Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Russell O’Connor, Olaoluwa Osuntokun, and Jeremy Rubin to discuss Newsletter #370.

Changing consensus

● Details about the design of Simplicity (37:56…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #368.

News

● Draft BIP for block template sharing (0:30)

● Trusted delegation of script evaluation (28:07)

Changes to services and client softwa…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bruno Garcia and Liam Eagen to discuss Newsletter #369.

News

● Update on differential fuzzing of Bitcoin and LN implementations (24:56)

● Garbled loc…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #367⁠.

Releases and release candidates

● LND v0.19.3-beta.rc1 (0:19)

● Bitcoin Core 29.1rc1 (0:46)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitc…

Gloria Zhao and Mike Schmidt are joined by Tadge Dryja and Anthony Towns to discuss ⁠Newsletter #366⁠.

News

● Draft BIPs proposed for Utreexo (1:03)

● Continued discussion about lowering the minimum re…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by David Gumberg, Lauren Shareshian, Jameson Lopp, Steven Roose, and Tim Ruffing to discuss Newsletter #365.

News

● Testing compact block prefilling (1:…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse and Jesse Posner to discuss ⁠Newsletter #364⁠.

News

● LND gossip filter DoS vulnerability (0:53)

● Chain code withholding for multisig…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Davidson Souza to discuss ⁠Newsletter #363⁠.

Changes to services and client software

● Floresta v0.8.0 released (0:45)

● RGB v0.12 announced (20:38)

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Josh Doman and Gloria Zhao to discuss ⁠Newsletter #362⁠.

News

● Compressed descriptors (0:34)

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club

● Improve TxOrphanage denial…

Sanket Kanjalkar, Jonas Nick, Tadge Dryja, Steven Roose, and Brandon Black join Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt to discuss Newsletter #361.

News

● Separating onion message relay from HTLC relay (…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Daniela Brozzoni and Naiyoma to discuss ⁠Newsletter #360⁠.

News

● Fingerprinting nodes using `addr` messages (1:00)

● Does any software use `H` in de…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bryan Bishop, Robin Linus, and Rene Pickhardt to discuss ⁠Newsletter #359⁠.

News

● Proposal to restrict access to Bitcoin Core Project discussion (1:…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot, Peter Todd, Josh Doman, and TheCharlatan to discuss ⁠Newsletter #358⁠.

News

● Calculating the selfish mining danger threshold (0:52)…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jose SK, Clara Shikhelman, Vojtěch Strnad, Robin Linus, and Dan Gould to discuss ⁠Newsletter #357⁠.

News

● Syncing full nodes without witnesses (1:30…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Carla Kirk-Cohen, Joost Jager, and Elias Rohrer to discuss Newsletter #356.

News

● Do attributable failures reduce LN privacy? (0:57)

Selected Q&A fr…

Dave Harding is joined by Alex Myers and Rodolfo Novak to discuss Newsletter #355.

Changes to services and client software

● Cake Wallet added payjoin v2 support (2:38)

● Sparrow adds pay-to-anchor fea…

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 Bitco…

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 BIP3…

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)

Relea…

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 b…