Listen "Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #230 Recap"
Episode Synopsis
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ben Carman and Joost Jager to discuss Newsletter #230.
News
Factory-optimized LN protocol proposal (2:34)
Local jamming to prevent remote jamming (9:28)
Monitoring of full-RBF replacements (29:17)
Changes to services and client software
Lily Wallet adds coin selection (38:57)
Vortex software creates LN channels from a coinjoin (41:42)
Mutiny demonstrates LN node in a browser PoC (49:31)
Coinkite launches BinaryWatch.org (55:02)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Why is connecting to the Bitcoin network exclusively over Tor considered a bad practice? (57:46)
Why aren't 3 party (or more) channels realistically possible in Lightning today? (1:01:38)
With legacy wallets deprecated, will Bitcoin Core be able to sign messages for an address? (1:06:14)
How do I set up a time-decay multisig? (1:09:07)
When is a miniscript solution malleable? (1:11:01)
Releases and release candidates
Bitcoin Core 24.0.1 (1:14:02)
libsecp256k1 0.2.0 (1:14:30)
Core Lightning 22.11.1 (1:15:26)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #25934 (1:16:24)
LND #7159 (1:17:10)
LDK #1835 (1:17:38)
BOLTs #1021 (1:21:28)
News
Factory-optimized LN protocol proposal (2:34)
Local jamming to prevent remote jamming (9:28)
Monitoring of full-RBF replacements (29:17)
Changes to services and client software
Lily Wallet adds coin selection (38:57)
Vortex software creates LN channels from a coinjoin (41:42)
Mutiny demonstrates LN node in a browser PoC (49:31)
Coinkite launches BinaryWatch.org (55:02)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Why is connecting to the Bitcoin network exclusively over Tor considered a bad practice? (57:46)
Why aren't 3 party (or more) channels realistically possible in Lightning today? (1:01:38)
With legacy wallets deprecated, will Bitcoin Core be able to sign messages for an address? (1:06:14)
How do I set up a time-decay multisig? (1:09:07)
When is a miniscript solution malleable? (1:11:01)
Releases and release candidates
Bitcoin Core 24.0.1 (1:14:02)
libsecp256k1 0.2.0 (1:14:30)
Core Lightning 22.11.1 (1:15:26)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #25934 (1:16:24)
LND #7159 (1:17:10)
LDK #1835 (1:17:38)
BOLTs #1021 (1:21:28)
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