Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns to discuss ⁠Newsletter #331⁠.

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• Lisp dialect for Bitcoin scripting (0:48)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• How does…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj, Vojtěch Strnad, Moonsettler, Brandon Black, Ethan Heilman, and Dusty Daemon to discuss Newsletter #330.

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt discusses Newsletter #329.

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• MAD-based offchain payment resolution (OPR) protocol (0:21)
• Papers about IP-layer censorship of LN payments (3:10)

Releases and release ca…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gregory Sanders discuss Newsletter #328.

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• Disclosure of a vulnerability affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 25.1 (0:53)

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club

• Ephemeral D…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andrew Toth to discuss ⁠Newsletter #327⁠.

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• Timeout tree channel factories (0:50)
• Draft BIP for DLEQ proofs (10:53)

Releases and release c…

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj to discuss his SuperScalar proposal.

• Why a deep dive? (0:40)
• Proposal overview (1:58)
• Importance of reallocating liquidity (4:13)
• What abo…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Elle Mouton and Andrew Toth to discuss Newsletter #326.

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• Updates to the version 1.75 channel announcements proposal (1:36)
• Draft BIP for s…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Olaoluwa Osuntokun and Steven Roose to discuss ⁠Newsletter #325⁠.

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• LN Summit 2024 notes (0:51)

Changes to services and client software

• Co…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot to discuss ⁠Newsletter #324⁠.

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• Disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 25.0 (1:09)
• CVE-2024-38…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier to discuss ⁠Newsletter #323⁠.

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• Impending btcd security disclosure (0:54)

Releases and release candidates

• Bitcoin Core …

Jon Atack and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao and Jonas Nick to discuss ⁠Newsletter #322⁠.

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• Disclosure of vulnerability affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 24.0.1 (2:01)
• Hybrid jamm…

Rijndael and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andy Schroder and Virtu to discuss ⁠Newsletter #321⁠.

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• Proving UTXO set inclusion in zero knowledge (1:47)
• LN offline payments (11:32)
• DNS seeding f…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bruno Garcia, Shehzan Maredia, Gloria Zhao, Fabian Jahr, and Gregory Sanders to discuss ⁠Newsletter #320⁠.

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• Mutation testing for Bitcoin Core…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Filippo Merli, Lorenzo Bonazzi, Matt Corallo, Eric Voskuil, and rkrux to discuss ⁠Newsletter #319⁠.

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• Stratum v2 extension for fee revenue sha…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jay Beddict to discuss ⁠Newsletter #318⁠.

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• New Bitcoin Mining Development mailing list (0:48)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• Ca…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bob McElrath and moonsettler to discuss ⁠Newsletter #317⁠.

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• Simple (but imperfect) anti-exfiltration protocol (0:53)

Changes to services an…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier and Hennadii Stepanov to discuss Newsletter #316.

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• New time warp vulnerability in testnet4 (1:05)
• Onion message DoS ris…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Corallo, Greg Sanders, Sivaram Dhakshinamoorthy to discuss ⁠Newsletter #315⁠.

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• Faster seed exfiltration attack (1:24)
• Block withholdin…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sergi Delgado to discuss ⁠Newsletter #314⁠.

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• Disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 22.0 (0:56)
• Optimizing b…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #313⁠.

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• Varied discussion of free relay and fee bumping upgrades (0:31)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• Why is restructure…