Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #215 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Craig Raw to discuss Newsletter #215 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/08/31/).

News

• Wallet label export format (1:00)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• Why isn't it possible to add an OP_RETURN commitment (or some arbitrary script) inside a taproot script path with a descriptor? (23:12)

• Why does Bitcoin Core rebroadcast transactions? (24:56)

• When did Bitcoin Core deprecate the mining function? (33:27)

• UTXO spendable by me or deposit to exchange after 5 years? (35:50)

• What was the bug for the Bitcoin value overflow in 2010? (41:03)

Releases and release candidates

• LND 0.15.1-beta (45:13)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #23202 (45:38)

• Eclair #2275 (49:36)

• Eclair #2387 (52:01)

• LDK #1652 (56:21)

• HWI #627 (58:00)

• BDK #718 (1:00:47)

• BDK #705 (1:02:19)