Listen "Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #246 Recap"
Episode Synopsis
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Lisa Neigut and Niklas Gögge to discuss Newsletter #246.
News
Splicing specification discussions (1:24)
Proposed BIP for transaction terminology (40:49)
Bitcoin Core PR Review Club
Don’t download witnesses for assumed-valid blocks when running in prune mode (43:42)
Releases and release candidates
Libsecp256k1 0.3.1 (53:10)
BDK 1.0.0-alpha.0 (58:08)
Notable code and documentation changes
Core Lightning #6012 (58:33)
Core Lightning #6124 (1:02:01)
Eclair #2607 (1:03:06)
LND #7437 (1:04:05)
LND #7069 (1:04:43)
BIPs #1372 (1:06:18)
News
Splicing specification discussions (1:24)
Proposed BIP for transaction terminology (40:49)
Bitcoin Core PR Review Club
Don’t download witnesses for assumed-valid blocks when running in prune mode (43:42)
Releases and release candidates
Libsecp256k1 0.3.1 (53:10)
BDK 1.0.0-alpha.0 (58:08)
Notable code and documentation changes
Core Lightning #6012 (58:33)
Core Lightning #6124 (1:02:01)
Eclair #2607 (1:03:06)
LND #7437 (1:04:05)
LND #7069 (1:04:43)
BIPs #1372 (1:06:18)
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