Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt to discuss Newsletter #309.
News
- Estimating the likelihood that an LN payment is feasible (1:04)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- How is the progress of Initial Block Download (IBD) calculated? (31:25)
- What is `progress increase per hour` during synchronization? (33:50)
- Should an even Y coordinate be enforced after every key-tweak operation, or only at the end? (34:45)
- Signet mobile phone wallets? (37:28)
- What block had the most transaction fees? Why? (39:01)
- bitcoin-cli listtransactions fee amount is way off, why? (41:48)
- Did uncompressed public keys use the `04` prefix before compressed public keys were used? (44:57)
- What happens if an HTLC's value is below the dust limit? (46:34)
- How does subtractfeefrom work? (47:11)
- What's the difference between the 3 index directories blocks/index/, bitcoin/indexes and chainstate? (51:19)
Releases and release candidates
- LND v0.18.1-beta (52:18)
- Bitcoin Core 26.2rc1 (53:02)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #29575 (53:29)
- Bitcoin Core #28984 (56:38)
- Core Lightning #7388 (1:00:28)
- LND #8734 (1:03:24)
- LDK #3127 (1:03:59)
- Rust Bitcoin #2794 (1:05:39)
- BDK #1395 (1:07:05)
- BIPs #1620 (1:08:55)
- BOLTs #869 (1:11:57)
