 offers and BIP353 support (56:15) Phoenix adds BOLT12 offers and BIP353 support (57:02) Stack Wallet adds RBF and CPFP support (57:42) BlueWallet adds silent payment send support (57:59) BOLT12 Playground announced (59:10) Moosig testing repository announced (59:56) Real-time Stratum visualization tool released (1:01:01) BMM 100 Mini Miner announced (1:01:57) Coldcard publishes URL-based transaction broadcast specification (1:02:32) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #26596 (1:09:38) Core Lightning #7455 (1:11:27) Eclair #2878 (1:11:58) Rust Bitcoin #2646 (1:13:03) BDK #1489 (1:13:55) BIPs #1599 (1:15:22) BOLTs #1173 (1:17:50) BLIPs #25 (1:18:50)

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Vojtěch Strnad and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #311. News (1:00) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Testnet4 including PoW difficulty adjustment fix (15:14) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Core 26.2 (37:23) LND v0.18.2-beta (37:42) Notable code and documentation changes Rust Bitcoin #2949 (40:04) BDK #1487 (41:20)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot and Elle Mouton to discuss ⁠Newsletter #310⁠. News Disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 0.21.0 (0:59) Adding a BOLT11 invoice field for blinded paths (22:17) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Core 26.2rc1 (36:43) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #28167 (37:48) Bitcoin Core #30007 (39:07) Bitcoin Core #30200 (40:37) Core Lightning #7342 (41:33) LND #8796 (42:55) LDK #3125 (45:26) BIPs #1610 (46:21) BIPs #1540 (49:07)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt to discuss ⁠Newsletter #309⁠. News Estimating the likelihood that an LN payment is feasible (1:04) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange How is the progress of Initial Block Download (IBD) calculated? (31:25) What is `progress increase per hour` during synchronization? (33:50) Should an even Y coordinate be enforced after every key-tweak operation, or only at the end? (34:45) Signet mobile phone wallets? (37:28) What block had the most transaction fees? Why? (39:01) bitcoin-cli listtransactions fee amount is way off, why? (41:48) Did uncompressed public keys use the `04` prefix before compressed public keys were used? (44:57) What happens if an HTLC's value is below the dust limit? (46:34) How does subtractfeefrom work? (47:11) What's the difference between the 3 index directories blocks/index/, bitcoin/indexes and chainstate? (51:19) Releases and release candidates LND v0.18.1-beta (52:18) Bitcoin Core 26.2rc1 (53:02) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #29575 (53:29) Bitcoin Core #28984 (56:38) Core Lightning #7388 (1:00:28) LND #8734 (1:03:24) LDK #3127 (1:03:59) Rust Bitcoin #2794 (1:05:39) BDK #1395 (1:07:05) BIPs #1620 (1:08:55) BOLTs #869 (1:11:57)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jameson Lopp and Valentine Wallace to discuss ⁠Newsletter #308⁠. News Disclosure of vulnerability affecting old versions of LND (0:54) Continued discussion of PSBTs for silent payments (7:32) Changes to services and client software Casa adds descriptor support (10:55) Specter-DIY v1.9.0 released (40:52) Constant-time analysis tool cargo-checkct announced (41:26) Jade adds miniscript support (43:15) Ark implementation announced (45:32) Volt Wallet beta announced (46:42) Joinstr adds electrum support (47:20) Bitkit v1.0.1 released (47:50) Civkit alpha announced (48:20) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Core 26.2rc1 (49:01) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #29325 (50:11) Eclair #2867 (52:04) LND #8730 (52:33) LDK #3098 (28:14) LDK #3078 (32:35) LDK #3082 (33:53) LDK #3103 (35:18) LDK #3037 (38:07)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Hunter Beast and TheCharlatan to discuss Newsletter #307.

