Listen "Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #257 Recap"
Episode Synopsis
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Robin Linus, Dave Harding, and Pavlenex to discuss Newsletter #257.
News
Preventing coinjoin pinning with v3 transaction relay (16:08)
Speculatively using hoped-for consensus changes (1:33)
Waiting for confirmation #7: Network Resources (24:46)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Why do Bitcoin nodes accept blocks that have so many excluded transactions? (57:38)
Why does everyone say that soft forks restrict the existing ruleset? (1:05:28)
Why is the default LN channel limit set to 16777215 sats? (1:07:47)
Why does Bitcoin Core use ancestor score instead of just ancestor fee rate to select transactions? (1:10:28)
How does Lightning multipart payments (MPP) protocol define the amounts per part? (1:14:15)
Releases and release candidates
BTCPay Server 1.10.3 (1:16:08)
Notable code and documentation changes
Core Lightning #6303 (1:21:14)
Eclair #2701 (1:22:21)
Eclair #2696 (1:25:03)
LND #7710 (1:26:51)
LDK #2368 (1:27:43)
LDK #2367 (1:33:34)
LDK #2319 (1:34:40)
LDK #2120 (1:37:09)
LDK #2089 (1:38:12)
LDK #2077 (1:39:08)
Libsecp256k1 #1129 (1:40:37)
News
Preventing coinjoin pinning with v3 transaction relay (16:08)
Speculatively using hoped-for consensus changes (1:33)
Waiting for confirmation #7: Network Resources (24:46)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Why do Bitcoin nodes accept blocks that have so many excluded transactions? (57:38)
Why does everyone say that soft forks restrict the existing ruleset? (1:05:28)
Why is the default LN channel limit set to 16777215 sats? (1:07:47)
Why does Bitcoin Core use ancestor score instead of just ancestor fee rate to select transactions? (1:10:28)
How does Lightning multipart payments (MPP) protocol define the amounts per part? (1:14:15)
Releases and release candidates
BTCPay Server 1.10.3 (1:16:08)
Notable code and documentation changes
Core Lightning #6303 (1:21:14)
Eclair #2701 (1:22:21)
Eclair #2696 (1:25:03)
LND #7710 (1:26:51)
LDK #2368 (1:27:43)
LDK #2367 (1:33:34)
LDK #2319 (1:34:40)
LDK #2120 (1:37:09)
LDK #2089 (1:38:12)
LDK #2077 (1:39:08)
Libsecp256k1 #1129 (1:40:37)
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