Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Corallo, Brandon Black, Gregory Sanders, and James O’Beirne to discuss Newsletter #266.
News
- Disclosure of past LN vulnerability related to fake funding (21:11)
- Covenant mashup using `TXHASH` and `CSFS` (1:30)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- Is there an economic incentive to switch from P2WPKH to P2TR? (34:44)
- What is the BIP324 encrypted packet structure? (37:31)
- What is the false positive rate for compact block filters? (39:23)
- What opcodes are part of the MATT proposal? (40:27)
- Is there a well defined last Bitcoin block? (41:40)
- Why are miners setting the locktime in coinbase transactions? (46:10)
- Why doesn't Bitcoin Core use auxiliary randomness when performing Schnorr signatures? (47:40)
Releases and release candidates
- Core Lightning 23.08 (49:21)
- LND v0.17.0-beta.rc1 (50:24)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #27460 (51:16)
- LDK #2248 (53:43)
- LDK #2337 (55:00)
- LDK #2411 (1:00:16)
- LDK #2507 (1:04:46)
- LDK #2478 (1:07:22)
- LND #7904 (1:09:07)
