Listen "Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #313 Recap"
Episode Synopsis
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #313.
News
Varied discussion of free relay and fee bumping upgrades (0:31)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Why is restructure of mempool required with cluster mempool? (29:54)
DEFAULT_MAX_PEER_CONNECTIONS for Bitcoin Core is 125 or 130? (36:32)
Why do protocol developers work on maximizing miner revenue? (38:34)
Is there an economic incentive to use P2WSH over P2TR? (42:26)
How many blocks per second can sustainably be created using a time warp attack? (45:30)
pkh() nested in tr() is allowed? (49:01)
Can a block more than a week old be considered a valid chain tip? (51:25)
SIGHASH_ANYONECANPAY mediated tx modification (57:35)
Why does RBF rule #3 exist? (1:00:35)
Releases and release candidates
BDK 1.0.0-beta.1 (1:02:05)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #30320 (1:02:58)
Bitcoin Core #29523 (1:07:42)
Core Lightning #7461 (1:10:03)
Eclair #2881 (1:11:06)
News
Varied discussion of free relay and fee bumping upgrades (0:31)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
Why is restructure of mempool required with cluster mempool? (29:54)
DEFAULT_MAX_PEER_CONNECTIONS for Bitcoin Core is 125 or 130? (36:32)
Why do protocol developers work on maximizing miner revenue? (38:34)
Is there an economic incentive to use P2WSH over P2TR? (42:26)
How many blocks per second can sustainably be created using a time warp attack? (45:30)
pkh() nested in tr() is allowed? (49:01)
Can a block more than a week old be considered a valid chain tip? (51:25)
SIGHASH_ANYONECANPAY mediated tx modification (57:35)
Why does RBF rule #3 exist? (1:00:35)
Releases and release candidates
BDK 1.0.0-beta.1 (1:02:05)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #30320 (1:02:58)
Bitcoin Core #29523 (1:07:42)
Core Lightning #7461 (1:10:03)
Eclair #2881 (1:11:06)
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