Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #321 Recap

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Rijndael and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andy Schroder and Virtu to discuss ⁠Newsletter #321⁠.

Proving UTXO set inclusion in zero knowledge (1:47)
LN offline payments (11:32)
DNS seeding for non-IP addresses (30:00)

Changes to services and client software

Strike adds BOLT12 support (42:15)
BitBox02 adds silent payment support (43:29)
The Mempool Open Source Project v3.0.0 released (45:22)
ZEUS v0.9.0 released (46:39)
Live Wallet adds consolidation support (47:04)
Bisq adds Lightning support (48:30)

Releases and release candidates

HWI 3.1.0 (49:32)
Core Lightning 24.08.1 (49:56)
BDK 1.0.0-beta.4 (50:27)
Bitcoin Core 28.0rc2 (51:04)

Notable code and documentation changes

Bitcoin Core #28358 (52:23)
Bitcoin Core #30286 (53:53)
Bitcoin Core #30807 (55:24)
LND #8981 (56:36)
LDK #3140 (57:34)
LDK #3163 (58:50)
LDK #3010 (59:40)
BDK #1581 (1:00:18)
BDK #1561 (1:01:21)

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#News #Tech News #Bitcoin Optech

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #321 Recap

Bitcoin Optech Podcast

published circa un anno fa

MP3•Pagina principale dell'episodio

Rijndael and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andy Schroder and Virtu to discuss ⁠Newsletter #321⁠.

News

Proving UTXO set inclusion in zero knowledge (1:47)
LN offline payments (11:32)
DNS seeding for non-IP addresses (30:00)

Changes to services and client software

Strike adds BOLT12 support (42:15)
BitBox02 adds silent payment support (43:29)
The Mempool Open Source Project v3.0.0 released (45:22)
ZEUS v0.9.0 released (46:39)
Live Wallet adds consolidation support (47:04)
Bisq adds Lightning support (48:30)

Releases and release candidates

HWI 3.1.0 (49:32)
Core Lightning 24.08.1 (49:56)
BDK 1.0.0-beta.4 (50:27)
Bitcoin Core 28.0rc2 (51:04)

Notable code and documentation changes

Bitcoin Core #28358 (52:23)
Bitcoin Core #30286 (53:53)
Bitcoin Core #30807 (55:24)
LND #8981 (56:36)
LDK #3140 (57:34)
LDK #3163 (58:50)
LDK #3010 (59:40)
BDK #1581 (1:00:18)
BDK #1561 (1:01:21)

144 episodi

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner, Ruben Somsen, and Abubakar Sadiq Ismail to discuss ⁠Newsletter #349⁠ . News ● SwiftSync speedup for initial block download (0:34) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club ● Add Fee rate Forecaster Manager (29:33) Releases and release candidates ● Core Lightning 25.02.1 (46:54) ● Core Lightning 24.11.2 (47:03) ● BTCPay Server 2.1.0 (48:14) ● Bitcoin Core 29.0rc3 (49:25) ● LND 0.19.0-beta.rc2 (51:21) Notable code and documentation changes ● LDK #2256 (53:52) ● LND #9669 (56:16) ● Rust Bitcoin #4302 (57:24)…

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick, Jameson Lopp, Steven Roose, Gregory Sanders, and Salvatore Ingala to discuss ⁠Newsletter #348⁠ . News ● Educational and experimental-based secp256k1 implementation (1:09) Changing consensus ● Should vulnerable bitcoins be destroyed? (9:17) ● Securely proving UTXO ownership by revealing a SHA256 preimage (34:52) ● Draft BIP for destroying quantum-insecure bitcoins (44:01) ● Criticism of CTV motivation (51:16) ● CTV+CSFS benefits (1:06:02) ● Benefit of CTV to Ark users (1:24:37) ● OP_CHECKCONTRACTVERIFY semantics (1:31:49) ● Draft BIP published for consensus cleanup (1:58:29) Releases and release candidates ● BDK wallet 1.2.0 (2:06:03) ● LDK v0.1.2 (2:06:48) ● Bitcoin Core 29.0rc3 (2:07:13) ● LND 0.19.0-beta.rc1 (2:08:36) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #31363 (2:09:03) ● Bitcoin Core #31278 (2:09:44) ● Eclair #3050 (2:12:41) ● Eclair #2963 (2:13:54) ● Eclair #3045 (2:14:44) ● LDK #3670 (2:15:47) ● LND #9620 (2:16:24)…