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Fabian Jahr, Anthony Towns, and Matt Corallo to discuss Newsletter #306. News Upcoming disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting old versions of Bitcoin Core (1:02) BIP and experimental implementation of testnet4 (10:17) Functional encryption covenants (24:58) Updates to proposed soft fork for 64-bit arithmetic (31:27) `OP_CAT` script to validate proof of work (33:32) Proposed update to BIP21 (42:12) Releases and release candidates Core Lightning 24.05rc2 (54:53) Bitcoin Core 27.1rc1 (55:51) Notable code and documentation changes Core Lightning #7252 (56:50) LDK #2931 (1:02:19) Rust Bitcoin #2644 (1:04:11) BIPs #1541 (1:05:19) BIPs #1556 (1:07:34) BLIPs #32 (1:09:28)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Setor Blagogee, Oghenovo Usiwoma, Pierre Rochard, and Alex Bosworth to discuss Newsletter #305. News Light client protocol for silent payments (1:52) Raw taproot descriptors (14:56) Should overlapping soft fork proposals be considered mutually exclusive? (28:02) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange What's the smallest possible coinbase transaction / block size? (1:13:32) Understanding Script's number encoding, CScriptNum (1:14:18) Is there a way to make a BTC wallet address public but hide how many BTC it contains? (1:16:04) Testing increased feerates in regtest (1:18:05) Why is my P2P_V2 peer connected over a v1 connection? (1:20:41) Does a P2PKH transaction send to the hash of the uncompressed key or the compressed key? (1:21:58) What are different ways to broadcast a block to the Bitcoin network? (1:23:20) Releases and release candidates LND v0.18.0-beta (43:23) Core Lightning 24.05rc2 (1:12:21) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #29612 (1:27:11) Bitcoin Core #27064 (1:29:59) Bitcoin Core #29873 (1:30:55) Bitcoin Core #30062 (1:34:15) Bitcoin Core #26606 (1:38:17) BOLTs #1092 (1:41:41)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andrew Toth, Antoine Poinsot, and Tony Klausing to discuss ⁠Newsletter #304⁠. News Upgrading existing LN channels (1:27) Challenges in rewarding pool miners (6:58) Spending previously received SP outputs (12:40) Proposed miniscript BIP (21:32) Channel value pegging (31:42) Changes to services and client software Silent payment resources (43:50) Cake Wallet adds silent payments (46:14) Coordinator-less coinjoin PoC (46:26) OCEAN adds BOLT12 support (47:10) Coinbase adds Lightning support (48:57) Bitcoin escrow tooling announced (49:20) Block's call for mining community feedback (49:48) Sentrum wallet tracker released (50:34) Stack Wallet adds FROST support (51:19) Transaction broadcast tool announced (53:41) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Inquisition 27.0 (56:30) LND v0.18.0-beta.rc2 (1:00:10) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #27101 (1:00:30) Bitcoin Core #30000 (1:01:27) Bitcoin Core #28233 (1:02:42) Core Lightning #7304 (1:09:41) Core Lightning #7063 (1:10:18) Rust Bitcoin #2740 (1:17:54)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Adam Gibson to discuss ⁠Newsletter #303⁠. News Anonymous usage tokens (1:58) BIP39 seed phrase splitting (31:48) Alternative to BitVM (38:05) Continued discussion about updating BIP2 (40:41) Releases and release candidates LND v0.18.0-beta.rc2 (44:25) Notable code and documentation changes Core Lightning #7190 (44:51) LDK #2973 (46:18) LDK #2907 (48:21) BDK #1403 (48:59) BIPs #1458 (50:57)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Calvin Kim to discuss ⁠Newsletter #302⁠. News Release of utreexod beta (0:56) BIP119 extensions for smaller hashes and arbitrary data commitments (20:15) Releases and release candidates LDK v0.0.123 (25:16) LND v0.18.0-beta.rc2 (26:08) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #29845 (28:16) Core Lightning #7111 (29:34) Libsecp256k1 #1518 (32:04) Rust Bitcoin #2707 (34:30) BIPs #1389 (37:29) BIPs #1567 (42:21) BIPs #1525 (44:08)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ethan Heilman and Gloria Zhao to discuss ⁠Newsletter #301⁠. News Consensus-enforced lamport signatures on top of ECDSA signatures (1:00) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Index TxOrphanage by wtxid, allow entries with same txid (31:04) Releases