Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Bastien Teinturier and Rodolfo Novak to discuss Newsletter #281.
News
- Discussion about griefing liquidity ads (0:46)
Changes to services and client software
- Stratum v2 mining pool launches (15:43)
- Bitcoin network simulation tool warnet announced (16:31)
- Payjoin client for Bitcoin Core released (17:30)
- Call for community block arrival timestamps (18:44)
- Envoy 1.4 released (21:41)
- BBQr encoding scheme announced (22:09)
- Zeus v0.8.0 released (22:45)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- What are all the rules related to CPFP fee bumping? (25:16)
- How is the total number of RBF replaced transactions calculated? (29:41)
- What types of RBF exist and which one does Bitcoin Core support and use by default? (31:37)
- What is the Block 1,983,702 Problem? (34:48)
- What are hash functions used for in bitcoin? (45:12)
Releases and release candidates
Notable code and documentation changes
- LDK #2685 (52:22)
- Libsecp256k1 #1446 (53:04)
- BTCPay Server #5389 (53:36)
- BTCPay Server #5490 (59:54)
