Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #365 Recap

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 (23:48)

Releases and release candidates

● Bitcoin Core 29.1rc1 (1:46:55)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #29954 (1:48:12)

● Bitcoin Core #33004 (1:49:13)

● LDK #3246 (1:52:37)

● LDK #3892 (1:53:35)

● LDK #3662 (1:54:31)