Bitcoin Optech Podcast

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

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot to discuss ⁠Newsletter #296⁠. News Revisiting consensus cleanup (0:46) Choosing new BIP editors (27:21) Releases and release c...

4 Huhti 20241h 3min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, Peter Todd, Abubakar Sadiq Ismail, David Gumberg, and Jeffrey Czyz to discuss Newsletter #295. News Disclosure of free relay attack...

28 Maalis 20241h 36min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner, Anthony Towns, and Russell O’Connor to discuss ⁠Newsletter #294⁠. News BIP324 proxy for light clients (1:20) Overview of ...

21 Maalis 20241h 11min