Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Josie Baker, Salvatore Ingala, and Fabian Jahr to discuss ⁠Newsletter #292⁠.

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• Updating BIP21 `bitcoin:` URIs (18:07)
• PSBTs for multiple con…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Richard Myers, Rijndael, Luke Dashjr, and Jason Hughes to discuss Newsletter #291.

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• Trustless contract for miner feerate futures (1:31)
• Co…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, callebtc, Chris Stewart, Fabian Jahr, and Pierre Corbin to discuss ⁠Newsletter #290⁠.

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• DNS-based human-readable Bitcoin payment …

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gregory Sanders and Gloria Zhao to discuss Newsletter #289.

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• Ideas for relay enhancements after cluster mempool is deployed (1:11)
• What would have…

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier and Eugene Siegel to discuss Newsletter #288.

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• Public disclosure of a block stalling bug in Bitcoin Core affecting LN (1:26)
• Se…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao and Brandon Black to discuss ⁠Newsletter #287⁠.

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• Kindred replace by fee (1:10)
• Opposition to CTV based on commonly requiring ex…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Niklas Gögge, Bastien Teinturier, Anthony Towns, Gloria Zhao, Nicholas Gregory, and Tom Trevethan to discuss ⁠Newsletter #286⁠.

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• Disclosure o…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Brandon Black, Chris Stewart, Gregory Sanders, and Oliver Gugger to discuss ⁠Newsletter #285⁠.

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• Disclosure of past vulnerability in Core Ligh…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Gregory Sanders, Dave Harding, and Stéphan Vuylsteke to discuss Newsletter #284.

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• Discussion about LN anchors and v3 transaction…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Niklas Gögge, Antoine Riard, Abubakar Sadiq Ismail, Gloria Zhao, Salvatore Ingala, Johan Torås Halseth and SeedHammer Team to discuss Newsletter #2…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Dave Harding, and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #282: 2023 Year-in-Review Special⁠.

January

• Bitcoin Inquisition (10:59)
• Swap-in-potentiam (14:03)
• BIP329 wallet label …

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Bastien Teinturier and Rodolfo Novak to discuss Newsletter #281.

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• Discussion about griefing liquidity ads (0:46)

Changes to services and c…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Pieter Wuille and Matthew Zipkin to discuss Newsletter #280.

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• Cluster mempool discussion (0:57)
• Testing with warnet (32:42)

Bitcoin Core…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Lisa Neigut and Bastien Teinturier to discuss Newsletter #279.

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• Update to the liquidity ads specification (1:00)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin…

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier and Robin Linus to discuss Newsletter #278.

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• Offers-compatible LN addresses (1:20)

Changes to services and client software

• Bi…

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gregory Sanders, Antoine Poinsot, and Max Edwards to discuss Newsletter #277.

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• Eliminating malleability from ephemeral anchor spends (1:54)

Field …

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Johan Torås Halseth and Abubakar Ismail to discuss Newsletter #276.

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• Mailing list hosting (1:05)
• HTLC aggregation with covenants (5:36)

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #275⁠.

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• Continued discussion about scripting changes (0:40)

Releases and release candidates

• LDK 0.0.118 (14:57)
• Rust Bitcoin 0.3…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier, Fabian Jahr, Ethan Heilman, and Armin Sabouri to discuss Newsletter #274.

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• Replacement cycling vulnerability against HTL…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Robin Linus and Antoine Poinsot to discuss ⁠Newsletter #273⁠.

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• Security disclosure of issue affecting LN (1:09)
• Payments contingent on arbi…