and release candidates Libsecp256k1 v0.5.0 (51:15) LND v0.18.0-beta.rc1 (52:12) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #28970 (26:33) Bitcoin Core #28016 (53:05) Bitcoin Core #29623 (57:00)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Tadge Dryja to discuss ⁠Newsletter #300⁠. News CTV-like exploding keys proposal (0:59) Analyzing a contract protocol with Alloy (13:07) Arrests of Bitcoin developers (22:37) CoreDev.tech Berlin event (28:53) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Inquisition 25.2 (31:35) LND v0.18.0-beta.rc1 (35:59) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #27679 (36:48) Core Lightning #7240 (39:39) Eclair #2851 (44:02) LND #8147 (45:49) LND #8627 (47:37) Libsecp256k1 #1058 (1:00:01) BIPs #1382 (1:02:01) BIPs #1068 (1:03:35)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gregory Sanders to discuss ⁠Newsletter #299⁠. News Weak blocks proof-of-concept implementation (0:56) BIP editors update (20:08) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange Where exactly is the off-by-one difficulty bug? (26:44) How is P2TR different than P2PKH using opcodes from a developer perspective? (32:10) Are replacement transactions larger in size than their predecessors and than non-RBF transactions? (34:15) Are Bitcoin signatures still vulnerable to nonce reuse? (36:59) How do miners manually add transactions to a block template? (39:48) Releases and release candidates LND v0.17.5-beta (41:40) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #29850 (46:35)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #298⁠. News What would have happened if cluster mempool had been deployed a year ago? (0:42) Changes to services and client software Phoenix for server announced (19:26) Mercury Layer adds Lightning swaps (21:32) Stratum V2 Reference Implementation v1.0.0 released (22:46) Teleport Transactions update (25:09) Bitcoin Keeper v1.2.1 released (28:10) BIP-329 label management software (29:02) Key agent Sigbash launches (31:37) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Core 27.0 (35:19) BTCPay Server 1.13.1 (41:50) LDK 0.0.122 (42:55) Notable code and documentation changes LDK #2704 (44:40)

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Kulpreet Singh, Chris Stewart, Jameson Lopp, and Joost Jager to discuss ⁠Newsletter #297⁠. News DSL for experimenting with contracts (1:24) Updating BIP2 (15:50) Discussion about resetting and modifying testnet (21:00) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Implement 64 bit arithmetic op codes in the Script interpreter (37:19) Releases and release candidates HWI 3.0.0 (46:17) Core Lightning 24.02.2 (48:06) Bitcoin Core 27.0rc1 (49:41) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #29648 (50:25) Bitcoin Core #29130 (21:00)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot to discuss ⁠Newsletter #296⁠. News Revisiting consensus cleanup (0:46) Choosing new BIP editors (27:21) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Core 26.1 (37:22) Bitcoin Core 27.0rc1 (39:09) HWI 3.0.0-rc1 (39:40) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #27307 (40:59) Bitcoin Core #29242 (43:50) Core Lightning #7094 (52:59) BDK #1351 (54:41)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, Peter Todd, Abubakar Sadiq Ismail, David Gumberg, and Jeffrey Czyz to discuss Newsletter #295. News Disclosure of free relay attack (1:22) Transaction fee sponsorship improvements (9:55) Mempool-based feerate estimation (34:49) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange What are the risks of running a pre-SegWit node (0.12.1)? (50:30) When is OP_RETURN cheaper than OP_FALSE OP_IF? (55:51) Why does BIP-340 use secp256k1? (56:33) What criteria does Bitcoin Core use to create block templates? (58:08) How does the initialblockdownload field in the getblockchaininfo RPC work? (1:04:45) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Core 26.1rc2 (1:07:34) Bitcoin Core 27.0rc1 (1:07:55) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #28950 (1:17:13) LND #8418 (1:19:07) LDK #2756 (1:23:44) LDK #2935 (1:25:55) LDK #2419 (1:27:39) Rust Bitcoin #2549 (1:32:54) BTCPay Server #5852 (1:33:36)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner, Anthony Towns, and Russell O'Connor to discuss ⁠Newsletter #294⁠. News BIP324 proxy for light clients (1:20) Overview of BTC Lisp (10:44) Changes to services and client software BitGo adds RBF support (38:59) Phoenix Wallet v2.2.0 released (40:11) Bitkey hardware signing device released (44:19) Envoy v1.6.0 released (47:49) VLS v0.11.0 released (49:22) Portal hardware signing device announced (50:54) Braiins mining pool adds Lightning support (51:44) Ledger Bitcoin App 2.2.0 released (54:14) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Core 26.1rc2 (55:51) Bitcoin Core 27.0rc1 (56:48) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #27375 (57:43) Bitcoin Core #27114 (58:59) Bitcoin Core #29306 (1:02:19) LND #8310 (1:09:04) Rust Bitcoin #2458 (1:10:12)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj, Anthony Towns, and Armin Sabouri to discuss Newsletter #293. News Trustless onchain betting on potential soft forks (1:11) Overview of Chia Lisp for Bitcoiners (14:06) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Re enable `OP_CAT` (35:48) Releases and release candidates Core Lightning v24.02.1 (50:33) Bitcoin Core 26.1rc1 (51:03) Bitcoin Core 27.0rc1 (52:11) Notable code and documentation changes LND #8136 (54:58) LND #8499 (57:26) LDK #2916 (58:31)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Josie Baker, Salvatore Ingala, and Fabian Jahr to discuss ⁠Newsletter #292⁠. News Updating BIP21 `bitcoin:` URIs (18:07) PSBTs for multiple concurrent MuSig2 signing sessions (46:30) Discussion about adding more BIP editors (58:33) GitLab backup for Bitcoin Core GitHub project (1:11) Releases and release candidates Eclair v0.10.0 (1:03:24) Bitcoin Core 26.1rc1 (1:05:18) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #29412 (1:06:53) Eclair #2829 (1:17:29) LND #8378 (1:19:06) BIPs #1421 (1:20:28)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Richard Myers, Rijndael, Luke Dashjr, and Jason Hughes to discuss Newsletter #291. News Trustless contract for miner feerate futures (1:31) Coin selection for liquidity providers (7:18) Simple vault prototype using `OP_CAT` (21:15) Sending and receiving ecash using LN and ZKCPs (44:44) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange Why can't nodes have the relay option to disallow certain transaction types? (49:41) What is the circular dependency in signing a chain of unconfirmed transactions? (53:28) How does Ocean's TIDES payout scheme work? (34:02) What data does the Bitcoin Core wallet search for during a blockchain rescan? (57:57) How does transaction rebroadcasting for watch-only wallets work? (59:37) Releases and release candidates Core Lightning 24.02 (1:02:20) Notable code and documentation changes LDK #2770 (1:04:20)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, callebtc, Chris Stewart, Fabian Jahr, and Pierre Corbin to discuss ⁠Newsletter #290⁠. News DNS-based human-readable Bitcoin payment instructions (1:41) Thinking about mempool incentive compatibility (9:50) Cashu and other ecash system design discussion (29:15) Continued discussion about 64-bit arithmetic and `OP_INOUT_AMOUNT` opcode (39:52) Improved reproducible ASMap creation process (49:17) Changes to services and client software Multiparty coordination protocol NWC announced (1:11:00) Mutiny Wallet v0.5.7 released (1:19:07) GroupHug transaction batching service (1:19:48) Boltz announces taproot swaps (1:22:43) Releases and release candidates Core Lightning 24.02rc1 (1:24:07) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #27877 (1:24:58) BOLTs #851 (1:29:00)

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gregory Sanders and Gloria Zhao to discuss Newsletter #289. News Ideas for relay enhancements after cluster mempool is deployed (1:11) What would have happened if v3 semantics had been applied to anchor outputs a year ago? (25:55) Bitcoin-Dev mailing list move (35:47) I Love Free Software Day (37:56) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Add `maxfeerate` and `maxburnamount` args to `submitpackage` (39:57) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #28948 (46:24) Core Lightning #6785 (49:39) Eclair #2818 (50:18) Eclair #2816 (52:29) LND #8338 (56:20) LDK #2856 (56:56) LDK #2442 (59:09) Rust Bitcoin #2451 (59:39)

