Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #248 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Will Clark to discuss Newsletter #248.

News

• Proposed removal of BIP35 `mempool` P2P message (0:41)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• How many sigops are in the invalid block 783426? (15:27)
• How would an adversary increase the required fee to replace a transaction by up to 500 times? (19:10)
• Best Practices with Multiple CPFPs & CPFP + RBF? (22:51)

Releases and release candidates

• LDK 0.0.115 (25:01)
• LND v0.16.1-beta (25:48)
• Core Lightning 23.05rc1 (27:01)

Notable code and documentation changes

• LND #7564 (27:35)
• LND #6903 (28:10)
• LDK #2198 (29:40)
• Bitcoin Inquisition #23 (32:37)