Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #299 Recap Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gregory Sanders to discuss ⁠Newsletter #299⁠.



News


Weak blocks proof-of-concept implementation (0:56)
BIP editors update (20:08)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange


Where exactly is the off-by-one difficulty bug? (26:44)
How is P2TR different than P2PKH using opcodes from a developer perspective? (32:10)
Are replacement transactions larger in size than their predecessors and than non-RBF transactions? (34:15)
Are Bitcoin signatures still vulnerable to nonce reuse? (36:59)
How do miners manually add transactions to a block template? (39:48)

Releases and release candidates


LND v0.17.5-beta (41:40)

Notable code and documentation changes


Bitcoin Core #29850 (46:35)