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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #307 Recap
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Hunter Beast and TheCharlatan to discuss Newsletter #307.
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Hunter Beast and TheCharlatan to discuss Newsletter #307.
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1 Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #354 Recap 1:23:10
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Eugene Siegel, Chris Stewart, Bram Cohen, and Robin Linus to discuss Newsletter #353 . News ● Vulnerability disclosure affecting old versions of Bitcoin Core (1:17) Changing consensus ● Proposed BIP for 64-bit arithmetic in Script (5:28) ● Proposed opcodes for enabling recursive covenants through quines (23:11) ● Description of benefits to BitVM from `OP_CTV` and `OP_CSFS` (36:39) Releases and release candidates ● LND 0.19.0-beta.rc4 (1:07:28) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #32155 (1:08:27) ● Bitcoin Core #28710 (1:09:38) ● Core Lightning #8272 (1:13:28) ● LND #8330 (1:14:09) ● Rust Bitcoin #4458 (1:14:52) ● BIPs #1848 (1:04:33) ● BIPs #1841 (1:16:25) ● BIPs #1821 (1:16:42)…
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ruben Somsen, Salvatore Ingala, and Stéphan Vuylsteke to discuss Newsletter #353 . News ● BIP30 consensus failure vulnerability (0:52) ● Avoiding BIP32 path reuse (28:33) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club ● Add bitcoin wrapper executable (16:38) Releases and release candidates ● LND 0.19.0-beta.rc4 (45:01) Notable code and documentation changes ● Core Lightning #8227 (45:18) ● Core Lightning #8162 (46:43) ● Core Lightning #8166 (47:44) ● Core Lightning #8237 (48:49) ● LDK #3700 (49:28) ● Rust Bitcoin #4387 (49:55) ● BIPs #1835 (50:15) ● BIPs #1800 (55:03) ● BOLTs #1245 (56:37)…
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1 Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #352 Recap 1:13:07
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Sjors Provoost discuss Newsletter #352 . News ● Comparison of cluster linearization techniques (0:41) ● Increasing or removing Bitcoin Core's `OP_RETURN` size limit (6:46) Releases and release candidates ● LND 0.19.0-beta.rc3 (1:01:16) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #31250 (1:02:10) ● Eclair #3064 (1:06:02) ● BTCPay Server #6684 (1:07:46) ● BIPs #1555 (1:10:34)…
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1 Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #351 Recap 1:11:29
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick and Salvatore Ingala to discuss Newsletter #351 . News ● Interactive aggregate signatures compatible with secp256k1 (0:50) ● Standardized backup for wallet descriptors (21:34) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange ● Practicality of half-aggregated schnorr signatures? (17:16) ● What's the largest size OP_RETURN payload ever created? (41:17) ● Non-LN explanation of pay-to-anchor? (43:29) ● Up-to-date statistics about chain reorganizations? (48:08) ● Are Lightning channels always P2WSH? (52:33) ● Child-pays-for-parent as a defense against a double spend? (53:40) ● What values does CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY hash? (59:06) ● Why can't Lightning nodes opt to reveal channel balances for better routing efficiency? (59:32) ● Does post-quantum require hard fork or soft fork? (1:02:27) Releases and release candidates ● LND 0.19.0-beta.rc3 (1:07:39) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #31247 (1:07:58) ● LDK #3601 (1:10:14)…
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Niklas Gögge to discuss Newsletter #350 . Changes to services and client software ● Bitcoin Knots version 28.1.knots20250305 released (11:26) ● PSBTv2 explorer announced (13:51) ● LNbits v1.0.0 released (14:38) ● The Mempool Open Source Project® v3.2.0 released (15:22) ● Coinbase MPC library released (17:25) ● Lightning Network liquidity tool released (21:20) ● Versioned Storage Service announced (22:25) ● Fuzz testing tool for Bitcoin nodes (1:17) ● Bitcoin Control Board components open-sourced (23:50) Releases and release candidates ● Bitcoin Core 29.0 (25:13) ● LND 0.19.0-beta.rc2 (34:41) Notable code and documentation changes ● LDK #3593 (35:04) ● BOLTs #1242 (35:57) Correction (37:38)…
