Listen "Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #331 Recap"
Episode Synopsis
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns to discuss Newsletter #331.
News
Lisp dialect for Bitcoin scripting (0:48)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
How does ColliderScript improve Bitcoin and what features does it enable? (43:24)
Why do standardness rules limit transaction weight? (48:10)
Is the scriptSig spending an PayToAnchor output expected to always be empty? (56:16)
What happens to the unused P2A outputs? (57:13)
Why doesn't Bitcoin's PoW algorithm use a chain of lower-difficulty hashes? (1:01:47)
Clarification on false value in Script (1:04:38)
What is this strange microtransaction in my wallet? (1:06:02)
Are there any UTXOs that can not be spent? (1:09:04)
Why was BIP34 not implemented via the coinbase tx's locktime or nSequence? (1:13:15)
Releases and release candidates
Core Lightning 24.11rc2 (1:15:19)
BDK 0.30.0 (1:15:49)
LND 0.18.4-beta.rc1 (1:16:16)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #31122 (1:17:17)
Core Lightning #7852 (1:20:25)
Core Lightning #7740 (1:21:27)
Core Lightning #7719 (1:22:48)
Eclair #2935 (1:23:47)
LDK #3137 (1:24:34)
LND #8337 (1:26:22)
News
Lisp dialect for Bitcoin scripting (0:48)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
How does ColliderScript improve Bitcoin and what features does it enable? (43:24)
Why do standardness rules limit transaction weight? (48:10)
Is the scriptSig spending an PayToAnchor output expected to always be empty? (56:16)
What happens to the unused P2A outputs? (57:13)
Why doesn't Bitcoin's PoW algorithm use a chain of lower-difficulty hashes? (1:01:47)
Clarification on false value in Script (1:04:38)
What is this strange microtransaction in my wallet? (1:06:02)
Are there any UTXOs that can not be spent? (1:09:04)
Why was BIP34 not implemented via the coinbase tx's locktime or nSequence? (1:13:15)
Releases and release candidates
Core Lightning 24.11rc2 (1:15:19)
BDK 0.30.0 (1:15:49)
LND 0.18.4-beta.rc1 (1:16:16)
Notable code and documentation changes
Bitcoin Core #31122 (1:17:17)
Core Lightning #7852 (1:20:25)
Core Lightning #7740 (1:21:27)
Core Lightning #7719 (1:22:48)
Eclair #2935 (1:23:47)
LDK #3137 (1:24:34)
LND #8337 (1:26:22)
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