Listen "Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #219 Recap"
Episode Synopsis
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns and Andreas Kouloumos to discuss Newsletter #219.
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)
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)
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