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner, Ruben Somsen, and Abubakar Sadiq Ismail to discuss Newsletter #349 . News ● SwiftSync speedup for initial block download (0:34) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club ● Add Fee rate Forecaster Manager (29:33) Releases and release candidates ● Core Lightning 25.02.1 (46:54) ● Core Lightning 24.11.2 (47:03) ● BTCPay Server 2.1.0 (48:14) ● Bitcoin Core 29.0rc3 (49:25) ● LND 0.19.0-beta.rc2 (51:21) Notable code and documentation changes ● LDK #2256 (53:52) ● LND #9669 (56:16) ● Rust Bitcoin #4302 (57:24)…
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1 Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #348 Recap 2:18:29
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick, Jameson Lopp, Steven Roose, Gregory Sanders, and Salvatore Ingala to discuss Newsletter #348 . News ● Educational and experimental-based secp256k1 implementation (1:09) Changing consensus ● Should vulnerable bitcoins be destroyed? (9:17) ● Securely proving UTXO ownership by revealing a SHA256 preimage (34:52) ● Draft BIP for destroying quantum-insecure bitcoins (44:01) ● Criticism of CTV motivation (51:16) ● CTV+CSFS benefits (1:06:02) ● Benefit of CTV to Ark users (1:24:37) ● OP_CHECKCONTRACTVERIFY semantics (1:31:49) ● Draft BIP published for consensus cleanup (1:58:29) Releases and release candidates ● BDK wallet 1.2.0 (2:06:03) ● LDK v0.1.2 (2:06:48) ● Bitcoin Core 29.0rc3 (2:07:13) ● LND 0.19.0-beta.rc1 (2:08:36) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #31363 (2:09:03) ● Bitcoin Core #31278 (2:09:44) ● Eclair #3050 (2:12:41) ● Eclair #2963 (2:13:54) ● Eclair #3045 (2:14:44) ● LDK #3670 (2:15:47) ● LND #9620 (2:16:24)…
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1 Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #347 Recap 1:17:40
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sjors Provoost and Antoine Poinsot to discuss Newsletter #347 . News ● LN upfront and hold fees using burnable outputs (0:54) ● Discussion of testnets 3 and 4 (5:11) ● Plan to relay certain taproot annexes (19:01) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange ● Why is the witness commitment optional? (24:58) ● Can all consensus valid 64 byte transactions be (third party) malleated to change their size? (36:39) ● How long does it take for a transaction to propagate through the network? (47:37) ● Utility of longterm fee estimation (49:31) ● Why are two anchor outputs are used in the LN? (54:34) ● Why are there no BIPs in the 2xx range? (57:19) ● Why doesn't Bech32 use the character b? (59:55) ● Bech32 error detection and correction reference implementation (1:00:23) ● How to safely spend/burn dust? (1:02:48) ● How is the refund transaction in Asymmetric Revocable Commitments constructed? (1:07:34) ● Which applications use ZMQ with Bitcoin Core? (42:15) Releases and release candidates ● Bitcoin Core 29.0rc2 (1:08:21) ● LND 0.19.0-beta.rc1 (1:08:55) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #31603 (45:12) ● Eclair #3044 (1:09:45) ● Eclair #3026 (1:10:38) ● LDK #3649 (1:11:02) ● LDK #3665 (1:11:59) ● LND #8453 (1:14:28) ● BIPs #1792 (1:16:00) ● BIPs #1782 (1:16:40)…
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1 Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #346 Recap 1:21:47
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse, Yong Yu, Alejandro De La Torre, Jan B, and Marco De Leon to discuss Newsletter #346 . News ● Discussion of LND's dynamic feerate adjustment system (1:24) Changes to services and client software ● Wally 1.4.0 released (17:17) ● Bitcoin Core Config Generator announced (18:05) ● A regtest development environment container (18:55) ● Explora transaction visualization tool (20:17) ● Hashpool v0.1 tagged (21:35) ● DMND launching pooled mining (24:36) ● Krux adds taproot and miniscript (22:21) ● Source-available secure element announced (23:01) ● Nunchuk launches Group Wallet (45:04) ● FROSTR protocol announced (46:03) ● Bark launches on signet (46:57) ● Cove Bitcoin wallet announced (48:43) Releases and release candidates ● Bitcoin Core 29.0rc2 (50:38) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #31649 (1:03:19) ● Bitcoin Core #31283 (37:27) ● Eclair #3037 (1:15:29) ● LND #9546 (1:16:33) ● LND #9458 (1:17:17) ● BTCPay Server #6581 (1:18:10) ● BDK #1839 (1:20:59) ● BOLTs #1233 (15:39)…
