Listen "Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #253 Recap"
Episode Synopsis
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Burak Keceli, Dave Harding, and Joost Jager to discuss Newsletter #253.
News
Proposal for a managed joinpool protocol (1:46)
Transaction relay over Nostr (40:38)
Waiting for confirmation #3: Bidding for block space (1:00:02)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Testing pruning logic with bitcoind (1:12:38)
What's the governing motivation for the descendent size limit? (1:13:19)
How does it contribute to the Bitcoin network when I run a node with a bigger than default mempool? (1:16:48)
What is the maximum number of inputs/outputs a transaction can have? (1:21:18)
Can 2-of-3 multisig funds be recovered without one of the xpubs? (1:23:50)
Releases and release candidates
Bitcoin Core 25.0 (1:27:05)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #27469 (1:30:27)
Bitcoin Core #27626 (1:32:40)
Bitcoin Core #25796 (1:35:24)
Eclair #2668 (1:37:17)
Eclair #2666 (1:39:20)
BTCPay Server 97e7e (1:41:56)
BIPs #1446 (1:43:15)
News
Proposal for a managed joinpool protocol (1:46)
Transaction relay over Nostr (40:38)
Waiting for confirmation #3: Bidding for block space (1:00:02)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Testing pruning logic with bitcoind (1:12:38)
What's the governing motivation for the descendent size limit? (1:13:19)
How does it contribute to the Bitcoin network when I run a node with a bigger than default mempool? (1:16:48)
What is the maximum number of inputs/outputs a transaction can have? (1:21:18)
Can 2-of-3 multisig funds be recovered without one of the xpubs? (1:23:50)
Releases and release candidates
Bitcoin Core 25.0 (1:27:05)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #27469 (1:30:27)
Bitcoin Core #27626 (1:32:40)
Bitcoin Core #25796 (1:35:24)
Eclair #2668 (1:37:17)
Eclair #2666 (1:39:20)
BTCPay Server 97e7e (1:41:56)
BIPs #1446 (1:43:15)
More episodes of the podcast Bitcoin Optech Podcast
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #375 Recap
17/10/2025
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #374 Recap
07/10/2025
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #373 Recap
01/10/2025
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #372 Recap
23/09/2025
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #371 Recap
16/09/2025
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #370 Recap
10/09/2025
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #368 Recap
08/09/2025
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #369 Recap
02/09/2025
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #367 Recap
19/08/2025
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #366 Recap
13/08/2025