Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Valentine Wallace to discuss Newsletter #235.

News

Ephemeral anchors compared to `SIGHASH_GROUP` (0:58)
Request for proof that an async payment was accepted (12:04)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

Bitcoin Core signing keys were removed from repo. What is the new process? (27:53)
Why doesn't signet use a unique bech32 prefix? (31:36)
Arbitrary data storage in witness? (34:07)
Why is the locktime set at transaction level while the sequence is set at input level? (38:35)
BLS signatures vs Schnorr (42:30)
Why exactly would adding further divisibility to bitcoin require a hard fork? (46:56)

Notable code and documentation changes

Bitcoin Core #26325 (55:20)
Libsecp256k1 #1192 (57:37)
BIPs #1383 (1:00:22)

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