Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Setor Blagogee, Oghenovo Usiwoma, Pierre Rochard, and Alex Bosworth to discuss Newsletter #305.
News
- Light client protocol for silent payments (1:52)
- Raw taproot descriptors (14:56)
- Should overlapping soft fork proposals be considered mutually exclusive? (28:02)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- What's the smallest possible coinbase transaction / block size? (1:13:32)
- Understanding Script's number encoding, CScriptNum (1:14:18)
- Is there a way to make a BTC wallet address public but hide how many BTC it contains? (1:16:04)
- Testing increased feerates in regtest (1:18:05)
- Why is my P2P_V2 peer connected over a v1 connection? (1:20:41)
- Does a P2PKH transaction send to the hash of the uncompressed key or the compressed key? (1:21:58)
- What are different ways to broadcast a block to the Bitcoin network? (1:23:20)
Releases and release candidates
- LND v0.18.0-beta (43:23)
- Core Lightning 24.05rc2 (1:12:21)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #29612 (1:27:11)
- Bitcoin Core #27064 (1:29:59)
- Bitcoin Core #29873 (1:30:55)
- Bitcoin Core #30062 (1:34:15)
- Bitcoin Core #26606 (1:38:17)
- BOLTs #1092 (1:41:41)
