Listen "Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #239 Recap"
Episode Synopsis
Join Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt as they are joined by James O’Beirne, Christian Decker, and Russell O’Connor to discuss Newsletter #239.
A full transcript of the discussion is available here.
News
Draft BIP for OP_VAULT (1:18)
LN quality of service flag (4:15)
Feedback requested on LN good neighbor scoring (13:58)
Proposed BIP for Codex32 seed encoding scheme (20:27)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Why is witness data downloaded during IBD in prune mode? (36:40)
Can Bitcoin’s P2P network relay compressed data? (40:39)
How does one become a DNS seed for Bitcoin Core? (41:18)
Where can I learn about open research topics in Bitcoin? (44:00)
What is the maximum size transaction that will be relayed by bitcoin nodes using the default configuration? (47:55)
Understanding how ordinals work with in Bitcoin. What is exactly stored on the blockchain? (50:07)
Why doesn’t the protocol allow unconfirmed transactions to expire at a given height? (51:00)
Releases and release candidates
BDK 0.27.1 (52:44)
Core Lightning 23.02rc3 (53:16)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #24149 (53:57)
Bitcoin Core #25344 (56:10)
Eclair #2596 (58:09)
Eclair #2595 (59:31)
Eclair #2479 (59:45)
LND #5988 (1:00:09)
Rust Bitcoin #1636 (1:00:42)
A full transcript of the discussion is available here.
News
Draft BIP for OP_VAULT (1:18)
LN quality of service flag (4:15)
Feedback requested on LN good neighbor scoring (13:58)
Proposed BIP for Codex32 seed encoding scheme (20:27)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Why is witness data downloaded during IBD in prune mode? (36:40)
Can Bitcoin’s P2P network relay compressed data? (40:39)
How does one become a DNS seed for Bitcoin Core? (41:18)
Where can I learn about open research topics in Bitcoin? (44:00)
What is the maximum size transaction that will be relayed by bitcoin nodes using the default configuration? (47:55)
Understanding how ordinals work with in Bitcoin. What is exactly stored on the blockchain? (50:07)
Why doesn’t the protocol allow unconfirmed transactions to expire at a given height? (51:00)
Releases and release candidates
BDK 0.27.1 (52:44)
Core Lightning 23.02rc3 (53:16)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #24149 (53:57)
Bitcoin Core #25344 (56:10)
Eclair #2596 (58:09)
Eclair #2595 (59:31)
Eclair #2479 (59:45)
LND #5988 (1:00:09)
Rust Bitcoin #1636 (1:00:42)
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