Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Burak Keceli, Dave Harding, and Joost Jager to discuss Newsletter #253.
News
- Proposal for a managed joinpool protocol (1:46)
- Transaction relay over Nostr (40:38)
Waiting for confirmation #3: Bidding for block space (1:00:02)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- Testing pruning logic with bitcoind (1:12:38)
- What's the governing motivation for the descendent size limit? (1:13:19)
- How does it contribute to the Bitcoin network when I run a node with a bigger than default mempool? (1:16:48)
- What is the maximum number of inputs/outputs a transaction can have? (1:21:18)
- Can 2-of-3 multisig funds be recovered without one of the xpubs? (1:23:50)
Releases and release candidates
- Bitcoin Core 25.0 (1:27:05)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #27469 (1:30:27)
- Bitcoin Core #27626 (1:32:40)
- Bitcoin Core #25796 (1:35:24)
- Eclair #2668 (1:37:17)
- Eclair #2666 (1:39:20)
- BTCPay Server 97e7e (1:41:56)
- BIPs #1446 (1:43:15)
