Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #394 Recap

About this episode

The episode discusses the highlights from Newsletter #393, including BIP proposals and updates on Bitcoin Core.

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Craig Raw and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #393 . News ● Draft BIP for output script descriptor annotations (1:25) Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange ● Is Bitcoin BIP324 v2 P2P transport distinguishable from random traffic? (35:16) ● What if a miner just broadcasts the header and never gives the block? (39:53) Releases and release candidates ● Bitcoin Core 28.4rc1 (47:27) ● Rust Bitcoin 0.33.0-beta (47:46) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #34568 (48:48) ● Bitcoin Core #34184 (50:37) ● Bitcoin Core #24539 (51:57) ● Bitcoin Core #34329 (54:56) ● Bitcoin Core #28792 (15:35) ● Bitcoin Core #32138 (54:56) ● Bitcoin Core #34512 (56:44) ● Core Lightning #8490 (58:16) ● Eclair #3250 (59:07) ● LDK #4373 (59:55) ● BDK #2081 (1:02:13)

People in this episode

Hosts: Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Mike Schmidt

Guests: Craig Raw, Fabian Jahr

Topics covered

• Bitcoin news
• BIP discussions
• Bitcoin Core updates
• Rust Bitcoin
• Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• BIP324
• Bitcoin Core
• Rust Bitcoin
• Stack Exchange
• Q&A
• code changes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bitcoin Stack Exchange, Bitcoin Core, Rust Bitcoin, Core Lightning, Eclair, LDK, BDK

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