Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #341 Recap

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hace un año 59:32

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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)

144 episodios

Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #341 Recap

Bitcoin Optech Podcast

published hace un año

MP3•Episodio en casa

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)

144 episodios

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #350 Recap 41:52

hace 6 días41:52

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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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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #349 Recap 58:57

hace 7 días58:57

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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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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #348 Recap 2:18:29

hace 8 días2:18:29

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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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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #347 Recap 1:17:40

hace 27 días1:17:40

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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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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #346 Recap 1:21:47

hace 5 weeks1:21:47

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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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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #345 Recap 54:13

hace 5 weeks54:13

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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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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #344 Recap 1:21:44

hace 7 weeks1:21:44

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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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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #343 Recap 54:20

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Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #343 .

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #342 Recap 58:38

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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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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #341 Recap 59:32

hace 10 weeks59:32

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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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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #340 Recap 2:43:04

hace 10 weeks2:43:04

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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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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #339 Recap 1:15:58

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Matt Morehouse and 0xB10C to discuss Newsletter #339 . News ● Vulnerability in LDK claim processing (0:47) ● Replacement cycling attacks with miner exploitation (17:28) ● Updated stats on compact block reconstruction (23:56) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange ● Who uses or wants to use PSBTv2 (BIP370)? (32:38) ● In the bitcoin's block genesis, which parts can be filled arbitrarily? (34:41) ● Lightning force close detection (36:47) ● Is a segwit-formatted transaction with all inputs of non-witness program type valid? (40:01) ● P2TR Security Question (41:41) ● What exactly is being done today to make Bitcoin quantum-safe? (44:27) ● What are the harmful effects of a shorter inter-block time? (47:57) ● Could proof-of-work be used to replace policy rules? (51:19) ● How does MuSig work in real Bitcoin scenarios? (54:54) ● How does the -blocksxor switch that obfuscates the blocks.dat files work? (57:18) ● How does the related key attack on Schnorr signatures work? (59:42) Releases and release candidates ● LDK v0.1.1 (1:01:19) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #31376 (1:03:24) ● Bitcoin Core #31583 (1:04:48) ● Bitcoin Core #31590 (1:05:40) ● Eclair #2982 (1:07:17) ● BDK #1614 (1:11:39) ● BOLTs #1110 (1:12:08)…

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #338 Recap 49:31

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andrew Toth and Dave Harding to discuss ⁠Newsletter #338⁠ . News - Draft BIP for unspendable keys in descriptors (0:49) - PSBTv2 integration testing (9:55) - Correction about offchain DLCs (15:25) Changes to services and client software - Bull Bitcoin Mobile Wallet adds payjoin (28:10) - Bitcoin Keeper adds miniscript support (28:52) - Nunchuk adds taproot MuSig2 features (29:26) - Jade Plus signing device announced (32:08) - Coinswap v0.1.0 released (32:36) - Bitcoin Safe 1.0.0 released (35:14) - Bitcoin Core 28.0 policy demonstration (35:41) - Rust-payjoin 0.21.0 released (36:21) - PeerSwap v4.0rc1 (37:34) - Joinpool prototype using CTV (38:24) - Rust joinstr library announced (39:58) - Strata bridge announced (40:36) Releases and release candidates - BTCPay Server 2.0.6 (41:41) Notable code and documentation changes - Bitcoin Core #31397 (42:19) - Eclair #2896 (44:21) - LDK #3408 (46:02) - LND #9405 (47:57)…

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #337 Recap 52:42

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by vnprc to discuss ⁠⁠Newsletter #337⁠⁠ . News - Continued discussion about rewarding pool miners with tradeable ecash shares (0:35) - Offchain DLCs (38:32) Releases and release candidates - LDK v0.1 (39:34) Notable code and documentation changes - Eclair #2936 (41:32) - Rust Bitcoin #3792 (42:46) - BDK #1789 (43:42) - BIPs #1687 (46:39) - BIPs #1396 (50:15)…

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #336 Recap 47:06

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