Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sergi Delgado to discuss  ⁠Newsletter #314⁠ . News Disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 22.0 (0:56) Optimizing block building with cluster mempool (11:23) Hyperion network event simulator for the Bitcoin P2P network (14:30) Releases and release candidates BDK 1.0.0-beta.1 (41:01) Notable code and documentation chan...

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...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick and Pieter Wuille to discuss  ⁠Newsletter #312⁠ . News Distributed key generation protocol for FROST (1:37) Introduction to cluster linearization (28:45) Changes to services and client software ZEUS adds BOLT12 offers and BIP353 support (56:15) Phoenix adds BOLT12 offers and BIP353 support (57:02) Stack Wallet adds RBF and CPFP support...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Vojtěch Strnad and Fabian Jahr to discuss  Newsletter #311 . News (1:00) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Testnet4 including PoW difficulty adjustment fix (15:14) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Core 26.2 (37:23) LND v0.18.2-beta (37:42) Notable code and documentation changes Rust Bitcoin #2949 (40:04) BDK #1487 (41:20)

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot and Elle Mouton to discuss  ⁠Newsletter #310⁠ . News Disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 0.21.0 (0:59) Adding a BOLT11 invoice field for blinded paths (22:17) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Core 26.2rc1 (36:43) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #28167 (37:48) Bitcoin Core...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt to discuss  ⁠Newsletter #309⁠ . News Estimating the likelihood that an LN payment is feasible (1:04) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange How is the progress of Initial Block Download (IBD) calculated? (31:25) What is `progress increase per hour` during synchronization? (33:50) Should an even Y coordinate be enforced after...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jameson Lopp and Valentine Wallace to discuss  ⁠Newsletter #308⁠ . News Disclosure of vulnerability affecting old versions of LND (0:54) Continued discussion of PSBTs for silent payments (7:32) Changes to services and client software Casa adds descriptor support (10:55) Specter-DIY v1.9.0 released (40:52) Constant-time analysis tool cargo-checkct...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Hunter Beast and TheCharlatan to discuss  Newsletter #307 .

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Fabian Jahr, Anthony Towns, and Matt Corallo to discuss  Newsletter #306 . News Upcoming disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting old versions of Bitcoin Core (1:02) BIP and experimental implementation of testnet4 (10:17) Functional encryption covenants (24:58) Updates to proposed soft fork for 64-bit arithmetic (31:27) `OP_CAT` script to validate...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Setor Blagogee, Oghenovo Usiwoma, Pierre Rochard, and Alex Bosworth to discuss  Newsletter #305 . News Light client protocol for silent payments (1:52) Raw taproot descriptors (14:56) Should overlapping soft fork proposals be considered mutually exclusive? (28:02) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange What's the smallest possible coinb...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andrew Toth, Antoine Poinsot, and Tony Klausing to discuss  ⁠Newsletter #304⁠ . News Upgrading existing LN channels (1:27) Challenges in rewarding pool miners (6:58) Spending previously received SP outputs (12:40) Proposed miniscript BIP (21:32) Channel value pegging (31:42) Changes to services and client software Silent payment resources (43:50)...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Adam Gibson to discuss  ⁠Newsletter #303⁠ . News Anonymous usage tokens (1:58) BIP39 seed phrase splitting (31:48) Alternative to BitVM (38:05) Continued discussion about updating BIP2 (40:41) Releases and release candidates LND v0.18.0-beta.rc2 (44:25) Notable code and documentation changes Core Lightning #7190 (44:51) LDK #2973 (46:18) LDK #290...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Calvin Kim to discuss  ⁠Newsletter #302⁠ . News Release of utreexod beta (0:56) BIP119 extensions for smaller hashes and arbitrary data commitments (20:15) Releases and release candidates LDK v0.0.123 (25:16) LND v0.18.0-beta.rc2 (26:08) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #29845 (28:16) Core Lightning #7111 (29:34) Libsecp256k1 #...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ethan Heilman and Gloria Zhao to discuss  ⁠Newsletter #301⁠ . News Consensus-enforced lamport signatures on top of ECDSA signatures (1:00) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Index TxOrphanage by wtxid, allow entries with same txid (31:04) Releases and release candidates Libsecp256k1 v0.5.0 (51:15) LND v0.18.0-beta.rc1 (52:12) Notable code and documentat...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Tadge Dryja to discuss  ⁠Newsletter #300⁠ . News CTV-like exploding keys proposal (0:59) Analyzing a contract protocol with Alloy (13:07) Arrests of Bitcoin developers (22:37) CoreDev.tech Berlin event (28:53) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Inquisition 25.2 (31:35) LND v0.18.0-beta.rc1 (35:59) Notable code and documentation changes Bitco...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gregory Sanders to discuss  ⁠Newsletter #299⁠ . News Weak blocks proof-of-concept implementation (0:56) BIP editors update (20:08) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange Where exactly is the off-by-one difficulty bug? (26:44) How is P2TR different than P2PKH using opcodes from a developer perspective? (32:10) Are replacement transactions la...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss  ⁠Newsletter #298⁠ . News What would have happened if cluster mempool had been deployed a year ago? (0:42) Changes to services and client software Phoenix for server announced (19:26) Mercury Layer adds Lightning swaps (21:32) Stratum V2 Reference Implementation v1.0.0 released (22:46) Teleport Transactions update (25:09) Bitcoin Keeper v1.2.1 released...

