Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #270 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns to discuss Newsletter #270.

News

• Using covenants to improve LN scalability (2:07)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• How did peer discovery work in Bitcoin v0.1? (20:42)


• Would a series of reorgs cause Bitcoin to break because of the 2-hour block time difference restriction? (22:48)


• Is there a way to download blocks from scratch without downloading block headers first? (26:56)


• Where is the bitcoin source code is the 21 million hard cap stated? (28:56)


• Are blocks containing non-standard transactions relayed through the network or not as in the case of non-standard transactions? (31:50)


• When does Bitcoin Core allow you to Abandon transaction? (35:47)

Releases and release candidates

• LND v0.17.0-beta.rc5 (39:07)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #28492 (39:54)


• Bitcoin Core GUI #119 (41:13)


• Bitcoin Core GUI #738 (42:49)


• Bitcoin Core #28246 (44:18)


• Core Lightning #6311 (46:30)


• Core Lightning #6617 (47:23)


• Core Lightning #6686 (47:55)


• Eclair #2613 (48:44)


• LND #7994 (50:18)


• LDK #2547 (51:10)


• LDK #2534 (53:01)