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier and Eugene Siegel to discuss Newsletter #288. News Public disclosure of a block stalling bug in Bitcoin Core affecting LN (1:26) Securely opening zero-conf channels with v3 transactions (17:08) Requirement to verify inputs use segwit in protocols vulnerable to txid malleability (27:00) Proposal for replace by feerate to escape pinning (35:21) Bitcoin-Dev mailing list migration update (51:15) Releases and release candidates LND v0.17.4-beta (1:00:02) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #29189 (1:01:13) Bitcoin Core #28956 (1:07:23) Bitcoin Core #29347 (1:10:03) Core Lightning #6985 (1:10:45) Core Lightning #6904 (1:12:54) Core Lightning #7022 (1:14:53) Core Lightning #6936 (1:16:16) LND #8345 (1:18:02)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao and Brandon Black to discuss ⁠Newsletter #287⁠. News Kindred replace by fee (1:10) Opposition to CTV based on commonly requiring exogenous fees (19:11) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange How does block synchronization work in Bitcoin Core today? (28:14) How does headers-first prevent disk-fill attack? (30:31) Is BIP324 v2transport redundant on Tor and I2P connections? (33:57) What's a rule of thumb for setting the maximum number of connections? (34:57) Why isn't the upper bound (+2h) on the block timestamp set as a consensus rule? (37:01) Sigop count and its influence on transaction selection? (43:22) Releases and release candidates HWI 2.4.0 (48:03) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #29291 (48:41) Eclair #2811 (49:23) LND #8167 (52:10) LND #7733 (53:01) LND #8275 (54:01) Rust Bitcoin #2366 (56:34) HWI #716 (58:35) BDK #1172 (58:49) BINANAs #3 (59:29)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Niklas Gögge, Bastien Teinturier, Anthony Towns, Gloria Zhao, Nicholas Gregory, and Tom Trevethan to discuss ⁠Newsletter #286⁠. News Disclosure of fixed consensus failure in btcd (1:33) Proposed changes to LN for v3 relay and ephemeral anchors (13:40) New documentation repository (29:56) Changes to services and client software Envoy 1.5 released (45:41) Liana v4.0 released (46:39) Mercury Layer announced (47:46) AQUA wallet announced (57:18) Samourai Wallet announces atomic swap feature (57:49) Releases and release candidates LDK 0.0.120 (58:37) HWI 2.4.0-rc1 (59:11) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #29239 (59:37) Eclair #2810 (1:02:16) LDK #2791 (1:05:32) Rust Bitcoin #2230 (1:07:43)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Brandon Black, Chris Stewart, Gregory Sanders, and Oliver Gugger to discuss ⁠Newsletter #285⁠. News Disclosure of past vulnerability in Core Lightning (2:15) New LNHANCE combination soft fork proposed (4:59) Proposal for 64-bit arithmetic soft fork (21:08) Overview of cluster mempool proposal (38:25) Updated specification and implementation of Bitcoin transaction compression (45:22) Discussion of Miner Extractable Value (MEV) in non-zero ephemeral anchors (46:51) Releases and release candidates LDK 0.0.119 (56:24) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #29058 (57:17) Bitcoin Core #29200 (58:59) Bitcoin Core #28890 (1:00:08) Eclair #2808 (1:01:25) LND #8188 (1:02:09) LND #8096 (1:07:44) LND #8095 (1:09:08)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Gregory Sanders, Dave Harding, and Stéphan Vuylsteke to discuss Newsletter #284. News Discussion about LN anchors and v3 transaction relay proposal (1:03) LN-Symmetry research implementation (35:03) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Nuke adjusted time (attempt 2) (50:01) Notable code and documentation changes LND #8308 (1:05:06)

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Niklas Gögge, Antoine Riard, Abubakar Sadiq Ismail, Gloria Zhao, Salvatore Ingala, Johan Torås Halseth and SeedHammer Team to discuss Newsletter #283. News Disclosure of past LND vulnerabilities (2:07) Fee-dependent timelocks (25:09) Cluster fee estimation (8:32) How to specify unspendable keys in descriptors (17:48) V3 transaction pinning costs (34:14) Descriptors in PSBT draft BIP (48:19) Verification of arbitrary programs using proposed opcode from MATT (57:52) Pool exit payment batching with delegation using fraud proofs (1:04:59) New coin selection strategies (1:14:36) Releases and release candidates