Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #239 Recap

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Join Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt as they are joined by James O’Beirne, Christian Decker, and Russell O’Connor to discuss Newsletter #239. A full transcript of the discussion is available here. News Draft BIP for OP_VAULT (1:18) LN quality of service flag (4:15) Feedback requested on LN good neighbor scoring (13:58) Proposed BIP for Codex32 seed encoding scheme (20:27) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange Why is witness data downloaded during IBD in prune mode? (36:40) Can Bitcoin’s P2P network relay compressed data? (40:39) How does one become a DNS seed for Bitcoin Core? (41:18) Where can I learn about open research topics in Bitcoin? (44:00) What is the maximum size transaction that will be relayed by bitcoin nodes using the default configuration? (47:55) Understanding how ordinals work with in Bitcoin. What is exactly stored on the blockchain? (50:07) Why doesn’t the protocol allow unconfirmed transactions to expire at a given height? (51:00) Releases and release candidates BDK 0.27.1 (52:44) Core Lightning 23.02rc3 (53:16) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #24149 (53:57) Bitcoin Core #25344 (56:10) Eclair #2596 (58:09) Eclair #2595 (59:31) Eclair #2479 (59:45) LND #5988 (1:00:09) Rust Bitcoin #1636 (1:00:42)

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Join Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt as they are joined by James O’Beirne, Christian Decker, and Russell O’Connor to discuss Newsletter #239. A full transcript of the discussion is available here. News Draft BIP for OP_VAULT (1:18) LN...

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