Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick and Salvatore Ingala to discuss Newsletter #351.
News
● Interactive aggregate signatures compatible with secp256k1 (0:50)
● Standardized backup for wallet descriptors (21:34)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
● Practicality of half-aggregated schnorr signatures? (17:16)
● What's the largest size OP_RETURN payload ever created? (41:17)
● Non-LN explanation of pay-to-anchor? (43:29)
● Up-to-date statistics about chain reorganizations? (48:08)
● Are Lightning channels always P2WSH? (52:33)
● Child-pays-for-parent as a defense against a double spend? (53:40)
● What values does CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY hash? (59:06)
● Why can't Lightning nodes opt to reveal channel balances for better routing efficiency? (59:32)
● Does post-quantum require hard fork or soft fork? (1:02:27)
Releases and release candidates
● LND 0.19.0-beta.rc3 (1:07:39)
Notable code and documentation changes
● Bitcoin Core #31247 (1:07:58)
● LDK #3601 (1:10:14)