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sindura Saraswathi, Christian Kümmerle, and Stéphan Vuylsteke to discuss Newsletter #345 . News ● P2P traffic analysis (1:35) ● Research into single-path LN pathfinding (6:45) ● Probabilistic payments using different hash functions as an xor function (21:17) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club ● Stricter internal handling of invalid blocks (26:12) Releases and release candidates ● Eclair v0.12.0 (37:49) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #31407 (38:52) ● Eclair #3027 (43:22) ● Eclair #3007 (44:17) ● Eclair #2976 (44:57) ● LDK #3608 (47:17) ● LDK #3624 (48:12) ● LDK #3016 (50:28) ● LDK #3629 (52:15) ● BDK #1838 (53:06)…
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1 Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #344 Recap 1:21:44
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse, Matt Corallo, and Hunter Beast to discuss Newsletter #344 . News ● Disclosure of fixed LND vulnerability allowing theft (0:57) ● Discussion about Bitcoin Core's priorities (10:49) Changing consensus ● Bitcoin Forking Guide (1:01:11) ● Update on BIP360 pay-to-quantum-resistant-hash (P2QRH) (34:37) ● Private block template marketplace to prevent centralizing MEV (21:06) Releases and release candidates ● Core Lightning 25.02 (1:09:57) Notable code and documentation changes ● Eclair #3019 (1:11:21) ● Eclair #3016 (1:12:05) ● LDK #3342 (33:13) ● Rust Bitcoin #4114 (1:12:50) ● Rust Bitcoin #4111 (1:14:29) ● BIPs #1758 (1:15:09) ● BIPs #1750 (1:17:07) ● BIPs #1712 (1:18:10)…
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Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #343 .
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Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier and Joost Jager discuss Newsletter #342 . News ● Allowing mobile wallets to settle channels without extra UTXOs (0:59) ● Continued discussion about an LN quality of service flag (13:14) Changes to services and client software ● Ark Wallet SDK released (40:28) ● Zaprite adds BTCPay Server support (40:57) ● Iris Wallet desktop released (41:21) ● Sparrow 2.1.0 released (41:41) ● Scure-btc-signer 1.6.0 released (42:38) ● Py-bitcoinkernel alpha (43:48) ● Rust-bitcoinkernel library (44:30) ● BIP32 cbip32 library (45:56) ● Lightning Loop moves to MuSig2 (46:22) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #27432 (47:01) ● Bitcoin Core #30529 (48:29) ● Bitcoin Core #31384 (49:42) ● Core Lightning #8059 (50:52) ● Core Lightning #7985 (53:41) ● Core Lightning #7887 (54:32) ● Eclair #2967 (26:06) ● Eclair #2979 (32:24) ● Eclair #3002 (34:32) ● LDK #3575 (57:35) ● LDK #3562 (23:51) ● BOLTs #1205 (26:13)…
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #341 . News ● Continued discussion about probabilistic payments (0:34) ● Continued discussion about ephemeral anchor scripts for LN (7:26) ● Stats on orphan evictions (14:31) ● Updated proposal for updated BIP process (27:08) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club ● Cluster mempool: introduce TxGraph (35:43) Releases and release candidates ● LND v0.18.5-beta (43:48) ● Bitcoin Inquisition 28.1 (44:10) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #25832 (51:43) ● Eclair #2989 (55:49) ● LDK #3440 (56:36) ● LND #9470 (57:14) ● BTCPay Server #6580 (58:15)…
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1 Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #340 Recap 2:43:04
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse, Johan Halseth, Pieter Wuille, Sergi Delgado, Bastien Teinturier, Oleksandr Kurbatov, Antoine Poinsot and Bob McElrath to discuss Newsletter #340 . News ● Channel force closure vulnerability in LDK (2:14) ● Zero-knowledge gossip for LN channel announcements (16:01) ● Discovery of previous research for finding optimal cluster linearization (26:29) ● Erlay update (46:38) ● Tradeoffs in LN ephemeral anchor scripts (1:09:50) ● Emulating OP_RAND (1:30:30) ● Discussion about lowering the minimum transaction relay feerate (1:36:33) Changing consensus ● Updates to cleanup soft fork proposal (1:43:46) ● Request for a covenant design supporting Braidpool (2:28:59) ● Deterministic transaction selection from a committed mempool (2:04:52) ● Fast difficulty adjustment algorithm for a DAG blockchain (2:19:24) Releases and release candidates ● BDK Wallet 1.1.0 (2:39:15) ● LND v0.18.5-beta.rc1 (2:39:43) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #21590 (38:58) ● Eclair #2983 (1:23:30) ● Eclair #2968 (1:27:53) ● LDK #3556 (2:40:31) ● LND #9456 (2:41:10)…
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