Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #295 Recap
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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 initialblockdownload field in the getblockchaininfo RPC work? (1:04:45)
Releases and release candidates
- Bitcoin Core 26.1rc2 (1:07:34)
- Bitcoin Core 27.0rc1 (1:07:55)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #28950 (1:17:13)
- LND #8418 (1:19:07)
- LDK #2756 (1:23:44)
- LDK #2935 (1:25:55)
- LDK #2419 (1:27:39)
- Rust Bitcoin #2549 (1:32:54)
- BTCPay Server #5852 (1:33:36)
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