Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Burak Keceli, Dave Harding, and Joost Jager to discuss Newsletter #253.

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• Proposal for a managed joinpool protocol (1:46)
• Tran…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Robin Linus, and Lukas George to discuss Newsletter #252.

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• State compression with zero-knowledge validity proofs (1:05)

Waiti…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Carla Kirk-Cohen, Severin Bühler, and Dan Gould to discuss Newsletter #251.

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• Testing HTLC endorsement (1:33)
• Request for feed…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Larry Ruane and Thomas Hartman to discuss Newsletter #250.

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• Paper about PoWswap protocol (1:36)

Releases and release candidates

• Core Lig…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Salvatore Ingala, James O’Beirne, Adam Gibson, and Steve Lee to discuss Newsletter #249.

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• Job opportunity for project champions (1:17)
• MAT…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Will Clark to discuss Newsletter #248.

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• Proposed removal of BIP35 `mempool` P2P message (0:41)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

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Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Maxim Orlovsky to discuss Newsletter #247.

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• RGB update (1:12)

Changes to services and client software

• Descriptor wallet library adds block explo…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Lisa Neigut and Niklas Gögge to discuss Newsletter #246.

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• Splicing specification discussions (1:24)
• Proposed BIP for transaction terminolo…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sergi Delgado Segura to discuss Newsletter #245.

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• Watchtower accountability proofs (0:36)

Releases and release candidates

• LND v0.16.0-be…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding to discuss Newsletter #244.

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• Preventing stranded capital with multiparty channels and channel factories (1:00)

Selected Q&A …

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Alekos Filini to discuss Newsletter #243.

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No significant news this week was found on the Bitcoin-Dev or Lightning-Dev mailing lists.

Changes …

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Calvin Kim, James O’Beirne, and Greg Sanders to discuss Newsletter #242.

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• Service bit for Utreexo (1:28)

Releases and release candidates

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by James O’Beirne and Greg Sanders to discuss Newsletter #241.

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• Alternative design for OP_VAULT (0:41)
• New Optech Podcast (23:29)

Bitcoin Core…

Mark "Murch" Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #240.

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• Faster seed backup checksums (2:31)

Releases and release candidates

• HWI 2.2.1 (10:17)
• Core Lightning 23.02rc3 (11:38)
• lnd …

Join Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt as they are joined by James O’Beirne, Christian Decker, and Russell O’Connor to discuss Newsletter #239.

A full transcript of the discussion is available he…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by AJ Towns, Yuval Kogman, Alex Myers and Vivek Kasarabada to discuss Newsletter #238.

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• Continued discussion about block chain data storage (1:…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Martin Zumsande and Carla Kirk-Cohen to discuss Newsletter #237.

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• Discussion about storing data in the block chain (1:19)
• Summary of call …

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dan Gould and Bastien Teinturier to discuss Newsletter #236.

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• Serverless payjoin proposal (1:30)
• LN async proof of payment (18:44)

Notab…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Valentine Wallace to discuss Newsletter #235.

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• Ephemeral anchors compared to `SIGHASH_GROUP` (0:58)
• Request for proof that an async paymen…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by James O’Beirne to discuss Newsletter #234.

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• Proposal for new vault-specific opcodes (1:48)

Changes to services and client software

• Krake…