Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao and Brandon Black to discuss ⁠Newsletter #287⁠.
News

Kindred replace by fee (1:10)
Opposition to CTV based on commonly requiring exogenous fees (19:11)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

How does block synchronization work in Bitcoin Core today? (28:14)
How does headers-first prevent disk-fill attack? (30:31)
Is BIP324 v2transport redundant on Tor and I2P connections? (33:57)
What's a rule of thumb for setting the maximum number of connections? (34:57)
Why isn't the upper bound (+2h) on the block timestamp set as a consensus rule? (37:01)
Sigop count and its influence on transaction selection? (43:22)

Releases and release candidates

HWI 2.4.0 (48:03)

Notable code and documentation changes

Bitcoin Core #29291 (48:41)
Eclair #2811 (49:23)
LND #8167 (52:10)
LND #7733 (53:01)
LND #8275 (54:01)
Rust Bitcoin #2366 (56:34)
HWI #716 (58:35)
BDK #1172 (58:49)
BINANAs #3 (59:29)

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