Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gregory Sanders to discuss ⁠Newsletter #299⁠. News Weak blocks proof-of-concept implementation (0:56) BIP editors update (20:08) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange Where exactly is the off-by-one difficulty bug? (26:44) How is P2TR different than P2PKH using opcodes from a developer perspective? (32:10) Are replacement transactions larger in size than their predecessors and than non-RBF transactions? (34:15) Are Bitcoin signatures still vulnerable to nonce reuse? (36:59) How do miners manually add transactions to a block te ..read more

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #298⁠. News What would have happened if cluster mempool had been deployed a year ago? (0:42) Changes to services and client software Phoenix for server announced (19:26) Mercury Layer adds Lightning swaps (21:32) Stratum V2 Reference Implementation v1.0.0 released (22:46) Teleport Transactions update (25:09) Bitcoin Keeper v1.2.1 released (28:10) BIP-329 label management software (29:02) Key agent Sigbash launches (31:37) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Core 27.0 (35:19) BTCPay Server 1.13.1 (41:50) LDK 0.0.122 (42:55 ..read more

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Kulpreet Singh, Chris Stewart, Jameson Lopp, and Joost Jager to discuss ⁠Newsletter #297⁠. News DSL for experimenting with contracts (1:24) Updating BIP2 (15:50) Discussion about resetting and modifying testnet (21:00) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Implement 64 bit arithmetic op codes in the Script interpreter (37:19) Releases and release candidates HWI 3.0.0 (46:17) Core Lightning 24.02.2 (48:06) Bitcoin Core 27.0rc1 (49:41) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #29648 (50:25) Bitcoin Core #29130 (21:00 ..read more

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot to discuss ⁠Newsletter #296⁠. News Revisiting consensus cleanup (0:46) Choosing new BIP editors (27:21) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Core 26.1 (37:22) Bitcoin Core 27.0rc1 (39:09) HWI 3.0.0-rc1 (39:40) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #27307 (40:59) Bitcoin Core #29242 (43:50) Core Lightning #7094 (52:59) BDK #1351 (54:41 ..read more

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, Peter Todd, Abubakar Sadiq Ismail, David Gumberg, and Jeffrey Czyz to discuss Newsletter #295. News Disclosure of free relay attack (1:22) Transaction fee sponsorship improvements (9:55) Mempool-based feerate estimation (34:49) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange What are the risks of running a pre-SegWit node (0.12.1)? (50:30) When is OP_RETURN cheaper than OP_FALSE OP_IF? (55:51) Why does BIP-340 use secp256k1? (56:33) What criteria does Bitcoin Core use to create block templates? (58:08) How does the initial ..read more

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner, Anthony Towns, and Russell O’Connor to discuss ⁠Newsletter #294⁠. News BIP324 proxy for light clients (1:20) Overview of BTC Lisp (10:44) Changes to services and client software BitGo adds RBF support (38:59) Phoenix Wallet v2.2.0 released (40:11) Bitkey hardware signing device released (44:19) Envoy v1.6.0 released (47:49) VLS v0.11.0 released (49:22) Portal hardware signing device announced (50:54) Braiins mining pool adds Lightning support (51:44) Ledger Bitcoin App 2.2.0 released (54:14) Releases and releas ..read more

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj, Anthony Towns, and Armin Sabouri to discuss Newsletter #293. News Trustless onchain betting on potential soft forks (1:11) Overview of Chia Lisp for Bitcoiners (14:06) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Re enable `OP_CAT` (35:48) Releases and release candidates Core Lightning v24.02.1 (50:33) Bitcoin Core 26.1rc1 (51:03) Bitcoin Core 27.0rc1 (52:11) Notable code and documentation changes LND #8136 (54:58) LND #8499 (57:26) LDK #2916 (58:31 ..read more

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Josie Baker, Salvatore Ingala, and Fabian Jahr to discuss ⁠Newsletter #292⁠. News Updating BIP21 `bitcoin:` URIs (18:07) PSBTs for multiple concurrent MuSig2 signing sessions (46:30) Discussion about adding more BIP editors (58:33) GitLab backup for Bitcoin Core GitHub project (1:11) Releases and release candidates Eclair v0.10.0 (1:03:24) Bitcoin Core 26.1rc1 (1:05:18) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #29412 (1:06:53) Eclair #2829 (1:17:29) LND #8378 (1:19:06) BIPs #1421 (1:20:28 ..read more

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Richard Myers, Rijndael, Luke Dashjr, and Jason Hughes to discuss Newsletter #291. News Trustless contract for miner feerate futures (1:31) Coin selection for liquidity providers (7:18) Simple vault prototype using `OP_CAT` (21:15) Sending and receiving ecash using LN and ZKCPs (44:44) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange Why can't nodes have the relay option to disallow certain transaction types? (49:41) What is the circular dependency in signing a chain of unconfirmed transactions? (53:28) How does Ocean’s TIDES payout sche ..read more

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, callebtc, Chris Stewart, Fabian Jahr, and Pierre Corbin to discuss ⁠Newsletter #290⁠. News DNS-based human-readable Bitcoin payment instructions (1:41) Thinking about mempool incentive compatibility (9:50) Cashu and other ecash system design discussion (29:15) Continued discussion about 64-bit arithmetic and `OP_INOUT_AMOUNT` opcode (39:52) Improved reproducible ASMap creation process (49:17) Changes to services and client software Multiparty coordination protocol NWC announced (1:11:00) Mutiny Wallet v0.5.7 released (1:1 ..read more