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #345 Recap 54:13

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #344 Recap 1:21:44

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse, Matt Corallo, and Hunter Beast to discuss Newsletter #344 . News ● Disclosure of fixed LND vulnerability allowing theft (0:57) ● Discussion about Bitcoin Core's priorities (10:49) Changing consensus ● Bitcoin Forking Guide (1:01:11) ● Update on BIP360 pay-to-quantum-resistant-hash (P2QRH) (34:37) ● Private block template marketplace to prevent centralizing MEV (21:06) Releases and release candidates ● Core Lightning 25.02 (1:09:57) Notable code and documentation changes ● Eclair #3019 (1:11:21) ● Eclair #3016 (1:12:05) ● LDK #3342 (33:13) ● Rust Bitcoin #4114 (1:12:50) ● Rust Bitcoin #4111 (1:14:29) ● BIPs #1758 (1:15:09) ● BIPs #1750 (1:17:07) ● BIPs #1712 (1:18:10)…

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #343 Recap 54:20

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #341 Recap 59:32

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #340 Recap 2:43:04

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #339 Recap 1:15:58

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Matt Morehouse and 0xB10C to discuss Newsletter #339 . News ● Vulnerability in LDK claim processing (0:47) ● Replacement cycling attacks with miner exploitation (17:28) ● Updated stats on compact block reconstruction (23:56) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange ● Who uses or wants to use PSBTv2 (BIP370)? (32:38) ● In the bitcoin's block genesis, which parts can be filled arbitrarily? (34:41) ● Lightning force close detection (36:47) ● Is a segwit-formatted transaction with all inputs of non-witness program type valid? (40:01) ● P2TR Security Question (41:41) ● What exactly is being done today to make Bitcoin quantum-safe? (44:27) ● What are the harmful effects of a shorter inter-block time? (47:57) ● Could proof-of-work be used to replace policy rules? (51:19) ● How does MuSig work in real Bitcoin scenarios? (54:54) ● How does the -blocksxor switch that obfuscates the blocks.dat files work? (57:18) ● How does the related key attack on Schnorr signatures work? (59:42) Releases and release candidates ● LDK v0.1.1 (1:01:19) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #31376 (1:03:24) ● Bitcoin Core #31583 (1:04:48) ● Bitcoin Core #31590 (1:05:40) ● Eclair #2982 (1:07:17) ● BDK #1614 (1:11:39) ● BOLTs #1110 (1:12:08)…

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #338 Recap 49:31

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andrew Toth and Dave Harding to discuss ⁠Newsletter #338⁠ . News - Draft BIP for unspendable keys in descriptors (0:49) - PSBTv2 integration testing (9:55) - Correction about offchain DLCs (15:25) Changes to services and client software - Bull Bitcoin Mobile Wallet adds payjoin (28:10) - Bitcoin Keeper adds miniscript support (28:52) - Nunchuk adds taproot MuSig2 features (29:26) - Jade Plus signing device announced (32:08) - Coinswap v0.1.0 released (32:36) - Bitcoin Safe 1.0.0 released (35:14) - Bitcoin Core 28.0 policy demonstration (35:41) - Rust-payjoin 0.21.0 released (36:21) - PeerSwap v4.0rc1 (37:34) - Joinpool prototype using CTV (38:24) - Rust joinstr library announced (39:58) - Strata bridge announced (40:36) Releases and release candidates - BTCPay Server 2.0.6 (41:41) Notable code and documentation changes - Bitcoin Core #31397 (42:19) - Eclair #2896 (44:21) - LDK #3408 (46:02) - LND #9405 (47:57)…

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #337 Recap 52:42

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by vnprc to discuss ⁠⁠Newsletter #337⁠⁠ . News - Continued discussion about rewarding pool miners with tradeable ecash shares (0:35) - Offchain DLCs (38:32) Releases and release candidates - LDK v0.1 (39:34) Notable code and documentation changes - Eclair #2936 (41:32) - Rust Bitcoin #3792 (42:46) - BDK #1789 (43:42) - BIPs #1687 (46:39) - BIPs #1396 (50:15)…

