EPISODE · May 1, 2026 · 1H 19M
Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #402 Recap
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Toby Sharp to discuss Newsletter #402.News● Hornet Node's declarative executable specification of Bitcoin consensus rules (1:02) ● Onion message jamming in the Lightning Network (23:22) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange● Why did BIP342 replace CHECKMULTISIG with a new opcode, instead of just removing FindAndDelete from it? (40:58) ● Does SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT commit to the tapleaf hash or the full taproot merkle path? (43:28) ● What does the BIP86 tweak guarantee in a MuSig2 Lightning channel, beyond address format? (45:23) Releases and release candidates● Bitcoin Core 31.0 (47:10) ● Core Lightning 26.04 (54:26) ● LND 0.21.0-beta.rc1 (56:35) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitcoin Core #33477 (57:55) ● Bitcoin Core #35006 (1:02:21) ● BIPs #1895 (1:04:31) ● BIPs #2142 (1:12:47) ● LDK #4555 (1:14:28) ● LND #10713 (1:16:23) ● LND #10754 (1:18:14)
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Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Toby Sharp to discuss Newsletter #402.News● Hornet Node's declarative executable specification of Bitcoin consensus rules (1:02) ● Onion message jamming in the Lightning Network (23:22) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange● Why did BIP342 replace CHECKMULTISIG with a new opcode, instead of just removing FindAndDelete from it? (40:58) ● Does SIGHASH_ANYPREVOUT commit to the tapleaf hash or the full taproot merkle path? (43:28) ● What does the BIP86 tweak guarantee in a MuSig2 Lightning channel, beyond address format? (45:23) Releases and release candidates● Bitcoin Core 31.0 (47:10) ● Core Lightning 26.04 (54:26) ● LND 0.21.0-beta.rc1 (56:35) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitcoin Core #33477 (57:55) ● Bitcoin Core #35006 (1:02:21) ● BIPs #1895 (1:04:31) ● BIPs #2142 (1:12:47) ● LDK #4555 (1:14:28) ● LND #10713 (1:16:23) ● LND #10754 (1:18:14)
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