Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jesse Posner and ZmnSCPxj to discuss Newsletter #233.

News

• Non-interactive LN channel open commitments (3:20)

Releases and release candidates

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Peter Todd to discuss Newsletter #232.

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding to discuss ⁠Newsletter #231⁠.

January

• Stateless invoices (7:37)
• Legal defense fund (11:21)

February

• Fee sponsorship (12:45)…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ben Carman and Joost Jager to discuss Newsletter #230.

News

• Factory-optimized LN protocol proposal (2:34)
• Local jamming to prevent remote jamm…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Greg Sanders and Larry Ruane to discuss Newsletter #229.

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #228.

News

• Reputation credentials proposal to mitigate LN jamming attacks (00:33)

Releases and release candidates

• LND 0.15.5-beta.rc2 (…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #227.

Mike Schmidt is joined by Salvatore Ingala and Clara Shikhelman to discuss Newsletter #226.

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #225.

News

• Continued discussion about enabling full-RBF (0:54)
• Block parsing bug affecting multiple software (14:36)

Bitcoin Core PR Re…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier and Joost Jager to discuss Newsletter #224.

News

• Mempool consistency (3:15)
• BIP324 message identifiers (17:55)
• LN routin…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Gregory Sanders, and Sergej Kotliar to discuss Newsletter #223.

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by John Light and Gregory Sanders to discuss Newsletter #222.

News

• Block parsing bug affecting BTCD and LND (0:10)
• Transaction replacement option…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ruben Somsen and Martin Zumsande to discuss Newsletter #221.

News

• LN with long timeouts proposal (18:45)
• Recommendations for unique address se…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao and Rene Pickhardt to discuss Newsletter #220.

News

• Proposed new transaction relay policies designed for LN-penalty (1:30)
• LN flow…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns and Andreas Kouloumos to discuss Newsletter #219.

News

• LN fee ratecards (0:51)
• Bitcoin implementation designed for testing soft …

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jeremy Rubin and Paul Sztorc to discuss Newsletter #218.

News

• Creating drivechains with APO and a trusted setup (1:07)

Changes to services and…

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Larry Ruane to discuss Newsletter #217.

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club

• Reduce bandwidth during initial headers sync when a block is found (4:58)

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Daniela Brozzoni to discuss Newsletter #216.

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #25717 (2:34)
• Bitcoin Core #25355 (22:41)
• …

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Craig Raw to discuss Newsletter #215.

News

• Wallet label export format (1:00)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• Why isn't it possible …

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Riard and Rodolfo Novak to discuss Newsletter #214.

News

• Overview of channel jamming attacks and mitigations (28:08)
• Updated silent pa…