Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Josh Doman and Gloria Zhao to discuss ⁠Newsletter #362⁠.News● Compressed descriptors (0:34) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club● Improve TxOrphanage denial ...

16 Jul 202556min

Sanket Kanjalkar, Jonas Nick, Tadge Dryja, Steven Roose, and Brandon Black join Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt to discuss Newsletter #361.News● Separating onion message relay from HTLC relay (2...

10 Jul 20252h 19min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Daniela Brozzoni and Naiyoma to discuss ⁠Newsletter #360⁠.News● Fingerprinting nodes using `addr` messages (1:00) ● Does any software use `H` in des...

1 Jul 20251h 8min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bryan Bishop, Robin Linus, and Rene Pickhardt to discuss ⁠Newsletter #359⁠.News● Proposal to restrict access to Bitcoin Core Project discussion (1:1...

24 Jun 20251h 18min

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