Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Bitcoin Optech
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Join Bitcoin Optech as we discuss Bitcoin and Lightning technology each week and review our newsletters. https://bitcoinops.org/

  1. 2D AGO

    Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #394 Recap

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Craig Raw and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #393. News ● Draft BIP for output script descriptor annotations (1:25) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange ● Is Bitcoin BIP324 v2 P2P transport distinguishable from random traffic? (35:16) ● What if a miner just broadcasts the header and never gives the block? (39:53) Releases and release candidates ● Bitcoin Core 28.4rc1 (47:27) ● Rust Bitcoin 0.33.0-beta (47:46) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #34568 (48:48) ● Bitcoin Core #34184 (50:37) ● Bitcoin Core #24539 (51:57) ● Bitcoin Core #34329 (54:56) ● Bitcoin Core #28792 (15:35) ● Bitcoin Core #32138 (54:56) ● Bitcoin Core #34512 (56:44) ● Core Lightning #8490 (58:16) ● Eclair #3250 (59:07) ● LDK #4373 (59:55) ● BDK #2081 (1:02:13)

    1h 4m

  2. FEB 24

    Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #393 Recap

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Misha Komarov, Erik De Smedt, and arbedout to discuss ⁠Newsletter #393⁠. News ● Recent OP_RETURN output statistics (45:54) ● Bitcoin PIPEs v2 (1:33) Changes to services and client software ● Second releases hArk-based Ark software (20:21) ● Amboss announces RailsX (55:35) ● Nunchuk adds silent payment support (56:11) ● Electrum adds submarine swap features (58:08) ● Sigbash v2 announced (33:56) Releases and release candidates ● BTCPay Server 2.3.5 (1:00:11) ● LND 0.20.1-beta (1:01:43) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #33965 (1:02:55) ● Eclair #3248 (1:05:55) ● Eclair #3246 (1:07:08) ● LDK #4335 (1:08:52) ● LDK #4318 (1:14:32) ● LND #10542 (1:15:55) ● BIPs #1670 (1:17:02) ● BOLTs #1236 (1:27:50) ● BOLTs #1289 (1:29:10)

    1h 31m

  3. FEB 24

    Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #392 Recap

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner and Oleksandr Kurbatov to discuss ⁠Newsletter #392⁠. News ● Proposal to limit the number of per-group silent payment recipients (1:13) ● BLISK, Boolean circuit Logic Integrated into the Single Key (26:43) Releases and release candidates ● Bitcoin Core 29.3 (49:18) ● LDK 0.2.2 (51:16) ● HWI 3.2.0 (52:20) ● Bitcoin Inquisition 29.2 (53:54) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #32420 (56:05) ● Core Lightning #8772 (1:02:29) ● LND #10507 (1:03:56) ● LDK #4387 (1:05:48) ● LDK #4355 (1:08:14) ● LDK #4354 (1:09:21) ● LDK #4303 (1:10:52) ● HWI #784 (1:13:10) ● BIPs #2092 (1:15:02) ● BIPs #2004 (1:16:33) ● BIPs #2017 (1:19:44) ● Bitcoin Inquisition #99 (1:26:53)

    1h 32m

  4. FEB 11

    Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #391 Recap

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Toby Sharp, Chris Hyunhum Cho, Jonas Nick, and Antoine Poinsot to discuss ⁠Newsletter #391⁠. News ● A constant-time parallelized UTXO database (25:40) ● Bithoven: A formally verified, imperative language for Bitcoin Script (44:48) ● Discussion of dust attack mitigations (1:43:33) Changing consensus ● SHRINCS: 324-byte stateful post-quantum signatures with static backups (1:30) ● Addressing remaining points on BIP54 (1:10:08) ● Falcon post-quantum signature scheme proposal (20:05) ● SLH-DSA verification can compete with ECC (23:28) Releases and release candidates ● LDK 0.1.9 (1:50:27) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #33604 (1:53:10) ● Bitcoin Core #34358 (1:54:58) ● Core Lightning #8824 (1:56:20) ● Eclair #3244 (1:58:17) ● LDK #4263 (2:00:07) ● LDK #4300 (2:01:54) ● LND #10473 (2:03:57) ● Rust Bitcoin #5493 (2:07:36)

    2h 10m

  5. FEB 4

    Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #390 Recap

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Liam Eagen to discuss Newsletter #390. News ● Argo: a garbled-circuits scheme with more efficient off-chain computation (0:48) ● LN-Symmetry update (26:05) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange ● What is stored in dbcache and with what priority? (34:21) ● Can one do a coinjoin in Shielded CSV? (24:02) ● In Bitcoin Core, how to use Tor for broadcasting new transactions only? (36:47) ● Brassard-Høyer-Tapp (BHT) algorithm and Bitcoin (BIP360) (38:31) ● Why does BitHash alternate sha256 and ripmed160? (39:24) Releases and release candidates ● Libsecp256k1 0.7.1 (41:09) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #33822 (42:59) ● Bitcoin Core #34269 (44:50) ● Core Lightning #8850 (47:38) ● LDK #4349 (49:16) ● Rust Bitcoin #5470 (50:54) ● Rust Bitcoin #5443 (51:26) ● BDK #2037 (52:51) ● BIPs #2076 (55:49) ● BIPs #1500 (59:39)

    1h 3m

  6. JAN 27

    Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #389 Recap

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt to discuss ⁠Newsletter #389⁠. News ● A mathematical theory of payment channel networks (0:31) Changes to services and client software ● Electrum server for testing silent payments (30:04) ● BDK WASM library (33:28) Releases and release candidates ● Core Lightning 25.12.1 (35:14) ● LND 0.20.1-beta.rc1 (39:14) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #32471 (40:57) ● Bitcoin Core #34146 (42:02) ● Core Lightning #8831 (45:00) ● LDK #4261 (45:35) ● LDK #4152 (46:24) ● LND #10488 (47:42) ● LND #10331 (48:43) ● Rust Bitcoin #5402 (49:06) ● BIPs #1820 (50:39) ● BOLTs #1306 (51:41) ● BLIPs #59 (53:05)

    54 min

  7. JAN 20

    Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #388 Recap

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bruno Garcia to discuss ⁠Newsletter #388⁠. News ● An overview of incremental mutation testing in Bitcoin Core (0:43) ● BIP process updated (18:53) Releases and release candidates ● Bitcoin Core 30.2 (26:31) ● BTCPay Server 2.3.3 (27:23) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #33819 (28:42) ● Bitcoin Core #29415 (31:44) ● Core Lightning #8830 (42:16) ● Eclair #3233 (44:19) ● Eclair #3237 (47:59) ● LDK #4232 (50:00) ● LND #10296 (52:24) ● BTCPay Server #7068 (53:43) ● BIPs #1982 (55:37)

    59 min

  8. JAN 14

    Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #387 Recap

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt and Craig Raw to discuss ⁠Newsletter #387⁠. News ● Bitcoin Core wallet migration bug (0:55) ● Using Ark as a channel factory (7:47) ● Draft BIP for silent payment descriptors (29:02) Releases and release candidates ● Bitcoin Core 30.2rc1 (58:34) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #34156 (59:32) ● Bitcoin Core #34085 (1:03:54) ● Bitcoin Core #34197 (1:07:43) ● Bitcoin Core #33135 (1:09:10) ● LDK #4213 (1:11:02) ● Eclair #3217 (1:15:39) ● LND #10367 (1:18:49) ● Rust Bitcoin #5450 (1:22:51) ● Rust Bitcoin #5434 (1:23:40)

    1h 24m
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  • Creator
    Bitcoin Optech
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
  • Episodes
    188
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