Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #211 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andrew Toth, Antoine Poinsot, and Tony Klausing to discuss ⁠Newsletter #304⁠. News Upgrading existing LN channels (1:27) Challenges in rewarding...

27 Touko 20241h 23min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Adam Gibson to discuss ⁠Newsletter #303⁠. News Anonymous usage tokens (1:58) BIP39 seed phrase splitting (31:48) Alternative to BitVM (38:05)...

21 Touko 202455min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Dave Harding are joined by Calvin Kim to discuss ⁠Newsletter #302⁠. News Release of utreexod beta (0:56) BIP119 extensions for smaller hashes and arbitrary data commitment...

16 Touko 202447min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ethan Heilman and Gloria Zhao to discuss ⁠Newsletter #301⁠. News Consensus-enforced lamport signatures on top of ECDSA signatures (1:00) Bitcoin...

9 Touko 20241h

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Tadge Dryja to discuss ⁠Newsletter #300⁠. News CTV-like exploding keys proposal (0:59) Analyzing a contract protocol with Alloy (13:07) Arres...

2 Touko 20241h 5min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gregory Sanders to discuss ⁠Newsletter #299⁠. News Weak blocks proof-of-concept implementation (0:56) BIP editors update (20:08) Selected Q&A...

25 Huhti 202449min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #298⁠. News What would have happened if cluster mempool had been deployed a year ago? (0:42) Changes to services and client software Pho...

19 Huhti 202454min

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Kulpreet Singh, Chris Stewart, Jameson Lopp, and Joost Jager to discuss ⁠Newsletter #297⁠. News DSL for experimenting with contracts (1:24) Updating BI...

15 Huhti 20241h 18min