Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #244 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding to discuss Newsletter #244.

News

• Preventing stranded capital with multiparty channels and channel factories (1:00)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• Why isn’t the taproot deployment buried in Bitcoin Core? (28:06)
• What restrictions does the version field in the block header have? (32:23)
• What is the relation between transaction data and ids? (39:04)
• Can I request tx messages from other peers? (43:33)
• Eltoo: Does the relative locktime on the first UTXO set the lifetime of the channel? (47:34)

Releases and release candidates

• Rust Bitcoin 0.30.0 (52:23)
• LND v0.16.0-beta.rc5 (53:43)
• BDK 1.0.0-alpha.0 (54:16)

Notable code and documentation changes

• Bitcoin Core #27278 (54:45)
• Bitcoin Core #26531 (1:00:26)
• Core Lightning #5898 (1:03:23)
• Core Lightning #5986 (1:05:21)
• Eclair #2616 (1:07:43)
• LDK #2024 (1:10:34)
• Rust Bitcoin #1737 (1:12:43)
• BTCPay Server #4608 (1:13:03)
• BIPs #1425 (1:15:43)
• Bitcoin Inquisition #22 (1:16:51)