Bitcoin Optech Podcast

Feb 27, 2023

Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #239 Recap

Join Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt as they are joined by James O’Beirne, Christian Decker, and Russell O’Connor to discuss Newsletter #239. A full transcript of the discussion is available here. News * Draft BIP for OP_VAULT (1:18) * LN quality of service flag (4:15) * Feedback requested on LN good neighbor scoring (13:58) * Proposed BIP for Codex32 seed encoding scheme (20:27) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange * Why is witness data downloaded during IBD in prune mode? (36:40) * Can Bitcoin’s P2P network relay compressed data? (40:39) * How does one become a DNS seed for Bitcoin Core? (41:18) * Where can I learn about open research topics in Bitcoin? (44:00) * What is the maximum size transaction that will be relayed by bitcoin nodes using the default configuration? (47:55) * Understanding how ordinals work with in Bitcoin. What is exactly stored on the blockchain? (50:07) * Why doesn’t the protocol allow unconfirmed transactions to expire at a given height? (51:00) Releases and release candidates * BDK 0.27.1 (52:44) * Core Lightning 23.02rc3 (53:16) Notable code and documentation changes * Bitcoin Core #24149 (53:57) * Bitcoin Core #25344 (56:10) * Eclair #2596 (58:09) * Eclair #2595 (59:31) * Eclair #2479 (59:45) * LND #5988 (1:00:09) * Rust Bitcoin #1636 (1:00:42)

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