Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #345 Recap

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sindura Saraswathi, Christian Kümmerle, and Stéphan Vuylsteke to discuss Newsletter #345.

News

● P2P traffic analysis (1:35)

● Research into single-path LN pathfinding (6:45)

● Probabilistic payments using different hash functions as an xor function (21:17)

Bitcoin Core PR Review Club

● Stricter internal handling of invalid blocks (26:12)

Releases and release candidates

● Eclair v0.12.0 (37:49)

Notable code and documentation changes

● Bitcoin Core #31407 (38:52)

● Eclair #3027 (43:22)

● Eclair #3007 (44:17)

● Eclair #2976 (44:57)

● LDK #3608 (47:17)

● LDK #3624 (48:12)

● LDK #3016 (50:28)

● LDK #3629 (52:15)

● BDK #1838 (53:06)