Bitcoin Optech: Newsletter #395 Recap

About this episode

The episode discusses the key points from Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #395, including updates on VTXO verification and Bitcoin Core releases.

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Jon McAlpine, Antoine Poinsot, Mike Casey, and Ethan Heilman to discuss Newsletter #395 . News ● A standard for stateless VTXO verification (1:31) ● Draft BIP for expanded `nVersion` nonce space for miners (1:23:45) Changing consensus ● Extensions to standard tooling for TEMPLATEHASH-CSFS-IK support (13:52) ● Hourglass V2 update (25:40) ● Algorithm agility for Bitcoin (51:15) ● The limitations of cryptographic agility in Bitcoin (1:05:15) Releases and release candidates ● Bitcoin Core 28.4rc1 (1:36:53) Notable code and documentation changes ● Bitcoin Core #33616 (1:38:30) ● Bitcoin Core #34616 (1:42:23) ● Eclair #3256 (1:46:20) ● Eclair #3258 (1:48:34) ● Eclair #3255 (1:50:14) ● LDK #4402 (1:52:27) ● LND #10604 (1:53:56) ● BIPs #1699 (1:55:34) ● BIPs #2106 (1:57:30) ● BIPs #2068 (2:01:28) ● BOLTs #1301 (2:04:54)

People in this episode

Hosts: Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Mike Schmidt

Guests: Gustavo Flores Echaiz, Jon McAlpine, Antoine Poinsot, Mike Casey, Ethan Heilman

Topics covered

• Bitcoin
• Newsletter Recap
• VTXO Verification
• Consensus Changes
• Cryptographic Agility
• Bitcoin Core Releases
• Eclair Updates

Keywords

• Bitcoin
• VTXO
• BIP
• Consensus
• Cryptography
• Bitcoin Core
• Eclair

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Bitcoin Core, Eclair, LDK, LND, BIPs, BOLTs

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