Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #416 Recap Podcast
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Rob Hamilton, PortlandHODL, Chandra Pratap, and fabohax to discuss Newsletter #416.
The Bitcoin Optech Podcast and transcription content is licensed Creative Commons CC BY-SA 2.0
Action items
News
- ● Wallets generated by COLDCARD at risk of theft (2:18)
- ● Disclosure of two DoS vulnerabilities in Core Lightning (36:26)
- ● Proof of concept for a zero-knowledge proof of reserves (49:54)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- ● What is Bitcoin's objective definition of transaction neutrality? (1:03:07)
- ● Why does BIP110's decentralization benefit not outweigh its impact on transaction neutrality? (1:05:17)
- ● Why does BIP110 require a 55% signaling threshold if its nodes reject non-signaling blocks? (1:09:46)
- ● Why use ElligatorSwift encoding in BIP324? (1:17:12)
- ● Was the OP_SUCCESSx reservation in BIP342 designed with specific opcode families in mind? (1:25:36)
- ● What is the difference between the long-term feerate and the discard feerate? (1:29:14)
- ● What is the quickest method for migrating a legacy wallet to a descriptor wallet on a pruned node? (1:32:40)
- ● Is there historical data on orphan/stale block rates during high-fee periods? (1:36:09)
Releases and release candidates
Notable code and documentation changes
- ● Bitcoin Core #34628 (1:44:26)
- ● Bitcoin Core #28463 (1:49:49)
- ● Bitcoin Core #32800 (1:54:18)
- ● Bitcoin Core #34683 (1:56:54)
- ● Bitcoin Core #33014 (1:58:09)
- ● Eclair #3325 (1:59:31)
- ● BOLTs #1346 (2:00:57)
- ● BOLTs #1344 (2:02:10)
- ● BOLTs #1343 (2:04:14)
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