Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns to discuss Newsletter #270.

News

Using covenants to improve LN scalability (2:07)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

How did peer discovery work in Bitcoin v0.1? (20:42)
Would a series of reorgs cause Bitcoin to break because of the 2-hour block time difference restriction? (22:48)
Is there a way to download blocks from scratch without downloading block headers first? (26:56)
Where is the bitcoin source code is the 21 million hard cap stated? (28:56)
Are blocks containing non-standard transactions relayed through the network or not as in the case of non-standard transactions? (31:50)
When does Bitcoin Core allow you to Abandon transaction? (35:47)

Releases and release candidates

LND v0.17.0-beta.rc5 (39:07)

Notable code and documentation changes

Bitcoin Core #28492 (39:54)
Bitcoin Core GUI #119 (41:13)
Bitcoin Core GUI #738 (42:49)
Bitcoin Core #28246 (44:18)
Core Lightning #6311 (46:30)
Core Lightning #6617 (47:23)
Core Lightning #6686 (47:55)
Eclair #2613 (48:44)
LND #7994 (50:18)
LDK #2547 (51:10)
LDK #2534 (53:01)

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