Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #257 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Robin Linus, Dave Harding, and Pavlenex to discuss Newsletter #257. News Preventing coinjoin pinning with v3 transaction relay (16:08) Speculatively using hoped-for consensus changes (1:33) Waiting for confirmation #7: Network Resources (24:46) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange Why do Bitcoin nodes accept blocks that have so many excluded transactions? (57:38) Why does everyone say that soft forks restrict the existing ruleset? (1:05:28) Why is the default LN channel limit set to 16777215 sats? (1:07:47) Why does Bitcoin Core use ancestor score instead of just ancestor fee rate to select transactions? (1:10:28) How does Lightning multipart payments (MPP) protocol define the amounts per part? (1:14:15) Releases and release candidates BTCPay Server 1.10.3 (1:16:08) Notable code and documentation changes Core Lightning #6303 (1:21:14) Eclair #2701 (1:22:21) Eclair #2696 (1:25:03) LND #7710 (1:26:51) LDK #2368 (1:27:43) LDK #2367 (1:33:34) LDK #2319 (1:34:40) LDK #2120 (1:37:09) LDK #2089 (1:38:12) LDK #2077 (1:39:08) Libsecp256k1 #1129 (1:40:37)