Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #356 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Carla Kirk-Cohen, Joost Jager, and Elias Rohrer to discuss Newsletter #356.

News

● Do attributable failures reduce LN privacy? (0:57)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

● Which transactions get into blockreconstructionextratxn? (40:40)

● Why would anyone use OP_RETURN over inscriptions, aside from fees? (46:47)

● Why is my Bitcoin node not receiving incoming connections? (48:25)

● How do I configure my node to filter out transactions larger than 400 bytes? (49:44)

● What does not publicly routable node in Bitcoin Core P2P mean? (52:21)

● Why would a node would ever relay a transaction? (52:46)

● Is selfish mining still an option with compact blocks and FIBRE? (55:00)

Releases and release candidates

● Core Lightning 25.05rc1 (57:25)

● LDK 0.1.3 (57:56)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #31622 (1:00:32)

● Eclair #3065 (37:15)

● LDK #3796 (1:03:04)

● BIPs #1760 (1:03:40)

● BIPs #1850 (1:06:13)

● BIPs #1793 (1:09:05)