Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #305 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Setor Blagogee, Oghenovo Usiwoma, Pierre Rochard, and Alex Bosworth to discuss Newsletter #305. News Light client protocol for silent payments (1:52) Raw taproot descriptors (14:56) Should overlapping soft fork proposals be considered mutually exclusive? (28:02) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange What's the smallest possible coinbase transaction / block size? (1:13:32) Understanding Script's number encoding, CScriptNum (1:14:18) Is there a way to make a BTC wallet address public but hide how many BTC it contains? (1:16:04) Testing increased feerates in regtest (1:18:05) Why is my P2P_V2 peer connected over a v1 connection? (1:20:41) Does a P2PKH transaction send to the hash of the uncompressed key or the compressed key? (1:21:58) What are different ways to broadcast a block to the Bitcoin network? (1:23:20) Releases and release candidates LND v0.18.0-beta (43:23) Core Lightning 24.05rc2 (1:12:21) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #29612 (1:27:11) Bitcoin Core #27064 (1:29:59) Bitcoin Core #29873 (1:30:55) Bitcoin Core #30062 (1:34:15) Bitcoin Core #26606 (1:38:17) BOLTs #1092 (1:41:41)