Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Russell O’Connor, Olaoluwa Osuntokun, and Jeremy Rubin to discuss Newsletter #370.Changing consensus● Details about the design of Simplicity (37:56)...

10 Sep 20251h 5min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss Newsletter #368.News● Draft BIP for block template sharing (0:30) ● Trusted delegation of script evaluation (28:07) Changes to services and client softwar...

8 Sep 20251h 7min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bruno Garcia and Liam Eagen to discuss Newsletter #369.News● Update on differential fuzzing of Bitcoin and LN implementations (24:56) ● Garbled lock...

2 Sep 20251h 8min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt discuss ⁠Newsletter #367⁠.Releases and release candidates● LND v0.19.3-beta.rc1 (0:19) ● Bitcoin Core 29.1rc1 (0:46) Notable code and documentation changes● Bitco...

19 Aug 202523min

Gloria Zhao and Mike Schmidt are joined by Tadge Dryja and Anthony Towns to discuss ⁠Newsletter #366⁠.News● Draft BIPs proposed for Utreexo (1:03) ● Continued discussion about lowering the minimum rel...

13 Aug 20251h 43min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by David Gumberg, Lauren Shareshian, Jameson Lopp, Steven Roose, and Tim Ruffing to discuss Newsletter #365.News● Testing compact block prefilling (1:1...

6 Aug 20251h 56min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Matt Morehouse and Jesse Posner to discuss ⁠Newsletter #364⁠.News● LND gossip filter DoS vulnerability (0:53) ● Chain code withholding for multisig ...

31 Juli 20251h 25min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Davidson Souza to discuss ⁠Newsletter #363⁠.Changes to services and client software● Floresta v0.8.0 released (0:45) ● RGB v0.12 announced (20:38) ●...

22 Juli 202557min