Listen "Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #315 Recap"
Episode Synopsis
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Corallo, Greg Sanders, Sivaram Dhakshinamoorthy to discuss Newsletter #315.
News
Faster seed exfiltration attack (1:24)
Block withholding attacks and potential solutions (17:21)
Statistics on compact block reconstruction (21:47)
Replacement cycle attack against pay-to-anchor (36:23)
Proposed BIP for scriptless threshold signatures (42:24)
Optimistic verification of zero-knowledge proofs using CAT, MATT, and Elftrace (50:40)
Bitcoin Core PR Review Club (33:15)
Releases and release candidates
Libsecp256k1 0.5.1 (53:11)
BDK 1.0.0-beta.1 (53:43)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #30493 (54:38)
Bitcoin Core #30285 (57:33)
Bitcoin Core #30352 (1:02:26)
Bitcoin Core #29775 (1:02:39)
Core Lightning #7476 (1:08:21)
Eclair #2884 (1:08:55)
LND #8952 (1:12:10)
LND #8735 (1:13:40)
BIPs #1601 (1:14:44)
News
Faster seed exfiltration attack (1:24)
Block withholding attacks and potential solutions (17:21)
Statistics on compact block reconstruction (21:47)
Replacement cycle attack against pay-to-anchor (36:23)
Proposed BIP for scriptless threshold signatures (42:24)
Optimistic verification of zero-knowledge proofs using CAT, MATT, and Elftrace (50:40)
Bitcoin Core PR Review Club (33:15)
Releases and release candidates
Libsecp256k1 0.5.1 (53:11)
BDK 1.0.0-beta.1 (53:43)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #30493 (54:38)
Bitcoin Core #30285 (57:33)
Bitcoin Core #30352 (1:02:26)
Bitcoin Core #29775 (1:02:39)
Core Lightning #7476 (1:08:21)
Eclair #2884 (1:08:55)
LND #8952 (1:12:10)
LND #8735 (1:13:40)
BIPs #1601 (1:14:44)
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