Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #219 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns and Andreas Kouloumos to discuss Newsletter #219 (https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2022/09/28/).

News

• LN fee ratecards (0:51)

• Bitcoin implementation designed for testing soft forks on signet (11:35)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• Is it possible to determine whether an HD wallet was used to create a given transaction? (34:10)

• Why is there a 5-day gap between the genesis block and block 1? (38:08)

• Is it possible to set RBF as always-on in bitcoind? (42:09)

• Why would I need to ban peer nodes on the Bitcoin network? (45:53)

Releases and release candidates

• Core Lightning 0.12.1 (49:06)

• Bitcoin Core 24.0 RC1 (49:17)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #26116 (59:05)

• Core Lightning #5594 (1:00:04)

• Core Lightning #5315 (1:01:02)

• Rust Bitcoin #1258 (1:04:09)