Bitcoin Optech Podcast

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)

● PSBT…

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…

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…

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 testne…

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 adj…

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-p…

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)

● Discu…

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #343.

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 discus…

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)

● Stat…

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 Ne…

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 exp…

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 testi…

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 …

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Abubakar Sadiq Ismail, Gregory Sanders, and Daniel Roberts to discuss ⁠Newsletter #336⁠.

News

• Investigating mining pool behavior before fixing a …

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Yuval Kogman, Jeremy Rubin, and Steve Myers to discuss ⁠Newsletter #335⁠.

News

• Deanonymization attacks against centralized coinjoin (1:39)
• Updated Chil…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, Niklas Gögge, Gloria Zhao, and Rearden to discuss ⁠Newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special⁠.

January

• Fee-dependent timelocks (…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, /dev/fd0, and Gloria Zhao to discuss Newsletter #333.

News

• Vulnerability allowing theft from LN channels with miner assistance (1:…

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt and Christian Decker to discuss Pickhardt’s ⁠Lightning Network channel depletion research⁠.

• Summary of Pickhardt's research (1:01)
• Why lo…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Riard and Antoine Poinsot to discuss ⁠Newsletter #332⁠.

News

• Transaction censorship vulnerability (0:55)
• Continued discussion about con…