Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Misha Komarov, Erik De Smedt, and arbedout to discuss ⁠Newsletter #393⁠.News● Recent OP_RETURN output statistics (45:54) ● B...

24 Feb 1h 31min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Sebastian Falbesoner and Oleksandr Kurbatov to discuss ⁠Newsletter #392⁠.News● Proposal to limit the number of per-group silent payment rec...

24 Feb 1h 32min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Toby Sharp, Chris Hyunhum Cho, Jonas Nick, and Antoine Poinsot to discuss ⁠Newsletter #391⁠.News● A constant-time paralleliz...

11 Feb 2h 10min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gustavo Flores Echaiz are joined by Liam Eagen to discuss Newsletter #390.News● Argo: a garbled-circuits scheme with more efficient off-chain computation (0:48) ● LN-Symmetry ...

4 Feb 1h 3min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt to discuss ⁠Newsletter #389⁠.News● A mathematical theory of payment channel networks (0:31) Changes to services and client software● ...

27 Jan 53min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bruno Garcia to discuss ⁠Newsletter #388⁠.News● An overview of incremental mutation testing in Bitcoin Core (0:43) ● BIP pro...

20 Jan 58min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt and Craig Raw to discuss ⁠Newsletter #387⁠.News● Bitcoin Core wallet migration bug (0:55) ● Using Ark as a ch...

14 Jan 1h 24min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns and Mikhail Kudinov to discuss ⁠Newsletter #386⁠.News● Building a vault using blinded co-signers (1:04:09) ● P...

6 Jan 2h 2min