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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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01:26:56

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #372 Recap

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2025/09/23

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj and Constantine Doumanidis to discuss Newsletter #372.News● LSP-funded redundant overpayments (16:24) ● Partitioning and eclipse attacks using BGP interception (1:02) Changes to services and client software● Zero-knowledge proof of reserve tool (13:49) ● Alternative submarine swap protocol proof of concept (15:12) Releases and release candidates● Bitcoin Core 30.0rc1 (39:14) ● BDK Chain 0.23.2 (1:16:28) Notable code and documentation

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01:00:50

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #371 Recap

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2025/09/16

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick and Bastien Teinturier to discuss Newsletter #370.News● Provable Cryptography Workbook (0:48) Releases and release candidates● Bitcoin Core 29.1 (10:48) ● Eclair v0.13.0 (11:17) ● Bitcoin Core 30.0rc1 (25:27) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitcoin Core #30469 (33:18) ● Eclair #3163 (33:18) ● Eclair #2308 (40:27) ● Eclair #3021 (45:18) ● Eclair #3142 (48:08) ● LDK #4053 (50:30) ● LDK #3886 (58:12)

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01:05:57

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #370 Recap

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2025/09/10

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Russell O’Connor, Olaoluwa Osuntokun, and Jeremy Rubin to discuss Newsletter #370.Changing consensus● Details about the design of Simplicity (37:56) ● Draft BIP for adding elliptic curve operations to tapscript (1:52) ● Draft BIP for OP_TWEAKADD (19:23) Releases and release candidates● Core Lightning v25.09 (59:40) ● Bitcoin Core 29.1rc2 (1:00:24) Notable code and documentation changes● LDK #3726 (1:00:55) ● LDK #4019 (1:02:24) ● LND #9455

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01:07:15

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #368 Recap

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2025/09/08

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #368.News● Draft BIP for block template sharing (0:30) ● Trusted delegation of script evaluation (28:07) Changes to services and client software● ZEUS v0.11.3 released (33:07) ● Rust Utreexo resources (33:25) ● Peer-observer tooling and call to action (34:11) ● Bitcoin Core Kernel-based node announced (37:22) ● SimplicityHL released (38:23) ● LSP plugin for BTCPay Server (39:17) ● Proto mining hardware and software announced (39:42) ● Oracle

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01:08:11

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #369 Recap

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2025/09/02

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bruno Garcia and Liam Eagen to discuss Newsletter #369.News● Update on differential fuzzing of Bitcoin and LN implementations (24:56) ● Garbled locks for accountable computing contracts (0:58) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange● Is it possible to recover a private key from an aggregate public key under strong assumptions? (39:45) ● Are all taproot addresses vulnerable to quantum computing? (41:24) ● Why cant we set the chainstate

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00:23:38

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #367 Recap

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2025/08/19

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #367⁠.Releases and release candidates● LND v0.19.3-beta.rc1 (0:19) ● Bitcoin Core 29.1rc1 (0:46) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitcoin Core #33050 (2:38) ● Bitcoin Core #32473 (11:04)● Bitcoin Core #33077 (17:57) ● Core Lightning #8389 (22:03)

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01:43:44

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #366 Recap

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2025/08/13

Gloria Zhao and Mike Schmidt are joined by Tadge Dryja and Anthony Towns to discuss ⁠Newsletter #366⁠.News● Draft BIPs proposed for Utreexo (1:03) ● Continued discussion about lowering the minimum relay feerate (23:43) ● Peer block template sharing to mitigate problems with divergent mempool policies (52:27) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club● Add exportwatchonlywallet RPC to export a watchonly version of a wallet (1:11:41)Optech recommends (1:15:50) Releases and release candidates● LND v0.19.3-beta.rc1

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01:56:16

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #365 Recap

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2025/08/06

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by David Gumberg, Lauren Shareshian, Jameson Lopp, Steven Roose, and Tim Ruffing to discuss Newsletter #365.News● Testing compact block prefilling (1:13:00) ● Mempool-based fee estimation library (1:33:53) Changing consensus● Migration from quantum-vulnerable outputs (49:17) ● Taproot-native `OP_TEMPLATEHASH` proposal (1:13) ● Proposal to allow longer relative timelocks (12:57) ● Security against quantum computers with taproot as a commitment scheme

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01:25:07

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #364 Recap

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2025/07/31

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse and Jesse Posner to discuss ⁠Newsletter #364⁠.News● LND gossip filter DoS vulnerability (0:53) ● Chain code withholding for multisig scripts (15:16) ● Research indicates common Bitcoin primitives are compatible with quantum-resistant signature algorithms (38:46) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange● How does Bitcoin Core handle reorgs larger than 10 blocks? (57:36) ● Advantages of a signing device over an encrypted drive

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00:57:37

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #363 Recap

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2025/07/22

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Davidson Souza to discuss ⁠Newsletter #363⁠.Changes to services and client software● Floresta v0.8.0 released (0:45) ● RGB v0.12 announced (20:38) ● FROST signing device available (25:34) ● Gemini adds taproot support (29:44) ● Electrum 4.6.0 released (38:14) Releases and release candidates● LND v0.19.2-beta (38:51) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitcoin Core #32604 (39:38) ● Bitcoin Core #32618 (40:55) ● Bitcoin Core #31553 (43:03) ● Core

