EPISODE · Jul 27, 2023 · 1H 19M
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #261 Recap
from Bitcoin Optech Podcast · host Bitcoin Optech
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Greg Sanders and Bastien Teinturier to discuss Newsletter #261. News Simplified LN closing protocol (1:03) LN Summit notes (10:48) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange How can I manually (on paper) calculate a Bitcoin public key from a private key? (57:18) Why are there 17 native segwit versions? (59:43) Does `0 OP_CSV` force the spending transaction to signal BIP125 replaceability? (1:03:04) How do route hints affect pathfinding? (1:08:23) What does it mean that the security of 256-bit ECDSA, and therefore Bitcoin keys, is 128 bits? (1:12:26) Releases and release candidates HWI 2.3.0 (1:15:09) LDK 0.0.116 (1:16:37) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core GUI #740 (1:17:18)
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Greg Sanders and Bastien Teinturier to discuss Newsletter #261. News Simplified LN closing protocol (1:03) LN Summit notes (10:48) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange How can I manually (on paper) calculate a Bitcoin public key from a private key? (57:18) Why are there 17 native segwit versions? (59:43) Does `0 OP_CSV` force the spending transaction to signal BIP125 replaceability? (1:03:04) How do route hints affect pathfinding? (1:08:23) What does it mean that the security of 256-bit ECDSA, and therefore Bitcoin keys, is 128 bits? (1:12:26) Releases and release candidates HWI 2.3.0 (1:15:09) LDK 0.0.116 (1:16:37) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core GUI #740 (1:17:18)
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