EPISODE · May 18, 2023 · 1H 13M
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #251 Recap
from Bitcoin Optech Podcast · host Bitcoin Optech
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Carla Kirk-Cohen, Severin Bühler, and Dan Gould to discuss Newsletter #251. News Testing HTLC endorsement (1:33) Request for feedback on proposed specifications for LSPs (14:52) Challenges with zero-conf channels when dual funding (20:59) Advanced payjoin applications (24:51) Summaries of Bitcoin Core developers in-person meeting (37:35) Waiting for confirmation #1: why do we have a mempool? (51:07) Releases and release candidates Libsecp256k1 0.3.2 (1:04:21) Core Lightning 23.05rc2 (1:05:07) Bitcoin Core 23.2rc1 (1:05:20) Bitcoin Core 24.1rc3 (1:05:20) Bitcoin Core 25.0rc2 (1:05:20) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #26076 (1:06:10) Bitcoin Core #27608 (1:07:20) LDK #2286 (1:08:27) LDK #1794 (1:08:47) Rust Bitcoin #1844 (1:09:08) Rust Bitcoin #1837 (1:11:33) BOLTs #1075 (1:12:04)
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Carla Kirk-Cohen, Severin Bühler, and Dan Gould to discuss Newsletter #251. News Testing HTLC endorsement (1:33) Request for feedback on proposed specifications for LSPs (14:52) Challenges with zero-conf channels when dual funding (20:59) Advanced payjoin applications (24:51) Summaries of Bitcoin Core developers in-person meeting (37:35) Waiting for confirmation #1: why do we have a mempool? (51:07) Releases and release candidates Libsecp256k1 0.3.2 (1:04:21) Core Lightning 23.05rc2 (1:05:07) Bitcoin Core 23.2rc1 (1:05:20) Bitcoin Core 24.1rc3 (1:05:20) Bitcoin Core 25.0rc2 (1:05:20) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #26076 (1:06:10) Bitcoin Core #27608 (1:07:20) LDK #2286 (1:08:27) LDK #1794 (1:08:47) Rust Bitcoin #1844 (1:09:08) Rust Bitcoin #1837 (1:11:33) BOLTs #1075 (1:12:04)
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