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. 3d ago

    Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #416 Recap

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Rob Hamilton, PortlandHODL, Chandra Pratap, and fabohax to discuss Newsletter #416. Action items ● Move funds secured by COLDCARD-generated keys (1:07) 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 ● BTCPay Server 2.4.1 (1:41:25) ● Eclair 0.14.1 (1:42:14) 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 (2:01:01) ● BOLTs #1343 (2:04:14)

  2. Jul 28

    Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #415 Recap

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Fabian Jahr, Kruw, and Mojo to discuss ⁠Newsletter #415⁠. News ● Draft BIP for full aggregation of BIP340 signatures (1:32) Changes to services and client software ● Wasabi Wallet 2.8.0 released (33:11) ● Coinswap v0.2.2 released (46:08) ● Go secp256k1 library announced (1:08:38) ● ASMap dashboard announced (21:06) ● Wavelength alpha released (1:10:01) Releases and release candidates ● Core Lightning v26.06.6 (1:13:06) ● Bitcoin Inquisition 29.4 (1:16:03) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #35215 (1:17:11) ● Bitcoin Core #35766 (1:21:16) ● BIPs #2075 (1:22:44) ● BIPs #2204 (1:25:46) ● Core Lightning #8935 (1:28:43) ● Core Lightning #9324 (1:33:14) ● libsecp256k1 #1765 (1:35:16) ● Rust Bitcoin #6317 (1:41:46) ● BTCPay Server #7457 (1:44:10) ● BLIPs #71 (1:46:24)

  3. Jul 21

    Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #414 Recap

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Keagan McClelland and Andrew Toth to discuss Newsletter #414. News ● Formal verification of the Bitcoin protocol (1:11) Releases and release candidates ● Bitcoin Core 30.3 (39:42) ● Bitcoin Core 29.4 (39:43) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #35295 (52:43) ● Bitcoin Core #34897 (1:13:54) ● Bitcoin Core #35406 (1:16:13) ● Bitcoin Core #35380 (1:21:36) ● Bitcoin Core #35568 (1:07:36) ● Bitcoin Core #34538 (1:23:43) ● BIPs #2208 (1:25:52) ● LND #10962 (1:27:27) ● LND #10897 (1:30:12) ● BINANAs #21 (1:31:34)

  4. Jul 14

    Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #413 Recap

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sjors Provoost to discuss Newsletter #413. News ● Using fountain codes for IBD (13:53) Releases and release candidates ● Bitcoin Core 31.1 (22:52) ● LND v0.20.2-beta (28:49) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #32489 (31:11) ● Bitcoin Core #32606 (33:59) ● Bitcoin Core #34020 (0:48) ● Core Lightning #9104 (42:55) ● Eclair #3323 (45:11) ● LND #10832 (46:24)

  5. Jul 8

    Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #412 Recap

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Conduition and Jeremy Rubin to discuss Newsletter #412. Changing consensus ● Benchmarking SLH-DSA STARK aggregation (1:05) ● Bird of Prey 2 (BoP-2) non-malleable schnorr and PQ signatures (10:21) ● Lattice-based signatures (19:41) ● Public key recovery for P2MR EC leaves (25:50) ● Aligning privacy incentives in P2MR (30:48) ● Prohibit merkle internal node preimages that encode minimal 64-byte transactions (49:38) ● Triggering EC disabling with a NUMS point spend or hashrate majority (37:36) Releases and release candidates ● Bitcoin Core 31.1rc1 (1:32:43) ● Bitcoin Core 30.3rc1 (1:32:48) ● Bitcoin Core 29.4rc1 (1:32:52) ● Core Lightning v26.06.2 (1:36:01) ● LND v0.20.2-beta.rc1 (1:36:39) ● LND v0.21.1-beta (1:38:10) ● LDK v0.2.4 (1:38:57) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #35266 (1:40:00) ● Bitcoin Core #35550 (1:41:10) ● Bitcoin Core #35610 (1:42:15) ● BIPs #2196 (1:43:52) ● BIPs #2165 (1:47:46) ● BIPs #2201 (1:50:13) ● LND #10900 (1:51:20) ● LND #10927 (1:52:37) ● LDK #4748 (1:54:13)

  6. Jul 1

    Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #411 Recap

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Nishant Bansal and Matthew Zipkin to discuss Newsletter #411. News ● LND zero-timestamp gossip DoS disclosure (1:00) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange ● Is it a bug that `OP_IF` is part of the tapscript opcodes? (34:02) ● Why would forbidding `OP_IF` in tapscript be a problem? (41:11) ● Does a softfork always succeed? (49:17) ● How to set up Bitcoin Core to mine a valid block after the BIP110 activation in August 2026? (56:44) ● Are BIP110 blocks on a branch with lower difficulty valid? (59:47) ● What is the story behind Bitcoin test networks? (1:07:41) ● Why was `-datacarriersize` redefined in 2022, and why was the 2023 proposal to expand it not merged? (1:15:35) ● Are chains of 26 unconfirmed transactions prohibited by the wallet in Bitcoin Core 31.0? (1:25:33) ● Are there changes in Bitcoin Core 29.0 that affect memory usage? (1:28:20) ● What is Bitcoin Core's release schedule? (1:30:21) Releases and release candidates ● LDK v0.1.10 (1:34:50) ● LDK v0.2.3 (1:35:31) ● BTCPay Server 2.4.0 (1:37:04) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #35070 (1:39:27) ● Bitcoin Core #35182 (13:15) ● BIPs #2198 (1:46:09) ● LDK #4713 (1:51:17) ● LDK #4684 (1:53:47)

  7. Jun 23

    Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #410 Recap

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by rkrux, Roland Bewick, and Steven Roose to discuss ⁠Newsletter #410⁠. News ● Discussion of removing RBF signaling from wallet transactions (0:57) Changes to services and client software ● Sparrow Wallet 2.5.0 adds silent payments receiving (59:55) ● Bark live on Bitcoin mainnet (29:46) ● Arké Ark wallet announced (32:18) ● Noah Ark wallet announced (31:52) ● Alby Hub v1.23.0 released (15:00) ● JoinMarket NG 0.32.0 released (1:01:02) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #35221 (1:02:13) ● Bitcoin Core #35254 (1:06:59) ● Bitcoin Core #35498 (1:09:26) ● Eclair #3318 (1:11:06) ● LND #10789 (1:13:05) ● Rust Bitcoin #6321 (1:14:09) ● LDK #4685 (1:16:14)

  8. Jun 17

    Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #409 Recap

    Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Vasil Dimov to discuss Newsletter #409. News ● Draft BIP for testnet5 (0:31) Releases and release candidates ● LND 0.21.0-beta (17:25) ● Core Lightning 26.06.1 (20:19) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #35410 (21:28) ● Bitcoin Core #34779 (38:00) ● Bitcoin Core #32150 (41:36) ● LDK #4647 (45:14) ● BTCPay Server #7218 (51:34) ● BIPs #2186 (53:07)

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    Bitcoin Optech
  • Years Active
    2023 - 2026
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    210
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