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Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Join Bitcoin Optech as we discuss Bitcoin and Lightning technology each week and review our newsletters. https://bitcoinops.org/

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00:52:42

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #337 Recap

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2025/01/21

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by vnprc to discuss ⁠⁠Newsletter #337⁠⁠.News - Continued discussion about rewarding pool miners with tradeable ecash shares (0:35) - Offchain DLCs (38:32) Releases and release candidates - LDK v0.1 (39:34) Notable code and documentation changes - Eclair #2936 (41:32) - Rust Bitcoin #3792 (42:46) - BDK #1789 (43:42) - BIPs #1687 (46:39) - BIPs #1396 (50:15)

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00:47:06

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #336 Recap

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2025/01/14

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Abubakar Sadiq Ismail, Gregory Sanders, and Daniel Roberts to discuss ⁠Newsletter #336⁠.News Investigating mining pool behavior before fixing a Bitcoin Core bug (1:07) Contract-level relative timelocks (15:04) Multiparty LN-Symmetry variant with penalties for limiting published updates (29:06) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Core 28.1 (39:54) BDK 0.30.1 (40:45) LDK v0.1.0-beta1 (42:01) Notable code and documentation

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01:37:27

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #335 Recap

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2025/01/07

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Yuval Kogman, Jeremy Rubin, and Steve Myers to discuss ⁠Newsletter #335⁠.News Deanonymization attacks against centralized coinjoin (1:39) Updated ChillDKG draft (14:09) Changing consensus CTV enhancement opcodes (18:41) Adjusting difficulty beyond 256 bits (31:52) Transitory soft forks for cleanup soft forks (33:44) Quantum computer upgrade path (48:09) Consensus cleanup timewarp grace period (56:10) Releases and release

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01:59:40

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review...

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2024/12/23

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, Niklas Gögge, Gloria Zhao, and Rearden to discuss ⁠Newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special⁠.January Fee-dependent timelocks (16:18) Optimized contract protocol exits (17:20) LN-Symmetry proof-of-concept implementation (18:22) February Replace by feerate (22:32) Human-readable payment instructions (27:25) Improved ASMap generation (28:09) LN dual funding (32:33) Trustless betting on future feerates

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01:34:25

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #333 Recap

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2024/12/18

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, /dev/fd0, and Gloria Zhao to discuss Newsletter #333.News Vulnerability allowing theft from LN channels with miner assistance (1:11) Deanonymization vulnerability affecting Wasabi and related software (12:00) Insights into channel depletion (18:12) Poll of opinions about covenant proposals (31:14) Incentive-based pseudo-covenants (41:49) Bitcoin Core developer meeting summaries (46:45) Bitcoin Core PR Review

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00:58:18

Bitcoin Optech: Channel Depletion Research Deep Dive...

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2024/12/12

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt and Christian Decker to discuss Pickhardt’s ⁠Lightning Network channel depletion research⁠.Summary of Pickhardt's research (1:01) Why look at wealth distributions? (5:45) What can be learned from depletion? (11:38) Circular rebalancing (13:33) What determines where the spanning tree is? (15:28) Mitigating depletion (20:14) Adjacent channels and their impact (26:39) Multiparty channels, channel factories, and Ark (29:52)

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00:58:25

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #332 Recap

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2024/12/10

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Riard and Antoine Poinsot to discuss ⁠Newsletter #332⁠. News Transaction censorship vulnerability (0:55) Continued discussion about consensus cleanup soft fork proposal (19:20) Releases and release candidates Eclair v0.11.0 (46:45) LDK v0.0.125 (47:26) Core Lightning 24.11rc3 (47:59) LND 0.18.4-beta.rc1 (48:21) Bitcoin Core 28.1RC1 (48:34) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #30708 (49:15) Core

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01:28:39

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #331 Recap

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2024/12/09

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns to discuss ⁠Newsletter #331⁠. News Lisp dialect for Bitcoin scripting (0:48) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange How does ColliderScript improve Bitcoin and what features does it enable? (43:24) Why do standardness rules limit transaction weight? (48:10) Is the scriptSig spending an PayToAnchor output expected to always be empty? (56:16) What happens to the unused P2A outputs? (57:13) Why doesn't Bitcoin's

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01:32:21

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #330 Recap

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2024/11/26

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj, Vojtěch Strnad, Moonsettler, Brandon Black, Ethan Heilman, and Dusty Daemon to discuss Newsletter #330.

