Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #253 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Poinsot, Peter Todd, Josh Doman, and TheCharlatan to discuss ⁠Newsletter #358⁠.News● Calculating the selfish mining danger threshold (0:52) ...

17 Jun 20251h 23min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jose SK, Clara Shikhelman, Vojtěch Strnad, Robin Linus, and Dan Gould to discuss ⁠Newsletter #357⁠.News● Syncing full nodes without witnesses (1:30)...

12 Jun 20251h 36min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Carla Kirk-Cohen, Joost Jager, and Elias Rohrer to discuss Newsletter #356.News● Do attributable failures reduce LN privacy? (0:57) Selected Q&A fro...

3 Jun 20251h 12min

Dave Harding is joined by Alex Myers and Rodolfo Novak to discuss Newsletter #355.Changes to services and client software● Cake Wallet added payjoin v2 support (2:38) ● Sparrow adds pay-to-anchor feat...

2 Jun 20251h 7min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Eugene Siegel, Chris Stewart, Bram Cohen, and Robin Linus to discuss Newsletter #353.News● Vulnerability disclosure affecting old versions of Bitcoi...

21 Mai 20251h 23min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ruben Somsen, Salvatore Ingala, and Stéphan Vuylsteke to discuss Newsletter #353.News● BIP30 consensus failure vulnerability (0:52) ● Avoiding BIP32...

15 Mai 202557min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Sjors Provoost discuss Newsletter #352.News● Comparison of cluster linearization techniques (0:41) ● Increasing or removing Bitcoin Core's `OP_RETURN` size limit (6:46) Releas...

9 Mai 20251h 13min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick and Salvatore Ingala to discuss Newsletter #351.News● Interactive aggregate signatures compatible with secp256k1 (0:50) ● Standardized ba...

30 Apr 20251h 11min