Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #261 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse, Daniela Brozzoni, and Gustavo Flores Echaiz to discuss Newsletter #373.News● Eclair vulnerability (18:50) ● Research into feerate se...

1 Okt 20251h 44min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj and Constantine Doumanidis to discuss Newsletter #372.News● LSP-funded redundant overpayments (16:24) ● Partitioning and eclipse attacks us...

23 Sep 20251h 26min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jonas Nick and Bastien Teinturier to discuss Newsletter #370.News● Provable Cryptography Workbook (0:48) Releases and release candidates● Bitcoin Co...

16 Sep 20251h

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Russell O’Connor, Olaoluwa Osuntokun, and Jeremy Rubin to discuss Newsletter #370.Changing consensus● Details about the design of Simplicity (37:56)...

10 Sep 20251h 5min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #368.News● Draft BIP for block template sharing (0:30) ● Trusted delegation of script evaluation (28:07) Changes to services and client softwar...

8 Sep 20251h 7min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bruno Garcia and Liam Eagen to discuss Newsletter #369.News● Update on differential fuzzing of Bitcoin and LN implementations (24:56) ● Garbled lock...

2 Sep 20251h 8min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #367⁠.Releases and release candidates● LND v0.19.3-beta.rc1 (0:19) ● Bitcoin Core 29.1rc1 (0:46) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitco...

19 Aug 202523min

Gloria Zhao and Mike Schmidt are joined by Tadge Dryja and Anthony Towns to discuss ⁠Newsletter #366⁠.News● Draft BIPs proposed for Utreexo (1:03) ● Continued discussion about lowering the minimum rel...

13 Aug 20251h 43min