Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jay Beddict to discuss Newsletter #318.
News
- New Bitcoin Mining Development mailing list (0:48)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- Can a BIP152 compact block be sent before validation by a node that doesn't know all transactions? (15:03)
- Did Segwit (BIP141) eliminate all txid malleability issues listed in BIP62? (18:13)
- Why are the checkpoints still in the codebase in 2024? (22:35)
- Bulletproof++ as generic ZKP ala SNARKs? (26:28)
- How can OP_CAT be used to implement additional covenants? (28:13)
- Why do some bech32 bitcoin addresses contain a large number of 'q's? (32:25)
- How does a 0-conf signature bond work? (37:29)
Releases and release candidates
- Core Lightning 24.08rc2 (42:45)
- LND v0.18.3-beta.rc1 (43:13)
- BDK 1.0.0-beta.2 (43:43)
- Bitcoin Core 28.0rc1 (45:10)
Notable code and documentation changes
- LDK #3263 (48:15)
- LDK #3247 (49:10)
- BDK #1569 (50:13)