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00:13:42

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #329 Recap

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2024/11/22

Mark “Murch” Erhardt discusses Newsletter #329.News MAD-based offchain payment resolution (OPR) protocol (0:21) Papers about IP-layer censorship of LN payments (3:10) Releases and release candidates BTCPay Server 2.0.3 (6:21) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #30592 (8:29) Bitcoin Core #30930 (9:46) LDK #3283 (11:35) LND #7762 (12:31)

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00:20:45

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #328 Recap

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2024/11/22

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gregory Sanders discuss Newsletter #328. News Disclosure of a vulnerability affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 25.1 (0:53) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Ephemeral Dust (6:54) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Core 27.2 (14:55) Libsecp256k1 0.6.0 (15:40) Notable code and documentation changes LDK #3360 (17:40) LDK #3207 (18:45)

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00:28:43

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #327 Recap

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2024/11/05

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andrew Toth to discuss ⁠Newsletter #327⁠.News Timeout tree channel factories (0:50) Draft BIP for DLEQ proofs (10:53) Releases and release candidates BTCPay Server 2.0.0 (20:02) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #31130 (22:56) LDK #3007 (25:14) BIPs #1676 (27:15)

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00:53:03

Bitcoin Optech: SuperScalar Deep Dive Podcast

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2024/10/31

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj to discuss his SuperScalar proposal.Why a deep dive? (0:40) Proposal overview (1:58) Importance of reallocating liquidity (4:13) What about overloading channels with liquidity from the start? (9:42) Discussion of multi-LSP vs single LSP approaches (13:05) Ensuring unilateral exit is possible (15:22) Malicious users forcing unilateral closes (20:21) Decker–Wattenhofer channels vs John Law's tunable penalties (27:11)

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00:57:13

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #326 Recap

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2024/10/29

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Elle Mouton and Andrew Toth to discuss Newsletter #326. News Updates to the version 1.75 channel announcements proposal (1:36) Draft BIP for sending silent payments with PSBTs (16:28) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange Duplicate blocks in blk*.dat files? (30:07) How was the structure of pay-to-anchor decided? (32:45) What are the benefits of decoy packets in BIP324? (36:38) Why is the opcode limit 201? (39:20) Will

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01:22:24

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #325 Recap

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2024/10/22

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Olaoluwa Osuntokun and Steven Roose to discuss ⁠Newsletter #325⁠. News LN Summit 2024 notes (0:51) Changes to services and client software Coinbase adds taproot send support (49:03) Dana wallet released (51:53) Kyoto BIP157/158 light client released (53:20) DLC Markets launches on mainnet (1:01:39) Ashigaru wallet announced (1:02:30) DATUM protocol announced (1:03:10) Bark Ark implementation announced (1:03:55) Phoenix

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00:45:13

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #324 Recap

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2024/10/21

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot to discuss ⁠Newsletter #324⁠. News Disclosure of vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 25.0 (1:09) CVE-2024-38365 btcd consensus failure (11:22) Guide for wallets employing Bitcoin Core 28.0 (23:27) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Add getorphantxs (27:43) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Inquisition 28.0 (26:35) BDK 1.0.0-beta.5 (31:39) Notable code and documentation changes Core

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00:55:57

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #323 Recap

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2024/10/08

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier to discuss ⁠Newsletter #323⁠. News Impending btcd security disclosure (0:54) Releases and release candidates Bitcoin Core 28.0 (3:11) BDK 1.0.0-beta.5 (15:13) Notable code and documentation changes Bitcoin Core #30043 (20:47) Bitcoin Core #30510 (22:15) Core Lightning #7644 (25:06) Eclair #2848 (26:28) Eclair #2860 (30:57) Eclair #2861 (29:17) Eclair #2875 (31:19) LDK #3303 (40:24) BDK #1616

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01:15:58

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #322 Recap

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2024/10/01

Jon Atack and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gloria Zhao and Jonas Nick to discuss ⁠Newsletter #322⁠.News Disclosure of vulnerability affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 24.0.1 (2:01) Hybrid jamming mitigation testing and changes (17:51) Shielded client-side validation (CSV) (25:28) Draft of updated BIP process (48:47) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange What specific verifications are done on a fresh Bitcoin TX and in what order? (54:31) Why is my bitcoin directory larger

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01:02:22

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #321 Recap

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2024/09/24

Rijndael and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andy Schroder and Virtu to discuss ⁠Newsletter #321⁠.News Proving UTXO set inclusion in zero knowledge (1:47) LN offline payments (11:32) DNS seeding for non-IP addresses (30:00) Changes to services and client software Strike adds BOLT12 support (42:15) BitBox02 adds silent payment support (43:29) The Mempool Open Source Project v3.0.0 released (45:22) ZEUS v0.9.0 released (46:39) Live Wallet adds consolidation support (47:04) Bisq

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01:03:55

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #320 Recap

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2024/09/18

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bruno Garcia, Shehzan Maredia, Gloria Zhao, Fabian Jahr, and Gregory Sanders to discuss ⁠Newsletter #320⁠. News Mutation testing for Bitcoin Core (1:39) DLC-based loan contract execution (9:15) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Testing Bitcoin Core 28.0 Release Candidates (21:08) Releases and release candidates LND v0.18.3-beta (51:33) BDK 1.0.0-beta.2 (53:05) Bitcoin Core 28.0rc1 (53:14) Notable code and documentation changes

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