Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #318 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jay Beddict to discuss ⁠Newsletter #318⁠.

News

• New Bitcoin Mining Development mailing list (0:48)

Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

• Can a BIP152 compact block be sent before validation by a node that doesn't know all transactions? (15:03)
• Did Segwit (BIP141) eliminate all txid malleability issues listed in BIP62? (18:13)
• Why are the checkpoints still in the codebase in 2024? (22:35)
• Bulletproof++ as generic ZKP ala SNARKs? (26:28)
• How can OP_CAT be used to implement additional covenants? (28:13)
• Why do some bech32 bitcoin addresses contain a large number of 'q's? (32:25)
• How does a 0-conf signature bond work? (37:29)

Releases and release candidates

• Core Lightning 24.08rc2 (42:45)
• LND v0.18.3-beta.rc1 (43:13)
• BDK 1.0.0-beta.2 (43:43)
• Bitcoin Core 28.0rc1 (45:10)

Notable code and documentation changes

• LDK #3263 (48:15)
• LDK #3247 (49:10)
• BDK #1569 (50:13)