Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #378.News● CPU DoS from unconfirmed transaction processing (1:00) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange● Why was -datacarriersize redefined ...

4 Nov 20251h 2min

Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Mike Schmidt are joined by Abubakar Sadiq Ismail and Carla Kirk-Cohen to discuss ⁠Newsletter #377⁠.News● Detecting block template feerate increases using cluster mempool (1:0...

29 Okt 202555min

Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Mike Schmidt are joined by Francesco Madonna and supertestnet to discuss Newsletter #376.News● Continued discussion of block template sharing (17:30) ● B-SSL a Secure Bitcoin...

28 Okt 202538min

Gustavo Flores Echaiz and Mike Schmidt are joined by Sindura Saraswathi, ZmnSCPxj, and Eugene Siegel to discuss ⁠Newsletter #375⁠.News● Optimal Threshold Signatures (1:56) ● Flattening certain nested ...

17 Okt 20251h 2min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Gustavo Flores Echaiz to discuss Newsletter #374.Changing consensus● Draft BIPs for Script Restoration (0:40) Releases and release candidates● Bitco...

7 Okt 202546min

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