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #336 Recap 47:06

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Abubakar Sadiq Ismail, Gregory Sanders, and Daniel Roberts to discuss ⁠Newsletter #336⁠ . News Investigating mining pool behavior before fixing a Bitcoin Core bug (1:07) Contract-level relative timelocks (15:04) Multiparty LN-Symmetry variant with penalties for limiting published updates (29:06) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Core 28.1 (39:54) BDK 0.30.1 (40:45) LDK v0.1.0-beta1 (42:01) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #28121 (42:22) BDK #1592 (43:14)…

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #335 Recap 1:37:27

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Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Yuval Kogman, Jeremy Rubin, and Steve Myers to discuss ⁠Newsletter #335⁠ . News Deanonymization attacks against centralized coinjoin (1:39) Updated ChillDKG draft (14:09) Changing consensus CTV enhancement opcodes (18:41) Adjusting difficulty beyond 256 bits (31:52) Transitory soft forks for cleanup soft forks (33:44) Quantum computer upgrade path (48:09) Consensus cleanup timewarp grace period (56:10) Releases and release candidates BDK wallet-1.0.0 (1:06:44) LND 0.18.4-beta (1:17:28) Core Lightning v24.11.1 (1:18:13) Bitcoin Core 28.1rc2 (1:18:47) LDK v0.1.0-beta1 (1:19:37) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #31223 (1:20:19) Eclair #2888 (1:21:09) LDK #3495 (1:22:35) LDK #3436 (1:24:31) LDK #3435 (1:25:02) LDK #3365 (1:26:04) LDK #3340 (1:26:41) BDK #1670 (1:28:47) BIPs #1689 (1:31:45) BIPs #1697 (1:33:49) BLIPs #52 (1:34:21) BLIPs #54 (1:35:40)…

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, Niklas Gögge, Gloria Zhao, and Rearden to discuss ⁠Newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special⁠ . January Fee-dependent timelocks (16:18) Optimized contract protocol exits (17:20) LN-Symmetry proof-of-concept implementation (18:22) February Replace by feerate (22:32) Human-readable payment instructions (27:25) Improved ASMap generation (28:09) LN dual funding (32:33) Trustless betting on future feerates (32:56) Summary 2024: Vulnerability disclosures (7:05) March BINANAs and BIPs (33:33) Enhanced feerate estimation (34:41) More efficient transaction sponsorship (46:08) April Consensus cleanup (50:06) Reforming the BIPs process (51:08) Inbound routing fees (53:10) Weak blocks (54:01) Restarting testnet (57:43) Developers arrested (1:00:06) Summary 2024: Cluster mempool (1:01:10) May Silent payments (1:06:51) BitVMX (1:07:37) Anonymous usage tokens (1:09:50) LN channel upgrades (1:12:00) Ecash for pool miners (1:13:33) Miniscript specification (1:14:54) Utreexo beta (1:16:16) June LN payment feasibility and channel depletion (1:18:17) Quantum-resistant transaction signing (1:20:02) Summary 2024: P2P transaction relay (1:20:39) July Blinded paths for BOLT11 invoices (1:31:07) ChillDKG key generation for threshold signatures (1:31:47) BIPs for MuSig and threshold signatures (1:32:18) August Hyperion network simulator (1:33:00) Full RBF (1:33:56) Summary 2024: Covenants and script upgrades (2:08) September Hybrid jamming mitigation tests and tweaks (1:35:10) Shielded CSV (1:38:40) LN offline payments (1:41:22) October BOLT12 offers (1:42:34) Mining interfaces, block withholding, and share validation cost (1:43:13) Summary 2024: Major releases of popular infrastructure projects (1:50:41) November SuperScalar timeout tree channel factories (1:51:19) Fast and cheap low-value offchain payment resolution (1:53:29) Summary 2024: Bitcoin Optech (1:55:17)…

