Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #244 Recap

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by René Pickhardt and Christian Decker to discuss Pickhardt’s ⁠Lightning Network channel depletion research⁠. Summary of Pickhardt's research (1:01) Why loo...

12 Dec 202458min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Antoine Riard and Antoine Poinsot to discuss ⁠Newsletter #332⁠. News Transaction censorship vulnerability (0:55) Continued discussion about cons...

10 Dec 202458min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns to discuss ⁠Newsletter #331⁠. News Lisp dialect for Bitcoin scripting (0:48) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange How does ...

9 Dec 20241h 28min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj, Vojtěch Strnad, Moonsettler, Brandon Black, Ethan Heilman, and Dusty Daemon to discuss Newsletter #330.

26 Nov 20241h 32min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt discusses Newsletter #329. News MAD-based offchain payment resolution (OPR) protocol (0:21) Papers about IP-layer censorship of LN payments (3:10) Releases and release can...

22 Nov 202413min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Gregory Sanders discuss Newsletter #328. News Disclosure of a vulnerability affecting Bitcoin Core versions before 25.1 (0:53) Bitcoin Core PR Review Club Ephemeral Du...

22 Nov 202420min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andrew Toth to discuss ⁠Newsletter #327⁠. News Timeout tree channel factories (0:50) Draft BIP for DLEQ proofs (10:53) Releases and release ca...

5 Nov 202428min

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by ZmnSCPxj to discuss his SuperScalar proposal. Why a deep dive? (0:40) Proposal overview (1:58) Importance of reallocating liquidity (4:13) What abou...

31 Okt 202453min