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00:56:26

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #362 Recap

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2025/07/16

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Josh Doman and Gloria Zhao to discuss ⁠Newsletter #362⁠.News● Compressed descriptors (0:34) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club● Improve TxOrphanage denial of service bounds (9:14) Releases and release candidates● LND v0.19.2-beta.rc2 (46:22) Notable code and documentation changes● Core Lightning #8377 (47:17) ● BDK #1957 (50:41) ● BIPs #1888 (51:18)

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02:19:37

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #361 Recap

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2025/07/10

Sanket Kanjalkar, Jonas Nick, Tadge Dryja, Steven Roose, and Brandon Black join Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt to discuss Newsletter #361.News● Separating onion message relay from HTLC relay (2:06) Changing consensus● CTV+CSFS advantages for PTLCs (5:45) ● Vault output script descriptor (15:21) ● Continued discussion about CTV+CSFS advantages for BitVM (22:57) ● Open letter about CTV and CSFS (27:59) ● OP_CAT enables Winternitz signatures (1:12:27) ● Commit/reveal function for post-quantum

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01:08:07

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #360 Recap

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2025/07/01

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Daniela Brozzoni and Naiyoma to discuss ⁠Newsletter #360⁠.News● Fingerprinting nodes using `addr` messages (1:00) ● Does any software use `H` in descriptors? (29:36) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange● Is there any way to block Bitcoin Knots nodes as my peers? (33:42) ● What does OP_CAT do with integers? (42:00) ● Async Block Relaying With Compact Block Relay (BIP152) (43:03) ● Why is attacker revenue in selfish mining disproportional to

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01:18:04

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #359 Recap

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2025/06/24

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bryan Bishop, Robin Linus, and Rene Pickhardt to discuss ⁠Newsletter #359⁠.News● Proposal to restrict access to Bitcoin Core Project discussion (1:11) ● Improvements to BitVM-style contracts (21:17) ● Channel rebalancing research (41:57) Changes to services and client software● Cove v1.0.0 released (1:03:58) ● Liana v11.0 released (1:04:59) ● Stratum v2 STARK proof demo (1:06:48) ● Breez SDK adds BOLT12 and BIP353 (1:08:41) Releases and release

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01:23:13

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #358 Recap

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2025/06/17

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot, Peter Todd, Josh Doman, and TheCharlatan to discuss ⁠Newsletter #358⁠.News● Calculating the selfish mining danger threshold (0:52) ● Relay censorship resistance through top mempool set reconciliation (59:26) ● Updating BIP390 to allow duplicate participant keys in `musig()` expressions (55:50) ● Descriptor encryption library (31:35) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club● Separate UTXO set access from validation functions (43:05) Releases and

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01:36:52

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #357 Recap

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2025/06/12

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jose SK, Clara Shikhelman, Vojtěch Strnad, Robin Linus, and Dan Gould to discuss ⁠Newsletter #357⁠.News● Syncing full nodes without witnesses (1:30) Changing consensus● Quantum computing report (17:38) ● Transaction weight limit with exception to prevent confiscation (41:49) ● Removing outputs from the UTXO set based on value and time (53:47) Releases and release candidates● Core Lightning 25.05rc1 (1:07:45) ● LND 0.19.1-beta.rc1 (1:08:02) Notable

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01:12:04

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #356 Recap

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2025/06/03

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Carla Kirk-Cohen, Joost Jager, and Elias Rohrer to discuss Newsletter #356.News● Do attributable failures reduce LN privacy? (0:57) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange● Which transactions get into blockreconstructionextratxn? (40:40) ● Why would anyone use OP_RETURN over inscriptions, aside from fees? (46:47) ● Why is my Bitcoin node not receiving incoming connections? (48:25) ● How do I configure my node to filter out transactions larger

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01:07:00

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #355 Recap

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2025/06/02

Dave Harding is joined by Alex Myers and Rodolfo Novak to discuss Newsletter #355.Changes to services and client software● Cake Wallet added payjoin v2 support (2:38) ● Sparrow adds pay-to-anchor features (6:37) ● Safe Wallet 1.3.0 released (8:00) ● COLDCARD Q v1.3.2 released (9:15) ● Transaction batching using payjoin (19:07) ● JoinMarket Fidelity Bond Simulator (20:46) ● Bitcoin opcodes documented (26:39) ● Bitkey code open sourced (27:59) Releases and release candidates● LND 0.19.0-beta (33:43) ●

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01:23:10

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #354 Recap

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2025/05/21

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Eugene Siegel, Chris Stewart, Bram Cohen, and Robin Linus to discuss Newsletter #353.News● Vulnerability disclosure affecting old versions of Bitcoin Core (1:17) Changing consensus● Proposed BIP for 64-bit arithmetic in Script (5:28) ● Proposed opcodes for enabling recursive covenants through quines (23:11) ● Description of benefits to BitVM from `OP_CTV` and `OP_CSFS` (36:39) Releases and release candidates● LND 0.19.0-beta.rc4 (1:07:28) Notable

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00:57:44

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #353 Recap

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2025/05/15

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ruben Somsen, Salvatore Ingala, and Stéphan Vuylsteke to discuss Newsletter #353.News● BIP30 consensus failure vulnerability (0:52) ● Avoiding BIP32 path reuse (28:33) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club● Add bitcoin wrapper executable (16:38) Releases and release candidates● LND 0.19.0-beta.rc4 (45:01) Notable code and documentation changes● Core Lightning #8227 (45:18) ● Core Lightning #8162 (46:43) ● Core Lightning #8166 (47:44) ● Core Lightning #8237

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