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #333 Recap 1:34:25

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, /dev/fd0, and Gloria Zhao to discuss Newsletter #333 . News Vulnerability allowing theft from LN channels with miner assistance (1:11) Deanonymization vulnerability affecting Wasabi and related software (12:00) Insights into channel depletion (18:12) Poll of opinions about covenant proposals (31:14) Incentive-based pseudo-covenants (41:49) Bitcoin Core developer meeting summaries (46:45) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Track and use all potential peers for orphan resolution (48:18) Changes to services and client software Java-based HWI released (1:00:32) Saving Satoshi Bitcoin development education game announced (1:01:24) Neovim Bitcoin Script plugin (1:02:19) Proton Wallet adds RBF (1:03:36) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange How long does Bitcoin Core store forked chains? (1:03:51) What is the point of solo mining pools? (1:05:02) Is there a point to using P2TR over P2WSH if I only want to use the script path? (1:11:17) Releases and release candidates Core Lightning 24.11 (1:13:23) BTCPay Server 2.0.4 (1:16:59) LND 0.18.4-beta.rc2 (1:17:23) Bitcoin Core 28.1RC1 (1:17:44) BDK 1.0.0-beta.6 (1:18:36) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #31096 (1:18:58) Bitcoin Core #31175 (1:19:51) Bitcoin Core #31112 (1:21:37) LDK #3446 (1:22:56) Rust Bitcoin #3682 (1:26:13) BTCPay Server #5743 (1:27:17) BDK #1756 (1:30:23) BIPs #1535 (1:31:12) BOLTs #1180 (1:32:33)…

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Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt and Christian Decker to discuss Pickhardt’s ⁠Lightning Network channel depletion research⁠ . Summary of Pickhardt's research (1:01) Why look at wealth distributions? (5:45) What can be learned from depletion? (11:38) Circular rebalancing (13:33) What determines where the spanning tree is? (15:28) Mitigating depletion (20:14) Adjacent channels and their impact (26:39) Multiparty channels, channel factories, and Ark (29:52) Hub-and-spoke topology discussion (41:06) What real world data would inform the theoretical? (54:54)…

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #332 Recap 58:25

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Riard and Antoine Poinsot to discuss ⁠Newsletter #332⁠ . News Transaction censorship vulnerability (0:55) Continued discussion about consensus cleanup soft fork proposal (19:20) Releases and release candidates Eclair v0.11.0 (46:45) LDK v0.0.125 (47:26) Core Lightning 24.11rc3 (47:59) LND 0.18.4-beta.rc1 (48:21) Bitcoin Core 28.1RC1 (48:34) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #30708 (49:15) Core Lightning #7832 (50:32) LND #8270 (51:36) LND #8390 (52:49) BIPs #1534 (55:49)…

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #331 Recap 1:28:39

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns to discuss ⁠Newsletter #331⁠ . News Lisp dialect for Bitcoin scripting (0:48) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange How does ColliderScript improve Bitcoin and what features does it enable? (43:24) Why do standardness rules limit transaction weight? (48:10) Is the scriptSig spending an PayToAnchor output expected to always be empty? (56:16) What happens to the unused P2A outputs? (57:13) Why doesn't Bitcoin's PoW algorithm use a chain of lower-difficulty hashes? (1:01:47) Clarification on false value in Script (1:04:38) What is this strange microtransaction in my wallet? (1:06:02) Are there any UTXOs that can not be spent? (1:09:04) Why was BIP34 not implemented via the coinbase tx's locktime or nSequence? (1:13:15) Releases and release candidates Core Lightning 24.11rc2 (1:15:19) BDK 0.30.0 (1:15:49) LND 0.18.4-beta.rc1 (1:16:16) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #31122 (1:17:17) Core Lightning #7852 (1:20:25) Core Lightning #7740 (1:21:27) Core Lightning #7719 (1:22:48) Eclair #2935 (1:23:47) LDK #3137 (1:24:34) LND #8337 (1:26:22)…

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #330 Recap 1:32:21

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj, Vojtěch Strnad, Moonsettler, Brandon Black, Ethan Heilman, and Dusty Daemon to discuss Newsletter #330 .

