Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jay Beddict to discuss ⁠Newsletter #318⁠.
News

New Bitcoin Mining Development mailing list (0:48)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

Can a BIP152 compact block be sent before validation by a node that doesn't know all transactions? (15:03)
Did Segwit (BIP141) eliminate all txid malleability issues listed in BIP62? (18:13)
Why are the checkpoints still in the codebase in 2024? (22:35)
Bulletproof++ as generic ZKP ala SNARKs? (26:28)
How can OP_CAT be used to implement additional covenants? (28:13)
Why do some bech32 bitcoin addresses contain a large number of 'q's? (32:25)
How does a 0-conf signature bond work? (37:29)

Releases and release candidates

Core Lightning 24.08rc2 (42:45)
LND v0.18.3-beta.rc1 (43:13)
BDK 1.0.0-beta.2 (43:43)
Bitcoin Core 28.0rc1 (45:10)

Notable code and documentation changes

LDK #3263 (48:15)
LDK #3247 (49:10)
BDK #1569 (50:13)

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