Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Valentine Wallace to discuss Newsletter #235.
News
- Ephemeral anchors compared to `SIGHASH_GROUP` (0:58)
- Request for proof that an async payment was accepted (12:04)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- Bitcoin Core signing keys were removed from repo. What is the new process? (27:53)
- Why doesn't signet use a unique bech32 prefix? (31:36)
- Arbitrary data storage in witness? (34:07)
- Why is the locktime set at transaction level while the sequence is set at input level? (38:35)
- BLS signatures vs Schnorr (42:30)
- Why exactly would adding further divisibility to bitcoin require a hard fork? (46:56)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #26325 (55:20)
- Libsecp256k1 #1192 (57:37)
- BIPs #1383 (1:00:22)