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Kulpreet Singh, Chris Stewart, Jameson Lopp, and Joost Jager to discuss  ⁠Newsletter #297⁠ . News DSL for experimenting with contracts (1:24) Updating BIP2 (15:50) Discussion about resetting and modifying testnet (21:00) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Implement 64 bit arithmetic op codes in the Script interpreter (37:19) Releases and release candidates HWI...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot to discuss  ⁠Newsletter #296⁠ . News Revisiting consensus cleanup (0:46) Choosing new BIP editors (27:21) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Core 26.1 (37:22) Bitcoin Core 27.0rc1 (39:09) HWI 3.0.0-rc1 (39:40) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #27307 (40:59) Bitcoin Core #29242 (43:50) Core Lightning #7094 (...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, Peter Todd, Abubakar Sadiq Ismail, David Gumberg, and Jeffrey Czyz to discuss  Newsletter #295. News Disclosure of free relay attack (1:22) Transaction fee sponsorship improvements (9:55) Mempool-based feerate estimation (34:49) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange What are the risks of running a pre-SegWit node (0.12.1)? (5...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner, Anthony Towns, and Russell O’Connor to discuss  ⁠Newsletter #294⁠ . News BIP324 proxy for light clients (1:20) Overview of BTC Lisp (10:44) Changes to services and client software BitGo adds RBF support (38:59) Phoenix Wallet v2.2.0 released (40:11) Bitkey hardware signing device released (44:19) Envoy v1.6.0 released (47:49...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj, Anthony Towns, and Armin Sabouri to discuss  Newsletter #293 . News Trustless onchain betting on potential soft forks (1:11) Overview of Chia Lisp for Bitcoiners (14:06) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Re enable `OP_CAT` (35:48) Releases and release candidates Core Lightning v24.02.1 (50:33) Bitcoin Core 26.1rc1 (51:03) Bitcoin Core 27.0rc1...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Josie Baker, Salvatore Ingala, and Fabian Jahr to discuss  ⁠Newsletter #292⁠ . News Updating BIP21 `bitcoin:` URIs (18:07) PSBTs for multiple concurrent MuSig2 signing sessions (46:30) Discussion about adding more BIP editors (58:33) GitLab backup for Bitcoin Core GitHub project (1:11) Releases and release candidates Eclair v0.10.0 (1:03:24) Bitc...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Richard Myers, Rijndael, Luke Dashjr, and Jason Hughes to discuss  Newsletter #291 . News Trustless contract for miner feerate futures (1:31) Coin selection for liquidity providers (7:18) Simple vault prototype using `OP_CAT` (21:15) Sending and receiving ecash using LN and ZKCPs (44:44) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange Why can't...

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, callebtc, Chris Stewart, Fabian Jahr, and Pierre Corbin to discuss  ⁠Newsletter #290⁠ . News DNS-based human-readable Bitcoin payment instructions (1:41) Thinking about mempool incentive compatibility (9:50) Cashu and other ecash system design discussion (29:15) Continued discussion about 64-bit arithmetic and `OP_INOUT_AMOUNT` opcod...