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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #318 Recap

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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)
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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)
  continue reading

149 episodes

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