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #329 Recap 13:42

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt discusses Newsletter #329 . News MAD-based offchain payment resolution (OPR) protocol (0:21) Papers about IP-layer censorship of LN payments (3:10) Releases and release candidates BTCPay Server 2.0.3 (6:21) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #30592 (8:29) Bitcoin Core #30930 (9:46) LDK #3283 (11:35) LND #7762 (12:31)…

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #328 Recap 20:45

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gregory Sanders discuss Newsletter #328 . News Disclosure of a vulnerability affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 25.1 (0:53) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Ephemeral Dust (6:54) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Core 27.2 (14:55) Libsecp256k1 0.6.0 (15:40) Notable code and documentation changes LDK #3360 (17:40) LDK #3207 (18:45)…

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #327 Recap 28:43

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andrew Toth to discuss ⁠Newsletter #327⁠ . News Timeout tree channel factories (0:50) Draft BIP for DLEQ proofs (10:53) Releases and release candidates BTCPay Server 2.0.0 (20:02) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #31130 (22:56) LDK #3007 (25:14) BIPs #1676 (27:15)…

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Bitcoin Optech: SuperScalar Deep Dive Podcast 53:03

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Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj to discuss his SuperScalar proposal . Why a deep dive? (0:40) Proposal overview (1:58) Importance of reallocating liquidity (4:13) What about overloading channels with liquidity from the start? (9:42) Discussion of multi-LSP vs single LSP approaches (13:05) Ensuring unilateral exit is possible (15:22) Malicious users forcing unilateral closes (20:21) Decker–Wattenhofer channels vs John Law's tunable penalties (27:11) Decker–Wattenhofer relative lock times impact on users (38:44) Discussion of trustless non-P2P protocol structure (40:01) Contrasting SuperScalar with Ark (44:08) Implementation discussion (48:44)…

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #326 Recap 57:13

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Elle Mouton and Andrew Toth to discuss Newsletter #326 . News Updates to the version 1.75 channel announcements proposal (1:36) Draft BIP for sending silent payments with PSBTs (16:28) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange Duplicate blocks in blk*.dat files? (30:07) How was the structure of pay-to-anchor decided? (32:45) What are the benefits of decoy packets in BIP324? (36:38) Why is the opcode limit 201? (39:20) Will my node relay a transaction if it is below my minimum tx relay fee? (40:31) Why doesn't the Bitcoin Core wallet support BIP69? (42:09) How can I enable testnet4 when using Bitcoin Core 28.0? (44:50) What are the risks of broadcasting a transaction that reveals a `scriptPubKey` using a low-entropy key? (47:33) Releases and release candidates Core Lightning 24.08.2 (52:12) Notable code and documentation changes Eclair #2925 (52:56) LND #9172 (53:37) Rust Bitcoin #2960 (55:47)…

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #325 Recap 1:22:24

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Olaoluwa Osuntokun and Steven Roose to discuss ⁠Newsletter #325⁠ . News LN Summit 2024 notes (0:51) Changes to services and client software Coinbase adds taproot send support (49:03) Dana wallet released (51:53) Kyoto BIP157/158 light client released (53:20) DLC Markets launches on mainnet (1:01:39) Ashigaru wallet announced (1:02:30) DATUM protocol announced (1:03:10) Bark Ark implementation announced (1:03:55) Phoenix v2.4.0 and phoenixd v0.4.0 released (1:11:31) Releases and release candidates BDK 1.0.0-beta.5 (1:12:33) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #30955 (1:13:11) Eclair #2927 (1:14:37) Eclair #2922 (1:15:38) LDK #3235 (1:16:30) LND #8183 (1:17:21) Rust Bitcoin #3450 (1:18:09)…

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #324 Recap 45:13

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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot to discuss ⁠Newsletter #324⁠ . News Disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 25.0 (1:09) CVE-2024-38365 btcd consensus failure (11:22) Guide for wallets employing Bitcoin Core 28.0 (23:27) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Add getorphantxs (27:43) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Inquisition 28.0 (26:35) BDK 1.0.0-beta.5 (31:39) Notable code and documentation changes Core Lightning #7494 (32:22) Core Lightning #7539 (34:46) LDK #3179 (35:46) LND #8960 (36:56) Libsecp256k1 #1479 (37:38) Rust Bitcoin #2945 (39:29) BIPs #1674 (39:49)…

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Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #323 Recap 55:57

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