Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick and Pieter Wuille to discuss ⁠Newsletter #312⁠.

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• Distributed key generation protocol for FROST (1:37)
• Introduction to cluster li…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Vojtěch Strnad and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #311.

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Bitcoin Core PR Review Club

• Testnet4 including PoW difficulty adjustment…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot and Elle Mouton to discuss ⁠Newsletter #310⁠.

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• Disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 0.21.0 (0…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt to discuss ⁠Newsletter #309⁠.

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• Estimating the likelihood that an LN payment is feasible (1:04)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Sta…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jameson Lopp and Valentine Wallace to discuss ⁠Newsletter #308⁠.

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• Disclosure of vulnerability affecting old versions of LND (0:54)
• Continue…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Hunter Beast and TheCharlatan to discuss Newsletter #307.

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Fabian Jahr, Anthony Towns, and Matt Corallo to discuss Newsletter #306.

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• Upcoming disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting old versions of B…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Setor Blagogee, Oghenovo Usiwoma, Pierre Rochard, and Alex Bosworth to discuss Newsletter #305.

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• Light client protocol for silent payments (1…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andrew Toth, Antoine Poinsot, and Tony Klausing to discuss ⁠Newsletter #304⁠.

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• Upgrading existing LN channels (1:27)
• Challenges in rewardin…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Adam Gibson to discuss ⁠Newsletter #303⁠.

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• Anonymous usage tokens (1:58)
• BIP39 seed phrase splitting (31:48)
• Alternative to BitVM (38:05…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Calvin Kim to discuss ⁠Newsletter #302⁠.

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• Release of utreexod beta (0:56)
• BIP119 extensions for smaller hashes and arbitrary data commitmen…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ethan Heilman and Gloria Zhao to discuss ⁠Newsletter #301⁠.

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• Consensus-enforced lamport signatures on top of ECDSA signatures (1:00)

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Tadge Dryja to discuss ⁠Newsletter #300⁠.

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• CTV-like exploding keys proposal (0:59)
• Analyzing a contract protocol with Alloy (13:07)
• Arre…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gregory Sanders to discuss ⁠Newsletter #299⁠.

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• Weak blocks proof-of-concept implementation (0:56)
• BIP editors update (20:08)

Selected Q&…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #298⁠.

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• What would have happened if cluster mempool had been deployed a year ago? (0:42)

Changes to services and client software

• Ph…

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Kulpreet Singh, Chris Stewart, Jameson Lopp, and Joost Jager to discuss ⁠Newsletter #297⁠.

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• DSL for experimenting with contracts (1:24)
• Updating B…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot to discuss ⁠Newsletter #296⁠.

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• Revisiting consensus cleanup (0:46)
• Choosing new BIP editors (27:21)

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, Peter Todd, Abubakar Sadiq Ismail, David Gumberg, and Jeffrey Czyz to discuss Newsletter #295.

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• Disclosure of free relay attac…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner, Anthony Towns, and Russell O’Connor to discuss ⁠Newsletter #294⁠.

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• BIP324 proxy for light clients (1:20)
• Overview of…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj, Anthony Towns, and Armin Sabouri to discuss Newsletter #293.

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• Trustless onchain betting on potential soft forks (1:11)
• Overview …