Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #221 Recap

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

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier, Rearden Code, and Pieter Wuille to discuss Newsletter #385: 2025 Year-in-Review Special.January● Updated ChillDKG draft (43:08) ...

24 Dec 20253h 42min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse and Salvatore Ingala to discuss ⁠Newsletter #384⁠.News● Critical vulnerabilities fixed in LND 0.19.0 (0:59) ●...

16 Dec 20251h 12min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Moonsettler and Julian to discuss Newsletter #383.News● Consensus bug in NBitcoin library (1:04) Changing consensus● LNHANCE...

9 Dec 20251h 20min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #382⁠.News● Stats on compact block reconstructions updates (0:34) ● Motion to activate BIP3 (7:26) Selected Q&A from B...

3 Dec 20251h 5min