EPISODE · Sep 28, 2023 · 56 MIN
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #270 Recap
from Bitcoin Optech Podcast · host Bitcoin Optech
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns to discuss Newsletter #270. News Using covenants to improve LN scalability (2:07) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange How did peer discovery work in Bitcoin v0.1? (20:42) Would a series of reorgs cause Bitcoin to break because of the 2-hour block time difference restriction? (22:48) Is there a way to download blocks from scratch without downloading block headers first? (26:56) Where is the bitcoin source code is the 21 million hard cap stated? (28:56) Are blocks containing non-standard transactions relayed through the network or not as in the case of non-standard transactions? (31:50) When does Bitcoin Core allow you to Abandon transaction? (35:47) Releases and release candidates LND v0.17.0-beta.rc5 (39:07) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #28492 (39:54) Bitcoin Core GUI #119 (41:13) Bitcoin Core GUI #738 (42:49) Bitcoin Core #28246 (44:18) Core Lightning #6311 (46:30) Core Lightning #6617 (47:23) Core Lightning #6686 (47:55) Eclair #2613 (48:44) LND #7994 (50:18) LDK #2547 (51:10) LDK #2534 (53:01)
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns to discuss Newsletter #270. News Using covenants to improve LN scalability (2:07) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange How did peer discovery work in Bitcoin v0.1? (20:42) Would a series of reorgs cause Bitcoin to break because of the 2-hour block time difference restriction? (22:48) Is there a way to download blocks from scratch without downloading block headers first? (26:56) Where is the bitcoin source code is the 21 million hard cap stated? (28:56) Are blocks containing non-standard transactions relayed through the network or not as in the case of non-standard transactions? (31:50) When does Bitcoin Core allow you to Abandon transaction? (35:47) Releases and release candidates LND v0.17.0-beta.rc5 (39:07) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #28492 (39:54) Bitcoin Core GUI #119 (41:13) Bitcoin Core GUI #738 (42:49) Bitcoin Core #28246 (44:18) Core Lightning #6311 (46:30) Core Lightning #6617 (47:23) Core Lightning #6686 (47:55) Eclair #2613 (48:44) LND #7994 (50:18) LDK #2547 (51:10) LDK #2534 (53:01)
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