Bitcoin Optech Podcast

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 Juli 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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Juni 20251h 7min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Eugene Siegel, Chris Stewart, Bram Cohen, and Robin Linus to discuss Newsletter #353.News● Vulnerability disclosure affecting old versions of Bitcoi...

21 Maj 20251h 23min

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Ruben Somsen, Salvatore Ingala, and Stéphan Vuylsteke to discuss Newsletter #353.News● BIP30 consensus failure vulnerability (0:52) ● Avoiding BIP32...

15 Maj 202557min