Core Lightning 23.11.2 (1:17:57) Libsecp256k1 0.4.1 (1:18:14) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #28349 (1:19:06) Core Lightning #6957 (1:20:21) Core Lightning #6869 (1:21:15) Eclair #2796 (1:21:47) Eclair #2787 (1:22:23) LDK #2781 (1:23:14) LDK #2723 (1:24:16) BIPs #1504 (1:25:00)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Dave Harding, and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #282: 2023 Year-in-Review Special⁠. January Bitcoin Inquisition (10:59) Swap-in-potentiam (14:03) BIP329 wallet label export format (19:32) February Ordinals and inscriptions (20:22) Bitcoin Search, ChatBTC, and TL;DR (41:50) Peer storage backups (43:40) LN quality of service (44:10) HTLC endorsement (47:31) Codex32 (48:33) March Hierarchical channels (50:57) Summary 2023: Soft fork proposals (54:22) April Watchtower accountability proofs (1:04:24) Route blinding (1:05:58) MuSig2 (1:08:36) RGB and Taproot Assets (1:12:47) Channel splicing (1:16:06) May LSP specifications (1:21:10) Payjoin (1:23:07) Ark (1:27:40) June Silent payments (1:30:33) Summary 2023: Security disclosures (1:32:34) July Validating Lightning Signer (1:36:10) LN developer meeting (1:38:00) August Onion messages (1:38:28) Outdated backup proofs (1:41:52) Simple taproot channels (1:44:39) September Compressed Bitcoin transactions (1:46:40) Summary 2023: Major releases of popular infrastructure projects (1:48:19) October Payment switching and splitting (1:49:46) Sidepools (1:51:30) AssumeUTXO (1:55:28) Version 2 P2P transport (1:55:51) Miniscript (1:57:18) State compression and BitVM (2:00:07) November Offers (2:05:53) Liquidity advertisements (2:08:26) Summary 2023: Bitcoin Optech (1:11) December Cluster mempool (2:11:10) Warnet (2:13:12)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Bastien Teinturier and Rodolfo Novak to discuss Newsletter #281. News Discussion about griefing liquidity ads (0:46) Changes to services and client software Stratum v2 mining pool launches (15:43) Bitcoin network simulation tool warnet announced (16:31) Payjoin client for Bitcoin Core released (17:30) Call for community block arrival timestamps (18:44) Envoy 1.4 released (21:41) BBQr encoding scheme announced (22:09) Zeus v0.8.0 released (22:45) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange What are all the rules related to CPFP fee bumping? (25:16) How is the total number of RBF replaced transactions calculated? (29:41) What types of RBF exist and which one does Bitcoin Core support and use by default? (31:37) What is the Block 1,983,702 Problem? (34:48) What are hash functions used for in bitcoin? (45:12) Releases and release candidates LND 0.17.3-beta (51:59) Notable code and documentation changes LDK #2685 (52:22) Libsecp256k1 #1446 (53:04) BTCPay Server #5389 (53:36) BTCPay Server #5490 (59:54)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Pieter Wuille and Matthew Zipkin to discuss Newsletter #280. News Cluster mempool discussion (0:57) Testing with warnet (32:42) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Testing Bitcoin Core 26.0 Release Candidates (43:18) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Core 26.0 (45:30) LND 0.17.3-beta.rc1 (57:41) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #28848 (58:49) LDK #2540 (59:49)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Lisa Neigut and Bastien Teinturier to discuss Newsletter #279. News Update to the liquidity ads specification (1:00) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange Is the Schnorr digital signature scheme a multisignature interactive scheme, and also not an aggregated non-interactive scheme? (38:49) Is it advisable to operate a release candidate full node on mainnet? (41:40) What is the relation between nLockTime and nSequence? (44:40) What would happen if we provide to OP_CHECKMULTISIG more than threshold number (m) of signatures? (52:18) What is (mempool) policy? (54:30) What does Pay to Contract (P2C) mean? (57:31) Can a non-segwit transaction be serialized in the segwit format? (58:18) Releases and release candidates Core Lightning 23.11 (1:00:05) Bitcoin Core 26.0rc3 (1:03:31) Notable code and documentation changes Rust Bitcoin #2213 (1:04:55) BDK #1190 (1:09:04)

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