Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Andrew Toth and Dave Harding to discuss ⁠Newsletter #338⁠. News - Draft BIP for unspendable keys in descriptors (0:49) - PSBTv2 integration testin...

28 Jan 202549min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by vnprc to discuss ⁠⁠Newsletter #337⁠⁠. News - Continued discussion about rewarding pool miners with tradeable ecash shares (0:35) - Offchain DLCs (...

21 Jan 202552min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Abubakar Sadiq Ismail, Gregory Sanders, and Daniel Roberts to discuss ⁠Newsletter #336⁠. News Investigating mining pool behavior before fixing a B...

14 Jan 202547min

Dave Harding and Mike Schmidt are joined by Yuval Kogman, Jeremy Rubin, and Steve Myers to discuss ⁠Newsletter #335⁠. News Deanonymization attacks against centralized coinjoin (1:39) Updated Chill...

7 Jan 20251h 37min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, Niklas Gögge, Gloria Zhao, and Rearden to discuss ⁠Newsletter #334: 2024 Year-in-Review Special⁠. January Fee-dependent timelocks (1...

23 Dec 20241h 59min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Dave Harding, /dev/fd0, and Gloria Zhao to discuss Newsletter #333. News Vulnerability allowing theft from LN channels with miner assistance (1:1...

18 Dec 20241h 34min

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