Show Notes
Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Anthony Towns to discuss Newsletter #270.
News
- Using covenants to improve LN scalability (2:07)
Selected Q&A from Bitcoin Stack Exchange
- How did peer discovery work in Bitcoin v0.1? (20:42)
- Would a series of reorgs cause Bitcoin to break because of the 2-hour block time difference restriction? (22:48)
- Is there a way to download blocks from scratch without downloading block headers first? (26:56)
- Where is the bitcoin source code is the 21 million hard cap stated? (28:56)
- Are blocks containing non-standard transactions relayed through the network or not as in the case of non-standard transactions? (31:50)
- When does Bitcoin Core allow you to Abandon transaction? (35:47)
Releases and release candidates
- LND v0.17.0-beta.rc5 (39:07)
Notable code and documentation changes
- Bitcoin Core #28492 (39:54)
- Bitcoin Core GUI #119 (41:13)
- Bitcoin Core GUI #738 (42:49)
- Bitcoin Core #28246 (44:18)
- Core Lightning #6311 (46:30)
- Core Lightning #6617 (47:23)
- Core Lightning #6686 (47:55)
- Eclair #2613 (48:44)
- LND #7994 (50:18)
- LDK #2547 (51:10)
- LDK #2534 (53:01)