Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao, Robin Linus, Dave Harding, and Pavlenex to discuss Newsletter #257.
News
- Preventing coinjoin pinning with v3 transaction relay (16:08)
- Speculatively using hoped-for consensus changes (1:33)
Waiting for confirmation #7: Network Resources (24:46)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- Why do Bitcoin nodes accept blocks that have so many excluded transactions? (57:38)
- Why does everyone say that soft forks restrict the existing ruleset? (1:05:28)
- Why is the default LN channel limit set to 16777215 sats? (1:07:47)
- Why does Bitcoin Core use ancestor score instead of just ancestor fee rate to select transactions? (1:10:28)
- How does Lightning multipart payments (MPP) protocol define the amounts per part? (1:14:15)
Releases and release candidates
- BTCPay Server 1.10.3 (1:16:08)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Core Lightning #6303 (1:21:14)
- Eclair #2701 (1:22:21)
- Eclair #2696 (1:25:03)
- LND #7710 (1:26:51)
- LDK #2368 (1:27:43)
- LDK #2367 (1:33:34)
- LDK #2319 (1:34:40)
- LDK #2120 (1:37:09)
- LDK #2089 (1:38:12)
- LDK #2077 (1:39:08)
- Libsecp256k1 #1129 (1:40:37)
